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...pattern of increase has been reversed. Now the bad: The government's annual survey of 25,500 Americans (who apparently have less trouble than George W. Bush in talking about such things) shows that drug usage is still steadily going up among those in their late teens and early 20s. Some 16.1 percent of people aged 18-25 say they have used drugs in the past month, up from 13.3 percent in 1994. In addition, drug use among minorities increased significantly...
...John Kennedy Jr. never took a simple path to public service. Not at 15, when he and his cousin Timothy Shriver trekked to Guatemala to help earthquake survivors rebuild. Not in his 20s, when he helped devise a program to improve treatment for the disabled that started in gritty New York City neighborhoods and is now being copied overseas. And not when a charity he worked with wanted to know how kids in a drug-prevention program were faring, and Kennedy went to talk with some himself...
...Chauncy St. resident reported seeing a man in his 20s, about 5'4", running through Cambridge Common and Harvard Square with a silver handgun, which he took out of a backpack. The man reportedly fired one round into the air. A .45 caliber shell casing was recovered at the scene...
This is the Sundance you never heard about, nothing at all like the winter film festival, with its annual invasion of flesh-eating Hollywood toads. Every summer since 1981, a handful of wannabe directors (generally in their 20s or early 30s) have been invited to spend a month learning how to make their first feature films in the company of professional actors, directors and other wildlife, namely moose, which can be spotted from the ski lift. This year 3,000 applications arrived for the Sundance June Filmmakers/Screenwriters Lab. All but eight ended up on the cutting-room floor...
...known him since I was in grade school. He taught me pinochle. And when I was in my 20s and he in his 70s, he took my calls when I had doubts about my work or questions about the business of books. Last time I saw him, he showed me a chart on which he had outlined his book Omerta. He joked that I could use it when he was done...