Word: bum
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...family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis was a Marine; Uncle Thomas Hance is on his second tour of duty in Iraq. The youngest of the Terrazas brothers, Andres, 14, says he wants to join the Marines. Martin would have joined too, but a bum shoulder kept him out. Miguel died a Marine on Nov. 19, 2005, in the Iraqi town of Haditha...
...water rafting—and being stuck in a lecture for an hour may make him want to jump out a window,” the elder Melvoin says. The younger Melvoin, however, is anxious to get back to the daily grind. “I feel like a bum after awhile, so I’m ready to start working,” he says...
Players and coaches agree: Matt Vance, Harvard baseball’s starting center fielder, is a real “California guy.” While in some spheres the description might suggest laziness, beach bum-ness, or overuse of the word “hella,” it remains a shining compliment when those who know Vance describe...
...upcoming album of the same name. It begins with ‘Yahu ludicrously un-wrapping his tefillin like a boxer taping up his gloves before a title fight. Don’t forget it kids: he’s the Jewish reggae rapper. He bum-rushes the stage, rocks the appropriately youthful and attractive crowd, and prances around in an Adidas track suit. All of this takes place in the warmest, coziest ghetto you’ve ever seen. Our hero and his gaggle of troubled, but not too troubled, teens get empowered and mimic...
...recreational chemistry also means a lifetime of neglect of overall health--as a recent morning meeting at Odyssey House illustrated. There were too many canes in evidence for a group so comparatively young--the legacy of joints wrecked by years of undertreated diabetes--and too many bad hearts and bum livers and vascular systems fighting hypertension. "This is the first generation to have a high incidence of using recreational drugs," says SAMHSA epidemiologist Joseph Gfroerer. "All this puts them at risk for problems...