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...best known writers travel across the country to document and observe areas and communities that are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis - transgendered men and women of the "hijra" community; sex workers and their families in Mumbai; truckers who spend most of their lives on the road; the disaffected youth who have turned to injectable drugs; and homosexual men whose lifestyle is criminalized by Indian...
Author Beth Teitell has decided to take on the malady that often afflicts American women: "Fear of looking our age." Teitell, who is 47 ("the youngest I'll ever be again in my life") and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth - the Botox Industrial Complex - for her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth (William Morrow). TIME Reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Teitell by phone at her home in Boston...
...really to me the take-home message - is that there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to look younger. But the good news is that it's possible and actually relatively easy and inexpensive to appear more youthful. Is your posture good? Are you physically fit? Is your hair nicely cut and groomed? Are you wearing current clothing? Basically, you want your age to recede as an issue, not become the issue. Another thing I learned is that people are willing to forgive a lot if they like...
...recently El Paso, Colo. (Colorado College), issued warnings that were off-putting if not outright alarming: students who register in their college town could be ineligible to be claimed as dependents on their parents' tax returns and might be in danger of losing tuition scholarships. The problem, according to youth-voter advocates and the IRS, was that these dire warnings were incorrect. After widespread outrage, the registrars backed off. But experts worry that the resulting confusion could sour first timers on voting altogether. "It's creating somewhat of a chilling effect," says Steve Fenberg, executive director of the youth civic...
...Legal misunderstandings are one thing, but some registrars seem to make political decisions about whether students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile...