Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city-sponsored prenatal-counseling program for teen mothers, a state-sponsored housing and community-renewal program and offices for the federal Women, Infants and Children program. Scattered throughout the building, which is owned by the city of New York and managed by the church, are a city mental-health center and a state Stop Driving While Intoxicated...
...mutants, horror comic books and the birth of rock 'n' roll. But that was just kid stuff, the teen taste that eventually took over pop culture. The prevailing tone on '50s movie and TV screens was adult, earnest, upper-middlebrow. Dozens of hourlong teledramas probed modern and historical topics each week. At movie theaters people found that for every social problem, Hollywood had not a solution but a script. Are you looking for the Golden Age of Television? You'll find it in the work of Fred Coe. You want to send a movie message? Call Stanley Kramer...
...White House, meanwhile, has announced that it will try to offset a $50 billion tobacco tax break that Congress slipped into the Federal budget ? by adding another $50 billion on the tobacco settlement. Clinton has also threatened more action against the industry if teen smoking target aren't reached. Not that Big Tobacco is worried ? after all, their customers seem willing to put up with anything...
...Hernandes was shot by Marine Cpl. Clemente Banuelos, on a drug surveillance mission with three other marines, after the goatherder twice fired a .22-caliber rifle at the group and was about to do so again. But Hernandes supporters - and the Rangers - say the teen had been simply taking target practice while herding his goats, and had not seen the camouflaged marines. All military border missions were suspended after the May 20 killing, prompting a re-evaluation of using soldiers to combat drug trafficking in civilian areas. A House immigration subcommittee plans to hold a hearing on the shooting next...
Roar's creator, '70s teen idol turned television auteur Shaun Cassidy, admits that he let his "imagination soar" with the series. What inspired him to set an epic in this period was his reading of Thomas Cahill's 1996 best seller, How the Irish Saved Civilization, a book about Celtic monks who transcribed important Latin texts for posterity. (However, in the first few episodes, at least, no scholar-monks appear...