Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That sign cost us 2,000 bucks," he boasts. "It's guaranteed for a lifetime, although I don't know whose lifetime. The manufacturer says it's guaranteed against everything but a kid with a rifle." As if on cue, a flat, thwacking sound ends his sentence. It turns out to be the slamming of a golf ball on the golf course George Ade had built next to his house. On the other side of the house is a 63-bed hospital, whose construction George Ade suggested in his will, since everybody knows the only place...
...kid I was fascinated by knights and pageantry," says Actor Matthew Broderick, 21, now in Italy filming Ladyhawke, a medieval love story. Turning myth into filmed reality, however, has been anything but child's play. "The first day of shooting I was asked to ride a horse up a steep hill to a castle; at the same time I was told to hold on to a live hawk with a glinting brown eye," says Broderick, who was last seen on-screen playing WarGames with a renegade Defense Department computer. This time he is a young thief who dashes...
...always sad when a kid commits a crime--it means that something or someone is applying pressure, be it poverty, parents, or peers. At least the town of Brattleboro gave some thought to the question of cause. May be now they'll find some answers...
BRATTLEBORO, VT., is a small town. But the decision the city has made will have big ramifications. If pre-adolescent prostitutes in southern Vermont are victims, then where do you draw the line between victim and offender? At age 18? You can't expect a kid who grows up thinking he can get away with everything to stop breaking the law on his 18th birthday. At certain crimes? Then you give the green light for kids to commit, say, petty theft. At multiple offenses? Even more than the one-time offender, a kid who commits several crimes needs help...
Although Sir Weej, whose real name is Luigi, spends a couple of hours a day hunched over his terminal, he is neither a computer professional nor a thrill-seeking whiz kid. He is just an ordinary citizen who yearns to communicate. Along with tens of thousands of other computer owners who share that urge, Sir Weej has discovered that he can tap into the outside world with his home machine for more than just a peek at stock quotes and airline schedules or an occasional trespass on the turf of the military-industrial complex. Increasingly, as more and more home...