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...Tenth-grader Paul was, as one classmate described him, "a nerd who didn't look like a nerd." Eighth-grader Bill was a nerd who, well, did. But when they met at Seattle's private Lakeside School in 1968, they found a common interest in how things worked, especially computers. They soon became close, hanging out in the school computer center playing--and writing--games. "Part of the appeal," Gates would recall in his book The Road Ahead, "was that here was an enormous, expensive, grown-up machine and we, the kids, could control it." Thanks to Microsoft, the software...
...against a wall. This blocking melodrama comes from an anonymous source in Fifteen Minutes’ (FM) “Blocking Confessions!” Astute enough to align with the Neanderthal in this petty scuffle, the unnamed confessor demonstrates the social savvy of a fifth-grader still bowing down to the class bully—and actually wanting to live with him, in this case...
...There still isn’t the clarity of what a second-grader needs to know,” he said. “Let’s have a national curriculum...
Moore caught Barmore’s eye before she even hit junior high, when she attended camp at Louisiana Tech, near her home town of Monroe, La. Already a standout, the fifth-grader was allowed to play on the eighth grade team...
...Eighth grader Jermaine J. Lewis said he wants to get a feel for life at Harvard...