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...girl of rosy-cheeked innocence, is among the millions of "Educated Youth" sent to the countryside of China for manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. After inspecting her good behavior, the unit authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate...
...girl of rosy-cheeked innocence, is among the millions of "Educated Youth" sent to the countryside of China for manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. After inspecting her good behavior, the unit authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate...
...only Europeans -- and others who outlaw the private ownership of weapons -- who lay the blame at the door of America's uniquely libertarian gun laws. Gun control understandably becomes a mantra for Americans seeking to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. After all, many societies face problems of youth violence; while it doesn't address the root causes of that violence, making weapons inaccessible effectively contains the damage. "Youth violence is on the rise across Europe," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But you don't have this kind of mass killing because it's hard for even...
...October kick-off event was a weekend retreat to a youth hostel in Littleton, Mass., in which participants created art projects and went rock climbing. On May 1, program participants will embark on a daylong canoe trip down the Charles River...
Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...