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...returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then again, a search of the word gay yielded no entries; inexplicably, queer returned 10 pages' worth of stuff. (Note to Lycos: one of the first entries is from a gay adult looking for adult e-mail pals--not child-friendly...
...childhood, and the militant wing of adolescence has brought the possibility home. Recent statistics suggest that 1 in 12 high schoolers is threatened or injured with a weapon each year. And while juvenile crime as a whole is down--down even more dramatically than the already precipitous drop in adult crime--the number of youths murdered by firearms went up 153% from...
...should have had a "loaded-chamber indicator" to make that clear, the family argues, along with "personalized gun" technology that would have prevented an unauthorized user--like the 14-year-old shooter--from firing it. The industry says the problem in the Dix case and others is that an adult should have kept the gun locked up. "The most important device with any gun is the brain of the person using it," says Richard Feldman, executive director of the industry-financed American Shooting Sports Council. "If you shut your brain off, you're in trouble...
...over rumschpringes, commonly known as Time Out. For young men and women anywhere from age 16 to their mid-20s, rumschpringes is a kind of prolonged joyride, one last opportunity for them to romp in the pleasures of the "real world" before time runs out and the church, and adult baptism, beckons. During this period of indulgence, it's understood that teenagers tread, oh, so lightly, into the realm of dating; that the boys are likely to answer the siren call of a well-tuned engine (forbidden to baptized churchgoers); and that a few might even dabble in smoking...
Rumschpringes -- the "wild oats" interludes giving teenagers latitude to party before they submit to the religious strictures of the adult community -- have become the source of a mortal threat to the culture of Pennsylvania's Amish community. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24 (not related) Thursday became the first Amish people ever to be arraigned on narcotics charges, after they allegedly collaborated with members of the Pagans biker gang to deal cocaine and methamphetamine at barn dances for rumschpringing Amish kids. TIME correpondent Nadya Labi notes that while the teenage time out from the conservative Amish culture...