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...Psychologists are also frequent doomsayers about teens-none more so than Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. In his new book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like...
...irrefutably warming. This year, for our seventh cover on the subject, we wanted to be more proactive, and so we posed a different question: What can scientists, lawmakers, corporations, communities and all the rest of us do to fix the problem? Our 44-page package, overseen by senior editor Jyoti Thottam, begins by looking at the big picture. Science editor Jeffrey Kluger, with reporting from the U.S., Asia and elsewhere, writes about what's going on in the labs, in the boardrooms, in Congress, state capitols and city halls, even in the architects' studios, where new generations of green buildings...
...this good news about teens raises an old question: Should we now be prepared to reward them with more rights? A new book by a prominent psychologist says we should. In fact, Robert Epstein, Harvard Ph.D., former editor in chief of Psychology Today and host of Sirius' Psyched! program, argues that we should abolish the very concept of adolescence. He's not alone: in 2004, Oxford University Press published The End of Adolescence, by psychiatrist Philip Graham, who argued that British teens deserved more respect and less condescension from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering...
Julia Forgie and Vilsa Curto, who is also a Crimson editor, also won their matches at the fourth and fifth singles positions, respectively...
...Shakespeare wrote, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." I still prefer Letters over Inbox for your letters-to-the-editor column. Vicki Weintraub, AVENTURA...