Word: teen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuff that they shouldn't block: breast-cancer sites, for instance, and virtually anything having to do with homosexuality. The Censorware Project, which opposes the use by public institutions of these blunt instruments, found that the filter used by the federal court systems in 22 states blocks a Jewish teen site, a Liza Minnelli fan page and a grocery story (I bet chicken breasts is the offending keyword). "Leaving your kid alone in the house with an Internet-connected computer and a censorware product on it is a poor substitute for parental supervision," says Jonathan Wallace, a lawyer who works...
...Seven, starring Brad Pitt, who has become a favorite heartthrob in Iran. Titanic is a huge black-market hit, available only on pirate videos smuggled from New York City and Los Angeles. Boys are walking around sporting Leonardo DiCaprio T shirts, and girls are plastering their bedrooms with the teen idol's picture. Women are for the first time exposing polished toenails in public...
...respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than the packaged pop of, say, teen-oriented groups like the Spice Girls and Cleopatra. And they tend to write lyrics that are more oblique and yet more socially and emotionally relevant than those of gangsta rappers...
Your report was very concise and accurate. It depicted teen life the way it is and not the way parents wish it was. You proved the need for sex education and why it shouldn't be shunned by our educational system. People do not want to believe this is what's happening, but believe me, it is! ROBERT MAEYAERT, age 16 Dickinson...
Your report on teen sex and what kids know was prizewinning material [SOCIETY, June 15]. I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt. The subject of sex is taboo, yet that doesn't keep my hometown from having its fair share of teen pregnancies. Many of the people here with sexually transmitted diseases are teenagers. I know a guy who got a girl pregnant and hasn't yet told his parents, even though the child is already born. He broke up with the girl and continues to have unprotected sex with others. This guy isn't learning from...