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...online, girls rule. Nearly a third of the eighth-grade girls surveyed reported being bullied online in the previous two months, compared with 10% of boys; 17% of the girls said they had bullied online, but only 10% of the boys said they had. Such stats get an eye roll from teens. "Girls make up stuff and sooooooo much drama," Taylor said (by IM, of course). "Drama queens...
...obsessively on the march through a limited term. Yet scholars had hoped by now for a sense of how Benedict's new station would affect his theology and whether his avid pursuit of heretics as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith meant that heads would roll. Would there be more like Thomas Reese, the open-minded editor of the Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would the new Pope tear into the ecclesiastic "filth" inside his church and the "dictatorship of relativism" outside it that he had diagnosed preconclave...
...planned Aug. 7 return, engineers--to say nothing of the astronauts' families--will be anxiously watching for any change in that assessment. If the shuttle were deemed unsafe to fly, the crew could take refuge in the space station, waiting out the five weeks it would take to roll out and gas up sister ship Atlantis for a rescue mission. But Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle manager, dismisses that scenario as "remote...
...People have asked me whether it is based on this, or based on that, but of course you make your characters compilations. What I try to do is save up all the horror stories I hear about every diva in the world, and roll them into...
...basij are on a roll right now, having organized the get-out-the-vote effort that propelled hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a landslide victory in last month's presidential election. The militia, whose name means mobilization in Persian, was created by Ayatullah Khomeini in the 1980s to recruit young men to fight against Iraq. But a decade later, they took on the role of an official morality police, becoming better known for raiding parties than for raiding the Iraqi front line. June's election, however, marked the first use of the basij as a mobilizing tool in electoral politics...