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...There are 70 million 18-34 year-olds, and none of them are invited to participate on the op-ed page,” Haber said. “There is a youth perspective on every issue, there’s no one on the Post’s opinion page, and I don’t think that’s sufficient...
...England, Smith had played soccer at an extremely competitive level for most of his life. He was Framwellgate team captain from 2000-05 and helped lead his Sunderland youth team to a Premier Youth League Championship in 2006-07. Smith was also team captain for a Durham Gilesgate Sixth Form Centre that won a County League Cup from 2007-08, and a member of Durham City AFC, which won the Chairman’s Cup championships in 2008-09—all before arriving in Cambridge...
...Congressional Black Caucus. Tall and brawny, he played football at historically black Florida A&M University, studied law and rose quickly as a young representative in Michigan's legislature. By 2001, he was elected Detroit's mayor at age 31, partly by energizing this city's disaffected youth. His flashy suits, diamond-stud earrings and inaugural "club crawls" proclaimed his comfort with being called "America's first hip-hop mayor...
...last element that attracted attention across the country. "Masturbation Workshops for Adolescents," ran the headline in Que!, a free daily in Madrid. "Extremadura Promotes Masturbation," cried the centrist national paper El Mundo. Criticizing the spending as frivolous, especially during a recession, the Catalan paper La Vanguardia sniped, "Extremadura's youth may have the highest rates of unemployment, but they'll be the best masturbators...
...proponents of the program defend it as a much-needed means of promoting healthy sexuality and egalitarian relationships among teenagers. Laura Garrido, president of the Extremadura Youth Council and one of the officials behind the campaign, is surprised and disappointed by the outcry. "What we're talking about is whether we teach them to have healthy relationships or not, whether they have self-esteem or not, whether they know how to say 'yes' or 'no' at a given time," she says. (Read "The Truth About Teen Girls...