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...choose to reserve particular spaces in the program for youth and elderly citizens or for members of the city leadership council...
...best candidate for president. But his argument about the entertainment industry merits careful examination. At the very least, it deserves something far better than the smug, self-satisfied dismissal it has received thus far from the media. If we as a nation care about our youth, we should give serious consideration to any argument concerning their welfare...
...anonymous letter from the disturbed gay man, the flurry of suicides and the tragic murder that occurred here mark a sad increase in the number of troubled youth. Ours is the first generation in history that will, on average, be worse off than our parents'. We're growing up in a world that is significantly more complex, more uncertain and more dangerous than ever before...
...controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
Still, advocates of youth wilderness camps caution that not all programs are created equal. At their best, the camps combine the physical challenges of an Outward Bound-style experience with counseling to help troubled teens who have not benefited by more traditional intervention. At Camp E-Hun-Tee in Exeter, Rhode Island, which is run by Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc.-whose 14 camps nationwide are a model for other wilderness programs-at-risk youths spend as long as a year in the woods. "I'd rather be at home," says a 14-year-old E-Hun-Tee camper, whose...