Word: youthe
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After all, how else to explain the fact that an estimated 13% of 17-year- olds and perhaps 40% of minority youth are considered functionally illiterate? . That less than one-third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently...
LUCIOUS photgraphy, outstanding acting and a story that is touching, if overdone, save Bombay from the fate of most of its genre. Instead of being sappy, the film exudes a combination of sadness and joy. Bombay adeptly combines the kind of lost youth that Francois Truffaut immortalized in The 400 Blows and Small Change with a search for identity like the one Rudyard Kipling chronicled in the novel...
...Youth was a theme of the evening, from the pop music that drowned out television coverage to the hordes of college students who packed the ballroom. State Sen. David Locke (R-Wellesley), speaking just after Bush's victory, addressed his remarks to the younger partyers, saying "You are the future of the Republican party...
...Donnie (Timothy Hutton) and their lumbering pal Lawrence (John Goodman). The story meanders through 25 years of the changing South -- civil rights, women's rights, the capricious kingdom of celebrity -- and ends in 1981, but its moral should catch in many a yuppie throat. The price of pursuing eternal youth is catching it, like a cold you can never shake. Especially for the eternally adolescent male. Games, after all, are what men play with themselves...
...whole movement took off in the 1970s, when two California women [Shields and Sommers], one divorced and one widowed, realized that there were no resources out there for them," says LeClair. "They were too old for youth programs, too young for Social Security. They weren't poor enough for welfare, but they had barely enough money to support themselves...