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Considering his wealth of symptoms--lethargy, forgetfulness, loss of interest in friends and studies--can there be any doubt that Holden Caulfield, the dropout hero of J.D. Salinger's 1950s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, would be on Luvox, Prozac or a similar drug if he were a teenager today? No doubt whatsoever. A textbook teen depressive by current standards, Caulfield would be a natural candidate for pharmaceutical intervention, joining a rising number of adolescents whose moodiness, anxiety and rebelliousness are being interpreted as warning signs of chemical imbalances. Indeed, if Caulfield had been a '90s teen, his incessant...
...Five years ago, the debate in my local newspapers was over the formation of the Malcolm X Academy, one of three alternative public schools for black boys in Detroit. Supporters saw the schools as a potential solution to the social problems that disproportionately affect young black men such as dropout, unemployment and crime...
Sporting a three-quarter-length parka, the 14-year-old boy sauntered toward the doors of W.R. Myers High School in Taber, a small town in the Canadian province of Alberta. Someone smirked, "Do you have a gun under there?" He did. Moments later, the ninth-grade dropout whipped out a .22-cal. rifle, killing a 17-year-old boy and critically wounding another...
...Raging Bull and Medical Village preparing to go public and perhaps become the next Lycos or GeoCities, Wetherell's viral growth justifications of wild valuations will continue to be gospel in the Net economy. "David is so confident and so smart," says Bill Martin, 21, a University of Virginia dropout and one of the founders of Raging Bull, a financial Web community half-owned by CMGI. "But he's a guts guy too. When we brought him our idea, he listened, took a conference call and then came back in the room and put 2 million bucks into the company...
...contains a little of everything, from heartbreak to hysterics. In the opening number, we are introduced to six Harvard students making a late night at the Kong. Each has a dark secret that is eventually revealed to the others through fortune cookies cooked up by Kong waiter and Harvard dropout Hei Yiu (Andy Olsen '02). But the road to fortune is a leisurely one, and there are frequent bus stops at the cities of Parody, Satire, and Random Joke. In one minute-long exchange, three of the students list their current assignments in an attempt to decide...