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Espelage focused on students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade, when the problem is most acute. "As kids transition into middle school, they are negotiating new settings, establishing power within peer groups," she says. In this confusing period, denigration of others often proves a successful route to prominence. In boys this generally manifests itself through taunting or threats of violence, while girls are more apt to spread rumors or inflict social ostracism. The study shows bullying tapering off as kids advance into the eighth grade...
...always had to calibrate everything," observes a peer, "find the middle ground between the family code and the times he grew up in." He didn't enlist and head for Vietnam. But "leaving the country to avoid the draft was not an option for me," he explains in his book. "I was too conservative and too traditional." Like many sons of prominent pols, W. found a place in the National Guard, spending nearly two years learning to fly fighter jets. By that time the F-102 was increasingly obsolete, so there was not much chance he would ever be called...
...father's surrogate. "Have you ever worked for your dad and been good at it?" asks a veteran of that campaign. "It gives me goose bumps to think about it. He was just extremely happy. Inside, he was working with his dad, if not as a peer, then an adult; and on the outside, he was giving speeches. He saw the reaction. He was a real success." When he left, he told an associate that it had been the best 18 months of his life...
...trail switches back and forth, and though there may be hundreds of hikers on it, you are often alone, and you can peer over the edge at 2,000 or 3,000 ft. of rock face. And then, when you weary of geology, some folks come trudging along, and you get to switch to anthropology...
Some in the supplement industry are already taking potshots at ConsumerLab.com which publishes its test methods but does not submit its results to peer review, as reputable scientific journals require. But until there is a better system of standards and quality control--the FDA is currently working on such a proposal--the reports of small testing outfits like this one are better than nothing...