Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the new Radcliffe Institute "the new kid on the block," noting that her institute is so well-known in academic circles that it is known simply as the Institute for Advanced Study--no geographical location required...
Kill them? Whatever. This was just high school ridiculousness--O.K., with an edge, a sharp one, but no one was going to die. The robbers weren't stupid. They were cool kids, campus superstars: Thomas Curtis, student-body president, eagle scout at 15, homecoming prince, a good-looking guy with solid parents, that cute Jenny White for a girlfriend and a nonstop sense of humor, the kind that could always cheer you up. And Ethan Thrower, sweet kid, churchgoer, MVP on the track team, a member of the elite Royal Blues choir, honor roll, yearbook, the whole deal. They were...
...this training has produced a 62-year-old man of appealing parts. He dresses like a banker and has the face of a kid who is ready to be pleasantly surprised. In conversation he remembers every ball he has tossed in the air, and just when you think that a long discourse is about to fall off the earth, he brings it tidily home. His voice lilts upward, giving everything he says, including instructions to his staff, confidence with gentleness. And he is funny--not so much on his own, but he likes to quote the witty things said...
Like most college towns, Gainesville, Fla., home to the University of Florida, is an eco-conscious place. But even here, motivating youngsters to police the environment can be as hard as getting them to help out with the dishes after dinner. Sometimes it takes a kid to inspire other kids to care--a kid like Will Vinson, 12, whose aluminum-can-recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies...
Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...