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...part of the Connections curriculum, teen brides and grooms do everything from write vows to plan a honeymoon (sans the sex). The Partners course, developed by the American Bar Association, focuses more on the contractual elements of marriage. Students research custody statutes; a divorce lawyer assists with class. A textbook used in more than 1,000 schools is The Art of Loving Well, which features Shakespeare and D.H. Lawrence on marriage...
...forgetfulness, loss of interest in friends and studies--can there be any doubt that Holden Caulfield, the dropout hero of J.D. Salinger's 1950s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, would be on Luvox, Prozac or a similar drug if he were a teenager today? No doubt whatsoever. A textbook teen depressive by current standards, Caulfield would be a natural candidate for pharmaceutical intervention, joining a rising number of adolescents whose moodiness, anxiety and rebelliousness are being interpreted as warning signs of chemical imbalances. Indeed, if Caulfield had been a '90s teen, his incessant griping about "phonies" and general hostility...
...dark paint. (If you don't have these yet, you're really missing out.) But most of all, my notes record fights that I don't even remember now, crushes that met their unrequited demise, people whose names I barely recognize as former friends--and, like insignificant textbook lines that one later goes back to highlight, the earliest mentions of people who slowly, but only very slowly, became the five or 10 or 15 people who matter...
...Oklahomans, the scene of destruction conjured up the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Much of their state was in textbook chaos: trees in living rooms, roofs blown off, crumpled cars in fields where cows should have been and dead livestock festooning parking lots. But at the big storm's extensive ground zero, the landscape was closer to lunar. Returnees sometimes had trouble locating not just their homes but their neighborhood. In Mulhall, a hamlet north of Oklahoma City, the only store was flattened, the water tower torn down, and every one of the 200 homes damaged...
...MARRIAGE OF A FLEDGLING Internet venture and creative e-mail solicitation, OurSquare.com occupies a position in Harvard's e-commerce scene. Competing with sites like varsitybooks.com (online textbook sales), OurSquare offers a decidedly different product: unabashed elitism...