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...Fatal Infection." In Kathryn Bigelow's bleak, gross, great-looking horror movie Near Dark, an Oklahoma farm lad falls for an alluring blond from parts unknown. She seems interested in him, so why won't she give him a little love bite? Because, as he realizes too late, he will end up with the world's most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near...
...show is less preachy or patronizing than it sounds, and even a bit inspiring, because Mr. Bill just seems to be such a decent lad, a regular fellow from a working-class London suburb, doing his best at raising the conciousness of his comrades-to-be. It doesn't hurt that he also mixes in the sarcasm of a practiced stand-up comedian and several stirring songs about sexual politics...
...love of bullets only slightly ameliorating the annoyance felt towards his mischievous lad, Dewitt was resolved to teach the boy a lesson. Dewitt Jr. was sent back out on his Keds. One hour later, Dewitt Jr. presented the next stack of reels--very good time, Dewitt observed, noting the therapeutic effects of exercise. And this time, the young man's selection was not far off the mark...
...lad was reading restaurant menus at two, got out of high school at twelve, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami at the sagacious age of 14 and graduated from Miami's law school when he was 16. But Prodigy Stephen Baccus had to molder away until the senescent age of 17 before he was able to become the youngest known person ever sworn in as a lawyer in the U.S. After he passed the bar exam this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year...
...18th century by Edward Jenner, a doctor in rural England. Jenner noticed that farmhands who contracted cowpox, a mild disease related to smallpox, did not develop the more deadly disease. In 1798 he inoculated a boy with material from a milkmaid's cowpox sore, then demonstrated that the lad had developed immunity to smallpox...