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Mitchell Johnson, 13, found God at a youth revival meeting last September. "He made a profession of faith and decided to accept Jesus Christ as his savior," says Christopher Perry, the youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro. Mitchell was new to the area, barely two years in town, and looking to fit in. A classmate brought him to Central Baptist, and the church, for a while at least, seemed to provide a haven...
...choirboy gentility. "Yes, sir" was the way he addressed the men, and he was wont to say "Ma'am" when he held out a chair for a lady. He'd been raised right, most folks thought. Only two weeks ago, says Perry, Mitchell Johnson joined up with another youth group to sing and minister at a nursing home...
...false alarm, the exercise proceeded, and Alisha kept moving, lining up at the side exits as prescribed by the drill. The kids, a little giddy at this momentary reprieve from math and English, poured out the side entrance into the midday sun--a steady stream of energy and youth, vulnerable flesh racing straight into a trap of precocious sophistication...
...Prime Minister. He is Sergei Kiriyenko, 35, who had been busy filling in at the job for four days. Kiriyenko is a potential reformer, a petroleum expert who held the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy in the old Cabinet. He's a former communist youth leader and oil-company executive from the reform-oriented city of Nizhni Novgorod. He arrived in Moscow last year, along with Boris Nemtsov, who became a First Deputy Prime Minister. Nemtsov, the former mayor of Nizhni Novgorod, is one of Yeltsin's favorites, and he will probably reappear in a senior post...
Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...