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...grade, people warned me that I was going through the hardest time. It was hard—we got graded for the first time, I felt excluded by cliques—but because I went to an all-girls’ school, I never experienced a classroom, cafeteria, or gym with boys...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, | Title: Assigned Seating Next Time | 7/26/2002 | See Source »

...fact that several girls were singing it to one of their male classmates, very troubling. These influences pervade any school, but I see them played out daily before me: on the basketball court where the boys won’t let the girls play and in the cafeteria where the girls tease the boy who is short...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, | Title: Assigned Seating Next Time | 7/26/2002 | See Source »

...much fun, is grounds for moaning and criticism. Why can’t we do long jumps over the coffee tables in the lobby? Why can’t we buy swords at the Renaissance Festival? Do you have to punish me for starting a food fight in the cafeteria? Why do we have to go to bed? Why can’t we hold our breaths until we pass out? I’ve decided that some sick individual must go around America sucking out all the common sense from teenage brains and hiding it in a vault somewhere...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Playing Mom for a Month | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...sorry...those are five reasons to smoke cigarettes. Meat is more complicated. It's a food most Americans eat virtually every day: at the dinner table; in the cafeteria; on the barbecue patio; with mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"--the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare--and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We All Be Vegetarians? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...than 1,100 analysts and clandestine agents. Some 2,500 cables pour into the CTC every day from CIA stations around the world, from interrogators interviewing al-Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and from foreign intelligence services that have tips on terrorists. The CIA's main cafeteria has expanded its hours to feed the center's workers at night and on weekends, so they no longer have to truck in pizzas as they did in the months just after Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Crossroads Of Terror | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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