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...them all. Like the male-targeted superhero books, none of them achieve much more than being amusing but disposable entertainment. The better ones stand out for the quality of the artwork and clarity of storytelling. Miwa Ueda's "Peach Girl" (TOKYOPOP), about the overly dramatic personal life of high-schooler Momo Adachi, seems a cut above with excellent art and slightly more mature themes. For younger readers, Miho Obana's "Kodocha: Sana's Stage" (TOKYOPOP) about a precocious child TV star with trouble at school, has a lot of comedic charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing In the Gals | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...surprisingly big seller for TOKYOPOP is "Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing In the Gals | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Alabama necessarily presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem and the average student boarding at St. Paul’s is not ethnic, but socio-economic or geographic...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: A Balance of the Maps | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...this year’s champion, high schooler Samantha Sawyer: 8,409,600 Minutes

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Minutes | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

Zachary B. Stone ’04, who met DeBergalis as a high schooler at an MIT summer program, is his representative in Quincy House...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DeBergalis Runs for City Council on Student Platform | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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