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...bullies are likely to be among the most popular kids in school, admired by peers and teachers alike, according to a report presented last week at a meeting of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.). "These are the kids that other students look up to, the ones everybody wants to hang out with," says Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who co-authored the study. It defines bullying as persistent teasing, name calling or social exclusion; Espelage did not include overt physical acts, since she found they were rare and typically used by students...
...Woods' targets are balloons and eggs suspended on wires above the V.H.A.'s target range, and he destroys them with ease and confidence. Still, he prefers aiming at live prairie dogs. "We have competitions," he says, "to see who can flip one up onto the barbed-wire fence and hang it there...
...movies" (pause), "Upper West Side" (pause), "drama" (pause). Then, after listening to a long list of films, I had to bark out more commands to get show times. Speaking like a robot and getting lost in a verbal maze was so annoying I was forced more than once to hang...
Cutler chose the 14 students to be a social cross section, yet unfortunately we hardly see the featured minority students in the first episodes. But High is so charming, you'll gladly hang around to wait. Tell your friends to watch. Just don't tell them it's a documentary...
Christian Marty was a fighter. The drive that pushed him to the top of the piloting profession also made him an avid sportsman who would hang glide over volcano craters, ski the most difficult slaloms and who, in 1982, became the first Frenchman ever to windsurf across the Atlantic. "In everything he did, he always wanted to prove to himself that he was as good as the best," says Claude Bouvier-Muller, 71, a retired Air France pilot and a close friend. "Yet he never bragged. It was a personal challenge...