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...next millennium is not so far off: a child born this year will still be a child, just a teenager, in the year 2000. And judging by the U.S. Census Bureau's newest calculations, that turn-of-the-century teen-ager more likely than not will be a sun-drenched type who goes around chirping, "Fer shure...
...would have been thought outlandish ten years ago. Rafting the Colorado River now seems almost sedentary, and trekking in the Himalayas is no more than an extended outing. Sane and prudent citizens sign up for ice-climbing lessons and for bicycle tours across China. Your neighbor's teen-ager hang-glides. It is hardly worth mentioning when a 50-year-old man or woman runs a marathon, although the triathlon, which may consist of a long swim, a bike race and a complete running marathon on the same day, still raises a few eyebrows...
...movie WarGames, a bright teen-ager uses his home computer to gain access to the key U.S. military computer. Inspired by the film, a group of youths, including Explorer Scouts from a troop taught and sponsored by IBM in Milwaukee, used their home computers to penetrate a dozen computers in the U.S. and Canada. Included were Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles and the nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, N. Mex., both of which insisted that no real harm had been done. As of last week, all that the ten young people, ages...
Many businessmen feel that a private-sector summer job gives a teen-ager more meaningful training than its government equivalent does. Says Ted Bruinsma, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which has co-sponsored "First Break-Give a Kid a Job" for ten years: "This is a teen-ager's first glimpse of the business world. We want the experience to be a real...
...John Landis with National Lampoon's Animal House, Joe Dante with The Howling, George Miller with The Road Warrior and Steven Spielberg with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant's ding-ding-ding-ding theme from the TV show; and Spielberg's Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four-part feature that takes Serling's moral tales into...