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There are 946,000 children attending New York City schools, and only one of them--an unidentified second-grader enrolled at an undisclosed school--is known to suffer from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the dread disease known as AIDS. But the parents of children at P.S. 63 in Queens, one of the city's 622 elementary schools, were not taking any chances last week. As the school opened its doors for the fall term, 944 of its 1,100 students stayed home...
...besides stunning looks, they both launched their careers by appearing on the cover of Teen magazine (circ. 992,000). Last week Molly Brenner, 13, took a giant step toward joining the list of famous alumnae by winning the magazine's Fifth Annual Great Model Search. The ninth-grader from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will receive, in addition to an appearance on the cover of Teen, a $5,000 modeling contract and a new car. Posing for the camera will be no big deal for Brenner, who has been modeling since she was four months old. "It's fun to be able...
...many radio sports directors demand a Mickey Mouse phone as part of their contracts? Kelly Michelle, for one. The pert, energetic seventh-grader can be heard every Monday morning on Boston's WROR, where her one-minute spot of sports news and scores is broadcast on the Joe and Andy Family show. Kelly Michelle uses only her first and middle names professionally, keeping her last name secret. She impressed the show's hosts when she called in last year and wound up as a regular, telling some of her favorite jokes. When she heard the station was looking...
...SNAPPY ONE-LINERS and strong vocals which open the show set the pace for most of the first act. Take Eddie's classmate Felix, for example, who confesses to having had 2,617 impure thoughts in one week as a second grader. Or the crotchety Sister Lee, who cautions her girls against sitting at a table with a white tablecloth because "it reminds the boys of bed." Such uproarious exchanges between students and teachers find a delicate balance in the meditative, less bawdy musical numbers. The group rendition of "How Far is too Far" treats the issue of sex with...
...thought it was kind of weird for a guy to dance at first," said a tough sixth-grader from Longfellow School. "But our teacher showed us some dancing from West Side Story. And I do break-dance. This is really like street-dancing...