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...with primary-colored playground equipment of the kind you'd see pretty much anywhere in the West - slides, a plastic jungle gym, spring-loaded hobby-horses shaped like ducks and rabbits. The children's dormitories are further to the left of the garden. Further back are classrooms where the younger children are taught. Kids who reach school age ride bicycles to local schools...
Wade used to claim he treated Seck, his Prime Minister from September 2002 to April 2004, "like a son." The younger man was widely seen as Wade's heir apparent. The breakdown in their relationship - culminating in Seck's seven-month stint behind bars on corruption charges Seck says were trumped up and which were later dismissed by judges - was widely seen as a power struggle between two ambitious politicians. But it also hinted at a generation shift in Senegalese society, repeated throughout much of Africa, where an increasingly restive youth are demanding representation and rights that older, less politicized...
...Communications, which publishes the authoritative trade magazine Impact. David Henkes, from market-trends company Technomic, says affluent boomers in particular are drawn to "the perceived status symbol of liqueurs and are shifting their spending toward the higher-priced products." But what's really driving the category, says Walters, are younger drinkers. They were first targeted by German producer Jgermeister, whose marketing team hired young women to stage promotional events in bars. In 2006 Jgermeister accounted for about 25% of all liqueurs imported into the U.S., Walters says...
...it’s for the wrong reasons—because they read ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and thought it’d be cool, or if they want to network—we keep an eye out for that.” Younger people may turn to Freemasonry in their search for comraderie: in recent years, age qualification for applications was lowered from 21 to 18. “The policy has enabled us to bring in younger members, and that’s an initiative we’re hoping to build...
...time we got started,” she said, “my eldest son had a serious heart anomaly and I got an up-close and personal look at the health care system. My younger son was later chronically ill for eight years and went undiagnosed for six years...