Word: youngsters
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...master them. The companies, which have spent decades deflating the mystique of the sat, take a similar tack with the grade-school exams. They maintain that test taking, like telling time or double-knotting a shoelace, is a "life skill" that every child can learn and no youngster should go without. Says Jeff McCullough, Kaplan's director of training and development: "Kids who have done well...are suddenly slapped with a challenge that is so foreign to them that they underperform just because of the strangeness of the task...
...date, authorities have made 23 arrests in connection to the fires, including a 14- and 15-year-old detained this Friday. Fifteen of the suspects are said to be juveniles, but authorities have said their tender age will earn them no leniency from the law. "Any youngster nabbed lighting a fire will not get off with a warning from a judge," said State Premier Bob Carr...
...Emily (Rain Phoenix). As the updated plot is predictably spun out by scripter Brad Kaaya, your response may be a glum "Uh-O." Best to watch the many ovals that Nelson has cleverly worked into the visual design, and to savor Hartnett's handsomely conflicted turn as a youngster of promise that rancor sours into threat. On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things I Hate About You (a.k.a. The Taming of the Shrew) and quite a bit below Romeo + Juliet...
...Aaliyah's latest album got great reviews but it didn't sell quite as well as many were expecting. The 22-year-old Aaliyah found herself beaten out on the charts by another hip-hop-R. and B. youngster, 20-year-old Alicia Keys. Still, Aaliyah's release garnered some of the best reviews of any album this year. And, despite the fact the Keys' album is pretty good, Aaliyah's was better and more challenging...
...wanted to be a nurse since I was a youngster,” says Fitzgerald, who came to Harvard by default when MGH’s nursing program wouldn’t accept her because she was too young...