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...mixture of text and comix, it rewards patience with its involving story that offers plenty of unexpected twists. One of the book's particular pleasures is its caustic examination of the English and French culture clash. The wealthy Anglais who buy property in Normandy but never bother to interact with the natives, short of buying bread and cheese, are held up to scorn, as are the snobby nouveau riche native French who hold the English in contempt. (One point of criticism: the inconsistent style of leaving the French untranslated in some cases and fully translated in others becomes annoying...
...tour in 2002, Green Day had a series of state-of-the-band conversations in which its members resolved to stay together but change everything else. "We didn't do the therapy thing," says Armstrong, "but we talked about the fact that with people outside of the band, we interact like adults. Then we get back together, and it's like, 'Dude, you got a booger!'" Having agreed to retire every lame joke about one another, they moved on to the task of redefining their creative process. "We like each other a lot, which is a problem," says Dirnt. "Because...
...term otaku, which typically describes fans so devoted that they all but lose touch with the rest of the world. Carey sees a metaphor for the otaku in the characters of Mobile Suit Gundam?kids who fight battles from inside giant robots, alienated from everything outside them. As Charley interacts more fluently with the ticket machines on the Tokyo subway than with the people around him, it's not hard to understand what Carey fears. But he's wrong again?a writer for Gundam explains that the kids inside the suits aren't isolating themselves from the world. Rather...
...University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. "It's part of their struggle to construct their own identity." Peter Niebling, headmaster of a high school in Hanover, suggests the trend toward smaller families may play a role. "Many children have no siblings and thus don't know how to interact and coexist with their peers in school," he says...
...reaction was swift. Hürter's head teacher first gave the class a dressing-down, and then told them he would resign if the problem didn't stop. That brought the more severe bullying to a halt, but most of Hürter's classmates still don't interact with her. Not every student can count on such decisive action. Meredith's son Adam, 14 (both mother's and son's names have been changed), attends a private boarding school in the English countryside. Classmates repeatedly pick on Adam for being small for his age and a vegetarian; they...