Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying their best to patrol the borders of hip, keeping out the pretenders. No sooner was Evan Dando, lead singer of the Lemonheads, identified by MTV as the next sensitive stud-muffin than some anti-fans started Die Evan Dando, Die, an anti-fan magazine. "I have nothing against teen idols. It's just that he was so publicist-ejaculated," says publisher-editor (and most other titles) Jeff Fox. "He was being forced down the throats of the American public as hip, and I couldn't take it anymore...
...activity that has either the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." But Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., said the provision would also forbid counseling of gay students, who he said are up to three times as likely to commit suicide as other teen-agers. "We simply can't do that," he said, calling the amendment "very mean-spirited...
Edina is a fashion publicist -- and fashion victim -- a single mom trying to cope with a teen-age daughter. Patsy, Edina's best friend, is a fashion editor, a stylish bachelorette perpetually seeking a good time. Edina and Patsy shop, vacation and cavort together. And, oh, yes, they sleep around, curse, drink to excess and smoke cigarettes and dope. Lucy and Ethel gone awry, Edina and Patsy are the main characters in Absolutely Fabulous, a wildly successful British sitcom about to make its U.S. debut. Beginning with a 12- episode marathon this Sunday (with weekly reruns of each episode), AbFab...
...years if they refuse. But he too has seen that putting people to work is not enough. Since teenage mothers form the hard core of the welfare population, consuming $34 billion in benefits a year, and are the least likely to climb out of poverty, he has made teen-pregnancy prevention a pillar of his program. He has invited states to cut off additional payments to women who have children while on the dole, a hotly controversial measure dubbed the "family...
Program Director Michael Carrera claims that of the 250 teen graduates there have been only eight out-of-wedlock pregnancies among the girls. Only two of the boys are known to have fathered children. Forty-one percent of those who finish the program go on to college. "The most potent contraceptive you can provide is to help them believe that they are valuable," he says. "Young people who feel that way are rarely irresponsible sexually." Because it works with small numbers of kids who are at least sufficiently motivated to sign up, it's not possible to tell...