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...youngest of six and a high school dropout, Johnson drifted into gangs for support and identity. Asked why he was shot, he says, "It's a long story," which means someone was out for revenge. Recalling the streets, he tries to cling to some of his former toughness. "I guess I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. "It could happen to anyone." But that's not enough. "Sometimes it's so hard," he whispers. "I get high temperatures and real sweaty, and I get these pains." He breathes on his own through a hole...
...anyone can pull it off, however, it may be Bill Gates. A Harvard dropout who parlayed a single computer program into a software empire, Gates, 37, is the most powerful -- and most feared -- person in the industry. With a personal net worth of $7 billion, he is the richest self-made billionaire in history and was, until recently, the most eligible bachelor in America (last month he became engaged to Melinda French, 28, a midlevel executive in charge of Microsoft's desktop-publishing business). Though Gates is famous for his lack of pretension, his habit of flying in coach class...
While the sides battle it out in court, Houtkin plans to keep his revolution moving ahead, opening new branches and even placing computers in customers' homes so they can ride waves without getting dressed. "This is exhilarating," says 56-year-old Don Traponese, a high school dropout who earns $18,000 a year cutting hair. "I wish I could go to the races and be as successful as I am here." While Traponese has good days and bad days at All- Tech, he estimates that his part-time trading brings in about $12,000 a year. "Brokers over the phone...
...with, the solution is to familiarize them." So misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators to realize that walking into a classroom full of disillusioned adolescents while carrying only good intentions and a textbook full of information about the stock market and other...
...Harlem, deplores the "ungenerous, unforgiving" nature of some abstinence programs. "The way you make a safe, responsible abstinent decision is if you're informed, not if you're dumb." Carrera attributes the success of his program to this more comprehensive approach: in a part of Manhattan with a 50% dropout rate, 96% of Carrera's kids are still in school...