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Many are expressing concern about these trends, and they are taking actions to stop it. The food and Drug Administration, led by Harvard Medical School graduate David A. Kessler, has called for new regulations to reduce youth smoking by 50 percent in seven years. In January it will consider whether new regulations should be placed on tobacco advertising. And this past September, California state health officials unveiled a new anti-smoking media campaign directed at youths...
...council also approved a bill endorsing a "Youth Vote" conference to be held in the spring, which is designed to encourage college students to vote...
...county was fighting a lawsuit by public-interest groups over a bureaucracy so lax that many abused children were not even visited once a month, the state's legal minimum. "Kids were dying because they were not adequately supervised," says Carole Shauffer, director of the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. "Foster parents had to make do with 'drive-by visits': they would bring the kids to the curb, because caseworkers didn't have time...
Terkel also delved into the problems of young Americans, worrying about the new oxymoron of "conservative youth...
...importance of history was Terkel's recurring theme. "There is no past among the youth. How can they be put down if their history has been deprived of them?" he asked...