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...kids, but also to adults,” adds Birnbaum. Hoagland also stresses the popularity of the show amongst his friends. “I have blockmates who think it’s their favorite thing I do all year,” he says. To overstate the extent to which the members of SGCT plan out their performances though, is to completely misinterpret their mindset, they say. “It’s a low-commitment, low-stress thing,” says Hoagland. “We put the show together a couple of weeks beforehand...
...teens' use of all illegal drugs has dropped. The teen pregnancy rate is the lowest since 1976. While some education data could be better, sat scores are up. Finally, I think it's naive to believe that there are cultures in which teens are entirely without turmoil. To some extent, being a teenager means being in turmoil. Read more at time.com/robertepstein London Fog Judging from the published letters that were critical of the European Union [April 16], many British do not feel European and still live in the atmosphere symbolized by that famous headline: fog on the channel; continent...
...often offers tutorials on children’s literature, and this year one senior wrote her thesis on Alcott. Why is there such a deep concern about what children read? Children’s literature seems to have some mythic power of shaping the minds of tomorrow. To some extent this power is real: my conception of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still largely based on its portrayal in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.” And because of the medium’s power, children’s literature...
...extent of al-Qaeda's plotting inside Saudi Arabia, as revealed by the authorities, is impressive, considering the major crackdown on the group that began four years ago after it launched a series of deadly attacks on expatriate housing complexes, government offices and oil sector facilities. "This is a movement that is trying to overthrow the government and the system," says Jamal Khashoggi, editor of the influential Saudi newspaper Al Watan. "Al-Qaeda is not dead. Part of its strategy is to win in Iraq and make it an Islamic state, from which it would launch a campaign to other...
...antagonism among Iraq's sects, about the very nature of Arab society and culture. Those illusions could be sustained as long as you stayed within the protected confines of the Green Zone. As much as any other indicator, the deterioration of security inside this ostensible fortress underscores the extent to which the war has spiraled out of the U.S.'s control...