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What's important is that there are homosexual youth, and their problems are as much of a family issue as alcohol use or peer pressure. Other strips have shied away from such controversial issues. In discussing previous topics as anorexia and teen-age smoking. Lynn Johnston has proven herself a tactful, well-informed writer, and I can think of no one better to address this issue. If, indeed, the propagandizing effect of this comic strip is to be protested, remember that groups opposed to gay rights haven't ever offered to do anything but condemn the good intentions of others...
...Mighty) and secular (Jackie DeShannon's Put a Little Love in Your Heart) with the same innocent intensity. In the lovely title number (written by Mac Davis), the singer watches a 15-year-old girl in love with music, in love with love, and remembers her own long-ago youth. The whole album provides Parton with a dandy career retrospective. She comes full circle to reconsider a lifetime of womanly misbehavin' in the purity of her girlish voice. We're < all grown-ups, she says, and still kids...
...every college student knows, a higher drinking age has had little practical effect on alcohol consumption habits anyway. A 1991 Gallup Youth Survey reports that 54% of 16- to 21- year-olds had consumed some alcohol in the last thirty days-a somewhat lower number than in 1983. Yet the percentage of those who had participated in "binge-drinking" was significantly higher. A test conducted in Washington D.C. by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that with a rudimentary fake ID, an 18-year old could buy alcohol in 97% of the establishments tested. In a similar test...
...memoir cleverly intersperses the narrative of Offutt's wife's pregnancy with the sordid anecdotes of his youth. He sets his fifteen years of wandering against the nine months of expectancy, illustrating the transformation from carefree adventurer to father with well-ordered contrast. The father-to-be balks at the notion of parental responsibility, just as his youthful self fled from the restraints of any long-term career or romance...
Alice Houghton, who directs the youth soccer program, says the league decided to delay the games to preserve the city's fields. "It's a terrible inconvenience," she says...