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Some youngsters figure out early on how to juggle books, work and fun along with long-term goals. Nathan Moore, 17, a senior at Denver's George Washington High School, is in the National Honor Society, participates in the Science Bowl and is already a member of the National Society of Black Engineers. Besides carrying a rigorous academic program and holding down a part-time job designing Web pages, he is on the school swim team. "I get my studying done at school during study hall," he says. "When I get home, I can do other things, like play sports...
...every kid has Nathan's seemingly innate ability to budget his time. Many others are overwhelmed by the intense pressure, and that is when parents need to step in. Caitlin Nish, 17, of Westfield, N.J., baby-sits 2 hr. every day, tutors three students in math 3 to 6 hr. a week, plays sports, belongs to clubs and edits an award-winning high school newspaper. She does homework for 6 hr. till 1:30 a.m. "Sometimes I am about to break into tears," she says. "Just having my mother put her arm around me and say that...
...think I'm taking classes that would be applicable," said Nathan D. Dean '00, an economics concentrator...
...punishment enough, House Judiciary Committee members had to stay behind after class Thursday night while the two sides bitterly debated over whether to call new witnesses to the impeachment inquiry. Offering no explanation, the GOP majority railroaded four new subpoenas -? for Kathleen Willey's attorney, Daniel Gecker; Democratic donor Nathan Landow; Clinton attorney Bob Bennett and White House lawyer Bruce Lindsey. "What's interesting," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney, "is that we still don't know what the Republicans have in mind by deposing them. Do they believe already that these witnesses have something valuable, or is this just...
...rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, in which social issues involving Native Americans remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking as an example in miniature of historical white exploitation of black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel, not travel writing salted with guilt. The author's strong female characterizations...