Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like it used to. I was getting along pretty good and making friends. I went to a party with a bunch of girls and we stayed out late. I walked one home and kissed her good night. But I've never really had what I'd call a serious kiss with a girl. That was pretty much...
...start of every school year, he gives students a letter in which he tells them that he wants to help them excel, but that the real work is up to them. When he talks about his teaching philosophy, he turns serious. "It's not about the answers you get; it's about the questions you ask," says Yates. "I want them to be curious...
...while their classmates are shopping or playing sports, Darrin Cayton, 17, and Gene are in the basement, smoking and riffing on their guitars. Heather Corey, 16, is on the couch, studying. After flunking four classes last semester, Heather has made straight A's this fall, in part through some serious book cracking in Stewart's basement. That probably won't help her make the social A-list at school, but it might do her some good in the years to come...
Adams rises, holding a laptop computer. "We want to do two things here," he announces. "One, we want to have a lot of fun, and, two, we're gonna answer some of the most serious and fundamental things about life." He gestures to the computer. "You look at this, and you realize its a fairly complex piece of equipment. We recognize that someone fairly intelligent designed it. Our bodies and souls are far more complex than this is... The Bible says God created heaven and earth and created us. What do you guys believe? That is the starting point...
...older brother Anthony Morris. "But he died. Some guys robbed and killed him." It happened three days after James' birthday. "I was 15," he says. (He still is.) He was 14, he says, when his father died. When Adams promises to talk about "some of the most serious and fundamental things in life," James is listening. "Now if my pastor [at St. Louis Christian Center in the city] preaches about something, and I don't really understand what it means," he says, "I could go to Young Life for an answer...