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...couldn't help drawing parallels between America's First Lady enthusiastically organizing an evening in Washington where successful women could mingle with girls to help support the aspirations and diverse potential of a small segment of America's youth, and the private parties reported to have been hosted by Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi, where young Italian women were encouraged to sing and dance, grooming them for a career in show business, or maybe politics. After all, what's the difference? Makes you wonder what is to become of Italy's young female population. Catherine Minciotti, MONTEFIASCONE, ITALY...
...lambasting that authorities received both domestically and overseas when news broke recently that starting July 1, all computers sold in China would be required to have pornography-filtering software pre-installed. The news caused outrage among Chinese computer users, many of whom complained that the software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was ineffective and would expose users to viruses and hacker attacks. Meanwhile, a U.S. company, Solid Oak Software, alleged that the program had illegally incorporated parts of its proprietary software...
...forums and billboards following the June 19 airing of a program critical of Google on CCTV. China's "human-flesh search engine" - a vigilante Internet mob that discovers the identities and publishes personal details of those who displease netizens - also swung into action. The group claimed that a Beijing youth, depicted in a CCTV program as a university student who had mounted an anti-Google campaign, was actually a CCTV staff member...
...front of a painting of a knight, Prince Oleg with Igor, which Glazunov had completed in 1973. Then he offered his critique that the sword in the painting was too short. "It would only be good for cutting a sausage," Putin said. (See pictures of Putin's Patriotic Youth Camp...
...while youth unemployment is high, more telling to Sum are youth employment numbers, which show that less than 1 out of every 3 teens currently has a job, the lowest number since 1948. This statistic helps explain why Sum thinks the program isn't going far enough. Sure, $1.2 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs sound huge, but it will bring teen unemployment down only a few percentage points - and only for a few months at that. If the point of a summer-jobs program is partly to train the uninitiated in the ways of the working world...