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Fifteen minutes before the service starts, 100 middle schoolers are already squeezed into a basement rumpus room. The weekly worship for middle schoolers at Grace Chapel in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mass., is called the Edge, a fitting name for a gathering that appears to be on the brink of anarchy. In one corner girls pouring orange juice giggle contagiously as the juice spills on the table, carpet and doughnuts. In another corner a number of boys are exploring ways to injure themselves with folded metal chairs--like swinging them at one another. A soccer ball zips past...
Like many of her friends at the nondenominational Grace Chapel, Shea has a routine that includes morning, meal and bedtime prayer as well as daily "devos," or devotionals, a sort of scriptural homework. She says the regimen is paying off. "One thing I think God did do for me was to give me my own room [in the new house]," she says with a smile. "It's a bit of privacy God gave me to be alone more with him," she adds, "and get away from my sister...
...Grace Chapel's senior pastor, Bryan Wilkerson, says a key factor in reaching kids like Shea is the youth of the middle school pastors--most of them volunteers in their 20s. "We know that 13-year-olds are going to move away from their parents," he says. "The question is, Where are they going to move to? In the youth pastors, they see people who drive jeeps and love Jesus...
...early 1990s, the age at which a girl got her first period dropped by about one month every decade, to 12.1 years for black girls and 12.6 years for whites. While that may not sound like a lot, says Marcia Herman-Giddens of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been studying the onset of puberty in American children for more than a decade, "there's no evidence that the age of menses has stopped falling. When will it stop? When girls are 9?" There is no consensus about the cause: some scientists blame exposure to certain...
...words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Opponents also fear that extending one privilege would open the door to granting other benefits now reserved for legal residents. "The other side is afraid this is the beginning of something more," says Josh Bernstein, of the National Immigration Law Center...