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...April 18, Taylor, who is about to enter eighth grade at Lost Mountain Middle School in Kennesaw, Ga., got an instant message (IM) from her friend Sydney Meyer that said, "OMG [Oh, my God] OMG OMG go to your xanga." Someone using the screen name lmmsgirlsgot2hell had left Taylor a comment that read, "Go to my Xanga, bitch." Taylor did--and found a List of Hos. Her name was on it. The list was hurtful, but Taylor says she wasn't as bothered as other girls. "A bunch of the cheerleading chicks spazzed," she says. "Me and all my friends...
...pick on one another. If parents and teachers think it's hard to control mean girls and bullying boys in school, they haven't reckoned with cyberspace. Cyberbullying can mean anything from posting pejorative items like the List of Hos to spreading rumors by e-mail to harassing by instant message. It was experienced in the preceding two months by 18% of 3,700 middle schoolers surveyed by researchers at Clemson University. Their study is scheduled to be presented at this month's American Psychological Association meeting. The phenomenon peaks at about age 13; 21% of eighth-graders surveyed reported...
Being a cheerleader is no longer an instant ticket to popularity, as Katie and her best friend, Lauren Wyble, 13, discovered this year when old friends started criticizing them. "Cuz I'm a cheerleader, most of my friends call me a prep," says Lauren with a mournful look. "People make fun of you for being one," Katie explains. "My mom says they're just jealous and to ignore them, so that's what I try to do." But Lauren is hurt by the attitude of old friends who now resent her devotion to the sport. "I just tell my friends...
...girls, the central action is their social lives and the intensity of their feelings. No matter how much a girl and her friends are torturing one another with gossip in school or instant messages from home computers, she is convinced that if you knew what she was saying, you would disapprove or, even worse, try to interfere and make a bad situation uglier...
...lucky at that instant too. Had Tsuboi been any closer, he would have been incinerated, as roughly 100,000 other residents of the city were that day. No one within a half a mile of the blast survived; in the immediate vicinity, just the shells of two buildings were left standing. So shocking was the destruction that U.S. occupation authorities, who would run Japan for the next 61/2 years, seized the film of some 30 Japanese newsreel photographers who had arrived some days after the bombing to record the destruction. The Americans, fearful of inciting rebellion even after formal surrender...