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...displays at the line of scrimmage, where, before the snap, he shouts instructions at everyone but the cheerleaders. Cooper remembers the third grade, when Peyton's basketball coach told him to foul an opponent to stop the clock. Peyton kicked the kid in the gut. Archie recalls another youth hoops game, when Peyton told his coach, "The reason we lost this game tonight is because you don't know what you're doing." Then there was the time he dressed in a red ruffled shirt and tight black pants to tango in an eighth-grade play. "He was dead serious...
...stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...N.S.W., explains to students the concept of business plans and what is needed to succeed. "The first 12 months is the most difficult for any business," says Jenkins, as the eager group contemplates the likely profits from its coming line of recyclable shopping bags. Motivating the town's indigenous youth requires indefatigable vigilance. Estens says there are 20 or 30 key people driving things forward in the Moree community. "There's a lot of horsepower in that group," he says, "and they're getting things done." Zona Moore, who as a teenager joined the Freedom Riders' bus, runs the Moree...
...best ways to break the pattern for wasted youth is a school-based traineeship. The AES has developed a program with the ANZ and Commonwealth banks in regional N.S.W. During their final two years of high school, recruited students work in bank branches in customer-service roles one day a week during term and full-time during holidays. At the end of the program, students gain a certificate in financial services. Some, like Wayne Langenbaker, 17, from Tamworth, are offered full-time jobs. "The traineeship and working at the Commonwealth Bank has given me great confidence," says Langen-baker...
...face it puts on poverty. Poverty is a serious problem, not a lifestyle choice. But “Rent”’s main characters accept poverty as both a necessary byproduct of refusing to sell out and a hip way to spend one’s youth. The characters live their bohemian lives right next to a massive homeless community, but the homeless enter the film—with one exception—only as extras or in rhetoric. The makers of “Rent” understand that homelessness is a problem in Alphabet City...