Word: teens
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Nowhere is the discussion of emotional intelligence more pressing than in schools, where both the stakes and the opportunities seem greatest. Instead of constant crisis intervention, or declarations of war on drug abuse or teen pregnancy or violence, it is time, Goleman argues, for preventive medicine. "Five years ago, teachers didn't want to think about this," says principal Roberta Kirshbaum of P.S. 75 in New York City. "But when kids are getting killed in high school, we have to deal with it." Five years ago, Kirshbaum's school adopted an emotional literacy program, designed to help children learn...
...guess is that as kids get older, as they move into their teen years, they really do need a sense of privacy," Hafrey says...
...both sides understood that. No one thought it was a perfect bill, but it would have been really hard to vote against it." Still, some Senate conservatives promise to fight to draw the final version closer to the House plan, which would flatly ban cash welfare for unwed teen mothers and end it for women who have more children while on the rolls...
...claiming he had watched a teenager sell marijuana outside a local high school, had followed him into the restaurant and had seen him hand a roll of cash to Morris. The officer said he saw Morris hand back a brown paper bag. The officer said he then followed the teen to the street and bought some marijuana, which the teen pulled out of the bag. After breaking down the door of the steak house with a sledgehammer, officers said they found marijuana there and arrested Morris. Based on the sworn testimony of officer Steven Brown, Morris was convicted of drug...
...greatest fear of the tobacco industry, of course, is that the new moves on teen smoking are just opening skirmishes in an assault on smoking by adults as well. Though Clinton denies this, the Administration is being lobbied to go even further. Officials at the A.M.A. would like to see a total ban on tobacco advertising. At the same time, they want politicians to refuse money from tobacco PACS and believe that medical schools and other research organizations should refuse all funding by tobacco companies. "No right-thinking individual can ignore the evidence" about nicotine addiction, an A.M.A. report proclaimed...