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...year-olds reported that they drank at some time in the previous month; now that figure is barely 20%. For kids 18 to 25, the stats fell from 75% to 60%. Still, the persistence of youthful drinking is forcing a new generation of parents to confront the dangers alcohol poses to their children and to contemplate the quandary of how to protect against the worst excesses...
...puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip the porch talk, one day, after catching my daughter in her first big spree, I'll have to confront her about lying to me about liquor while knowing inside that I've been lying about...
...have worked with the Europeans. They're now resigned to the U.S. building it, and if at Wednesday's meeting with NATO leaders the key European players didn't exactly embrace Bush's concept, they at least began talking about the need for a new strategic framework to confront new threats...
...designing the Jewish Museum, Libeskind's biggest challenge was melding the old and the new, not just physically (the museum is an extension of an elaborate 18th century Baroque structure), but also psychologically. Says Libeskind: "I thought one had to confront the issues of continuity, tradition and the New Berlin - what happened and what can happen in the future...
Taken as a whole, such global events underscore the increasingly important presence of the United States within the global community. But, as Nov. 7 draws near, they also highlight a host of challenges that will confront our next president. Without Congress as a buffer, the president must handle global issues at the most intimate of levels. Such interaction requires a brand of leadership that can both bridge nation-states and acquiesce heads-of-state...