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Until last year, Kei Murrell, 13, like most other girls at Mendocino (Calif.) Middle School, considered the school's computer room to be a male preserve, a place where boys talked in programming jargon and played war games. While Kei and her friends were free to use the machines, they...
"Dick Button was way ahead of his time," Wylie, his modern successor, says. "He was doing triple axels before people were doing all of the double [axels]. (A triple axel, by the way, is an ice skating maneuver in which the skater jumps off a single blade and completes two...
The Senate finally hit upon a solution to the problem of financing: ignore it. By an overwhelming vote of 97 to 2, the upper chamber approved a $1.4 billion drug measure that would boost penalties for pushing drugs and beef up federal narcotics enforcement on a broad front. Just before...
And then the motion began, just as the sun was rising, a swelling like a mass exodus or military maneuver or demonstration, a convergence.
Hurtling down two streams of time, the '50s and the '80s, the book displays all the author's patented tics and tropes. The Beautiful Losers: a black, a homosexual, and -- among others persecuted in adolescence and now called home to disinter a buried memory -- a stutterer and an abused girl...