Scruggs rose to prominence when Bill Monroe hired him to play in the Blue Grass Boys, one of the defining groups in the bluegrass musical genre.

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Habibie, the research and technology minister and long one of Suharto's blue-eyed boys.

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And as I watched the Rockets slowly pull away from the hometown boys in blue, it occurred to me that Jeremy Lin undoubtedly made the right decision in pulling a Steve Miller Band.

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Japanese school uniforms bear an uncanny resemblance to the military outfits of 19th-century Europe -- high-collared Prussian-style tunics with brass buttons for boys and pleated navy blue skirts, white blouses with matching scarves and short white socks for girls.

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At the 23 week scan we knew we were having boys and painted their room blue bought clothes, cots, bedding etc and named them Jacob and Ethan.

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One is 11-year-old Hussein Abdul Zahara, who looks like so many other boys his age -- right down to the blue soccer uniform and the wrap-around sunglasses.

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