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...boisterous first- and second-graders of CAL Elementary School suddenly turn silent when Kara Pralle strides into the room. She commands a level of respect that even veteran teachers envy. One reason is that she is a high school senior and part of a group that teaches elementary students about the dangers of smoking. Today is National Kick Butts Day. "Who's going to kick butts and not smoke?" Kara asks the children. All 32 hands shoot up. After her 10-minute spiel, she doles out lollipops and temporary tattoos to help them remember her visit. But it also helps...
...more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating the gross acts of carnage they've seen reported in other places. On the day that he brought to school a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun that he had stolen from his grandfather's desk drawer, Brazill boasted to a classmate that he would be "all over the news...
...Plays host at a dinner at the White House for Derek Jeter, Tom Glavine, Cal Ripken, Yankees manager Joe Torre and others; for dessert he serves cookies shaped like hot dogs and miniature containers of french fries...
Meanwhile, someone forgot to tell Microsoft that recruiting by tech companies was down. Microsoft has always competed ferociously--no surprise there--for the brightest young minds. That has meant fat offers for students like Neel Murarka, a Cal Poly computer-science major who accepted a $70,000 starting salary--plus a signing bonus and stock options--to join a Microsoft team that will develop new software from the ground up. Antitrust troubles or not, Microsoft is still a cool company, and it wooed Murarka and other hotshot prospects with an all-expenses-paid visit to Hollywood, capped off by tickets...
GUNPLAY OVER FOREPLAY In the competitive world of defensive lingerie, Paxton Quigley, author, self-defense activist and former Yoko Ono bodyguard, stands out for designing the latest in brassiere empowerment. The SuperBra features a strategically placed holster that accommodates a .38-cal. revolver or a canister of pepper spray. Says Quigley: "People say that once they get used to the idea of carrying a gun between their breasts, they forget they're even carrying...