Word: youthe
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...Denver, for one, is determined to head off a reprise of last year, when a string of vicious youth crimes unhinged the city's calm. The upshot is an activities budget of $6 million, twice the amount allotted a year ago. Recreation programs -- from swimming and camping to video production -- have grown from 900 last year to 1,300 this summer...
Learning to Change. Sometimes young people have been so deprived of positive activities that they need coaching when they are about to enter unfamiliar work environments. In Las Vegas, Jocelyn Oats, youth coordinator at the Nevada Partners program, starts sessions by having everyone fold a napkin. "When they are done, they see that everyone folds them differently," she says. "I make them do this so they will understand that their employer may want them to do things differently than they are used...
...trilingual ... He reads Proust in the original French, and he has even studied architecture ... he taught himself Spanish ... From his youth as an Eagle Scout to digging ditches for Pacific Gas & Electric in high school to working as a janitor for the San Francisco school system, he has shared in the American experience, and he has been affected by it." -- Senator John Kerry (D-Mass...
...southwest of Pyongyang. The family had settled there after Kim's great- grandfather, a tenant farmer, was assigned by his rich landlord to keep up the owner's family graves. Those plots have been replaced by shrines to the genius of Kim Il Sung, as much of Kim's youth has been replaced by legend. At the age of 17, for example, he was supposedly teaching fourth-graders the basic doctrines of Marx and dialectical materialism. Little is said about his family's move to Manchuria, which was then occupied, like Korea, by Japan. The truth would not have been...
Books: Impresario Lincoln Kirstein's gilded youth...