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Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when juvenile delinquents were called juvenile delinquents, youth gangs stuck close to home and defended their turf against invasion by other gangs. No more. The age of the mobile youth gang has arrived. Striking out from poorer neighborhoods, they are fanning into wealthy areas...
It is this naiveté and ineptitude coupled with less openness in American society generally about birth control that, according to Guttmacher researchers, constitute one of the most striking differences between American adolescents and their European peers. In Sweden teenagers are sexually active even earlier than they are in the U.S...
The most striking achievement of this don't-rock-any-boats policy is a deal signed with Britain a year ago under which Peking in 1997 will assume sovereignty over Hong Kong on a pledge to maintain Hong Kong's wide-open, laissez-faire capitalist system for at least 50...
As striking as the transformation of China into a power dedicated to stability has been, it is economic rather than foreign policy that will determine Deng's place in history. He has staked everything on the success of his economic reforms, arguing that whatever their theoretical justification or lack of...
Xu's outlook could be a mantra for today's postideological China. What is in some ways most striking about the country, as new middle-class consumers flock to shopping malls, is how normal it feels. Although billboards celebrating the glory of the Communist Party can still be found in...