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...Washington Irving's classic folktale, Rip Van Winkle awakes from a 20-year nap to find his youth behind him, the world radically changed and his assumptions hopelessly outmoded. Schizophrenics roused to reality by clozapine endure much the same jolt. Re-entry is not merely a question of catching up with the arrival of rap music and the end of the cold war. It often means coming to terms with lost dreams: the chance to buy a house, build a career or perhaps start a family. On top of this, patients emerging from schizophrenia must acquire the skills needed...
...McDonald's broadest impact has been through its basic job-training system. Its 8,800 U.S. restaurants (there are an additional 3,600 overseas from Beijing to Belgrade) train American youth of every ethnic hue. "Sending a kid to the Army used to be the standard way to teach kids values, discipline, respect for authority, to be a member of a team, get to work on time, brush your teeth, comb your hair, clean your fingernails," says Ed Rensi. "Now, somehow, McDonald's has become the new entry-level job-training institution in America. We find ourselves doing things...
Fuentes has learned much from both cultures. The son of a Mexican diplomat, he was born in Panama City and spent much of his youth living in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Washington, where he developed an enduring affection for William Faulkner, Franklin Roosevelt and Hollywood musicals. Until he grew up, Mexico remained an almost mythical country, experienced mainly through the memories of his father or glimpsed during summer vacations...
...styled "raptivist" who claims she wants to tear down the white system? Well, not all that unusual. The not-so- little secret of the recording industry is that hip-hop music is a source of enormous profits. For all the claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris...
...feet away from the bustling bakery is the Square's main gathering place for disaffected youth, The Pit, located next to the main T entrance. Some of the leather-clad denizens of The Pit will scowl at you as you walk by. But don't worry about that guy sporting the jacket with "I Kill Summer School Scum!" emblazoned on the back. He probably doesn't mean...