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...dropped that blew me up. (Cleland lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.) And then a year and a half ago, I found out it was the guy getting off the helicopter behind me who dropped the grenade. I consider what happened to Bob to be a freak accident of war, and he has had to live with that just as I have had to live with what happened...
...clues—and perhaps the only way to make sense of Soman’s disappearance—involve the state of his dorm room when HUPD arrived. “We’ve heard from his friends that Soman wasn’t exactly a clean freak. But the room was spotless—the garbage emptied, all the clothes hung up, everything in its place. No fingerprints, footprints or trace of a human presence. He must have completely cleaned and dusted the room before he left. Only two things were out of place...
...Joey Ramone Joey was a gangling glandular freak with skin like milk, thin but with wide, girlish hips, topping out at 6'5" or 6'6". He was probably the oddest-looking physical specimen to ever front a successful rock band. He never looked healthy, always pasty and white like something hidden from the sun for a long time...
...Paul Reubens, though, the guy is within driving distance of normal. He's not the greasy, bearded freak from the infamous mug shot or the manic wad of frustration that is Pee-wee but a mellow, slyly funny 48-year-old whose oddest obvious quirk is that he's trying--and succeeding--at coming off like a 30-year-old. He has shaggy, jet-black hair with bangs, wears a horseshoe-embroidered black Guyabara and jeans and has a freakishly creaseless complexion. And he has proved his ability to pull off non-Pee-wee characters over the past few years...
With middle or high schoolers, parents need to avoid two danger zones: the "freak out" and the "big talk." Sixty-one percent of teens in the Kaiser study said they don't confide in their parents because they don't want to worry them. Parents need to demonstrate that they can listen to their kids without judging them and answer questions calmly and without lecturing. The car is a good place to talk with teens because it isn't too face to face. Parents shouldn't wait for their children to take the lead. Adults can use recent events...