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Sometimes a scavenger hunt is just a scavenger hunt. That's all it is at many churches, where the frenzied chase to collect trinkets and complete silly tasks is a perennial activity aimed at getting teenagers into their doors. But at Calvary Baptist Church in Bellflower, Calif., a scavenger hunt is also a metaphor for the lifelong pursuit of meaning and happiness that begins in adolescence--and rich grist for a sermon targeted to teens. "A scavenger hunt is a search," youth leader Doug Jones, 20, tells the 80 teens who have just returned from a race through this working...
...over "The YouTube Election" (as the New York Times dubbed it), Web video has not proved to be a persuasion tool. It is an opt-in medium: you have to seek out videos or click on an e-mail link, whereas TV ads crawl through your cable line and hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that we disagree with. So YouTube has mainly been useful for embarrassing enemies (popularizing Senator George Allen's macaca campaign-stump slur...
...knowledge, vocabulary and scrapbooking skill. The bricolage of old photos, handwritten lyrics and musings include Love's teen aspirations-- "I have a rage for success"--and juvenile group- home reports. The rocker-widow- provocateur writes to her dead spouse about their daughter's teacher and describes an Easter-egg hunt at Liz Taylor's house. "I love being famous," Love says. "Because no one else has it. Because it's psychicly [sic] charging. Because...
...herself to the U.S. border patrol after she illegally leaves the country with Susan’s kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their parents or the provincial police who hunt them. Iñárritu also introduces us to Chieko, the deaf-mute Japanese teenager whose absurdly tangential connection to the events in Morocco inexplicably serves as the movie’s narrative climax. Luckily, Iñárritu’s characters don’t have...
...Really Big Catch Iceland resumes whaling Hey, Ahab! Breaking a 20-year global moratorium on commercial whaling, Icelandic authorities plan to begin issuing licenses to hunt 40 minke and endangered fin whales through next August...