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...version of White Christmas. "We'll have Christmas anyway. It'll be better next year," he says. The family is still only a paycheck away from homelessness, but they have acquired some valuable lessons. "I used to look at homeless people on the street and think, 'Man, what a drunk bum,' " says Bobby. "But shoot, man, you never know." It's made Nicole want to stay in school. "I should have a job," she says, "so I can grow up and be what I want to be and have a house to live...
Live, from anywhere, it's Friday night: time for the youth of America to "rage." Time also to get broasted, buzzed, catatonic, messed up, ripped, screwed, trashed, wasted, zoned out. Time, to put it in language older folks can understand, to get totally, hopelessly drunk. Not at bars, of course: everywhere in America you have to be 21 to drink there -- legally, that is -- and anyway it's not the hip thing to do. These days teenagers buy into keg parties at homes where parents have left town for the weekend, where dangerous chugalug games are played to get booze...
...which they were riding went out of control while it was speeding late at night on a deserted street in the Bronx. The 18-year-old driver, who had only a learner's permit, had consumed more than twice the amount of alcohol required to qualify as legally drunk. In 1989, according to the National Traffic Safety Administration, 3,539 deaths in the 15-to-20 age group resulted from traffic accidents in which alcohol played a part...
Where it often begins is at home -- without adult monitoring. Large unsupervised parties where kids drink to get drunk as fast as possible are regular weekend happenings for many American teenagers. And parents who grew up in the drug culture of the late '60s and early '70s often look the other way. "I know they are drinking in the basement, but I never go down there," admits a mother of Washington teenagers. "If anything happens, my excuse is that I don't know what they are doing...
...second year in a row, President Bush has worked with the Harvard Alcohol Project in taping a variety of television announcements urging against drunk driving...