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...known fondness, during a break at Google's recent sales conference in San Francisco. Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot. Schmidt seems too grownup for this...
...WERE YOUR BIG COMIC INFLUENCES? My biggest by far?besides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humor?was Robert Benchley, a humor essayist. I always wanted to write like him. He was silly, and that appealed to me, that a grownup could be that silly and get away with...
...conveyed to tens of millions the impression that he was just a regular guy who was dating Brooke Shields -- but then came the summer of disaster. Charges of child molestation, criminal inquiries, an abandoned world tour, lawsuits, drug addiction, a bizarre disappearance and mysterious return have brought real- world, grownup horror to the owner of Neverland Ranch -- horror he eventually had to confront. In a four-minute televised statement broadcast around the world from Neverland last week, Jackson, voice quivering, called the sexual-abuse allegations ''disgusting,'' declared his innocence and said, ''I do try to be Godlike in my heart...
...hear John [Lennon] in my head," says McCartney. "I'll think, O.K., what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve. And one of the good things about working with Nigel is that he became more of a co-worker rather than a grownup producer. His opinion mattered to me in a way that made me want to impress...
Along with grownup responsibilities, K-8s tend to offer the occasional--and still wanted--hug from a teacher, says Dr. Lottie Smith, a K-8 principal in Milwaukee. "In middle and high school, that's a no-no. We don't touch," says Smith. Middle schools were originally intended to be nurturing places, but it hasn't been easy to pull that off, says Harry Finks, a veteran middle school teacher and principal, who wrote one of the first handbooks for middle school staff: "You want to create a dialogue, so that an eighth-grade boy can come...