Word: youths
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Gauger has spent much of her life in motion. As a youth she traveled through North and South America with her father, a chemical engineer. Her childhood ambition was to become a foreign correspondent, but her economics degree from Swarthmore led to a job with TIME as a New York-based researcher in the Business section. She later moved to the news service, where she kept track of colleagues' travels, and eventually be came a reporter in the New York City bureau...
...Youth proved the key last night as four members of the Harvard varsity wrestling squad moved into the semifinals of the Coast Guard tourney in New London, Conn...
...Jihad of revenge that swept through Europe (Jihad! April in Paris!") in the late '80s world. ("4/7/87--Sheik Ali Fayadh Mahim was arrested in Beverly Hills today for trying to pass a bad emerald at Gucci's.") China, racked by hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated 40,000 tons of people...
Politics still counts, however, "A very high percentage at P.U. are at least Communist Youth members if not Communist Party members," Wen says. "But some of the Party members I've met are among the least revolutionary in their thinking. It doesn't mean as much about your politics as it did before...
...tests, only math, physics and chemistry easily lend themselves to cross-cultural comparison, and U.S. college-bound students are generally better prepared in these areas, according to the test evaluators, Nevertheless, the Chinese youth come out pretty well, and may even surpass U.S. students in some of the liberal arts areas of the test. Educational Testing Services in Princeton has several copies of the USOE report and "they are analyzing them carefully," Barendsen says...