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Word: yorke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some behavior has been delinquent. A six-year-old logged on to a Pokemon website and printed counterfeit copies of the cards to trade with gullible schoolmates. Other behavior can be criminal. Last week a nine-year-old boy on New York's Long Island stabbed an older schoolmate in a dispute over cards. A principal explained why her school, like many others, was banning Pokemon cards: "Children who don't have Pokeman cards feel left out. When children bring the Pokeman cards into the lunchroom, they often spend time looking at the cards instead of eating lunch." A group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...With reporting by Lisa McLaughlin/New York and Sachiko Sakamaki and Hiroko Tashiro/Tokyo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Reported by Georgia Harbison/New York and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...suburban Rochester, N.Y., a baseball jock who often attended regional-theater productions with his mother. "When I was in, like, seventh grade, I saw Robert Downey Jr. in Alms for the Middle Class," he recalls. "I loved it. Loved it." High school acting led to drama school at New York University, off-Broadway theater and, finally, Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Margins | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Next year Hoffman will portray his first romantic lead in David Mamet's State and Main, opposite Rebecca Pidgeon, but he scoffs at the notion of Hollywood stardom. He will, he says, continue living in New York City, doing theater (he'll make his Broadway debut in a revival of Sam Shepard's True West in February) and worrying about his love life. "I date," he says. "But it's a nightmare. You're traveling all the time. I gotta figure it out, because I want to get married and have kids someday." Listening, Amy? There's still time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Margins | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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