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Girls who suffer from the rare genetic disorder known as Turner's syndrome are a little shorter than average, have a thicker neck and usually can't have children. Otherwise, there's nothing especially striking about them--except that often they're socially inept. They butt into conversations. They misread facial expressions, tones of voice, body language. They're insensitive to others' feelings...
...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...
...Hang Newt Gingrich pinatas, provide a bat and whack for candy. To influence policy, call out the "dorm-storming" troops--activists who knock on college doors and urge students to E-mail their legislators. "We communicate in a different way," Werbach says. "We can sit here bemoaning Beavis and Butt-head, or we can learn from their appeal. A lot of people get all their news from MTV. We don't reach them with coffee-table picture books, fireside chats and the New York Times editorial page." Werbach hired a graffiti artist to design posters of the Statue of Liberty...
...Coach Butt is a great guy who is coming into his own as a coach," Shregalis said. "He has devoted himself to the Harvard lightweights and really knows how to make boats move. In the past three years I have been with him he has really learned and improved...
...team is looking strong and has been getting faster over the last couple of weeks. Coach Butt has again prepared the team for a challenge from Yale and Princeton, even for the possibility of being coachless if a child is brought into the world--he and his wife are expecting...