His lead with under-30s is biggest in 'modern American history'
Politico Nov 8, 08 9:42 AM CST
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Barack Obama enters office with the biggest youth mandate in modern political history, Politico reports. He outpolled John McCain by 34 points—66% to 32%—among voters younger than 30. That's four times the margin that led John F. Kennedy to say, “The torch has been passed to a new generation.” It's the first time youths have voted so differently from their elders in postwar America.
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Both league champions are full of next decade's superstars
New York Times Oct 22, 08 11:29 AM CDT
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The recent woes of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays belie what could be a truly classic World Series, the New York Times reports. With 13 of 16 starting position players under 30 and each team's ace only 24 years old, the future of baseball could be on display tonight at St. Petersburg’s domed Tropicana Field.
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USA Today Oct 14, 08 12:27 PM CDT
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Barack Obama may be pulling slowly away from John McCain, but he's the overwhelming choice among the pre-K through 12th grade set. In a Scholastic poll, 57% of 250,000 students picked the Dem, USA Today reports. And don’t write it off as youthful inexperience —the poll has an 88% accuracy rate, only twice failing to predict the real winner since 1940. Write-ins this year included Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, “My Dad,” and Stephen Colbert.
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Glossies
Author Eggers pooh-poohs skeptical pundits, says it's 'as alive as ever'
Esquire Sep 29, 08 4:39 PM CDT
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Our bleak outlook on the future of reading owes itself to a doomsday reflex, the pervasive belief that things are bound to get worse, author Dave Eggers writes in Esquire . "It must be true, we think—just yesterday I saw some kid on the bus, and he wasn't reading a book!" But "few if any of these dire assumptions … are born out by any proof whatsoever."
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Parents, educators fret about sexual revolution
New York Times Sep 13, 08 11:25 AM CDT
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Chile's teenagers are going through a sexual rebellion unlike anything the once straight-laced Catholic country has ever seen before, the New York Times reports. Now parents and educators, who themselves grew up under the repressive Pinochet regime, are worried that sex education isn't keeping up with promiscuity fueled in part by the online boom. “Chile’s youth are clearly having sex earlier and testing the borderlines with their sexual conduct,” said one doctor.
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One-step voting window could boost youth turnout
Associated Press Aug 13, 08 4:35 PM CDT
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An Ohio voting law that allows residents to register and vote simultaneously one month before the election may benefit Barack Obama, the AP reports. With one-stop voting available on college campuses Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, thousands could be added to the voter rolls—and Obama leads McCain 2-to-1 among 18- to 34-year-olds. Ninety percent of the nearly half a million college students in Ohio are said to be state residents.
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Fearing for teens, Duma debates legislation to outlaw fashion, monitor websites
Guardian (UK) Jul 24, 08 3:55 PM CDT
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Fearing a threat to the wellbeing of its youth, the Russian Duma is going after what it sees as Public Enemy No. 1—emo. Lawmakers are debating legislation to ban all signs of emo culture—an offshoot of punk music—from schools and government buildings, the Guardian reports. Lawmakers see the trademark skinny jeans, black lipstick, and outré hairdos as “dangerous teen trends” that could lead to antisocial behavior and suicide.
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15% reduction in your diet at age 25 could add 4½ years to your life, researchers think
LiveScience Jul 9, 08 6:26 PM CDT
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Call it the Refrigerator of Youth: Eating less could add nearly 5 years to your lifespan, LiveScience reports. Even scholars dismissive of anti-aging hype concede that a more moderate eating approach could bear fruit. "There is plenty of evidence that calorie restriction can reduce your risks for many common diseases including cancer, diabetes and heart disease," one researcher says.
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It's no ROFL matter: web-speak, text-talk and even :( are slipping into schoolwork
Associated Press Apr 24, 08 9:07 PM CDT
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Two-thirds of American teens aren’t keeping their LOLs to themselves: They're turning in papers and lab reports with abbreviations, dropped punctuation, and other informalities inherent to Internet and text-message vocabularies, the AP reports. Kids who write blogs and have Facebook pages are more likely to slip from formality in their schoolwork, a new survey shows—but OMG! grown-ups aren’t that upset about it.
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They're being attacked in the streets by other youth subcultures
Wired Mar 28, 08 10:58 AM CDT
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An ugly clash of cultures is surfacing in Mexico with so-called emo teenagers being viciously beaten in big cities across the country, Wired reports. In one well-publicized attack north of Mexico City, an 800-strong mob—made up of punk fans and ordinary working-class teens—beat up a handful of long-haired, mascara-wearing teens. Another attack in the capital itself has prompted the police to begin anti-riot patrols.
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Cops shocked by girl gangs fighting with knives, tear gas
Times (UK) Feb 23, 08 2:20 PM CST
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Paris cops recently broke up a suburban street-fight between rival gangs—but this time the gangsters were girls, the Times of London reports. "They had knives, screwdrivers, sticks and teargas and they were really going for each other," one officer said. Girl violence has spiked 140% in France since 2002, but police were surprised by the sight of an armed girl-gang battle.
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One 16-year-old, a would-be bomber,
tells his tale
Der Spiegel Dec 21, 07 2:55 PM CST
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US and Iraqi forces trying to regain control of the country face a particularly troublesome category of insurgents—teenagers fueled with hatred against America, Der Spiegel reports. The German newspaper interviewed one such teen whose botched plot to kill US soldiers resulted instead in his arrest. He not only led police to accomplices but provided insight into the anti-occupation passion shared by his peers.
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Single-child pressures & tech revolution blamed in crime surge
Reuters Dec 5, 07 5:12 AM CST
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China is seeing an explosion in youth crime, and the effects of the one-child policy and sweeping social and technological change are thought to be partly to blame, reports Reuters. Juvenile delinquency has doubled in the last decade, with offenders getting bolder and more innovative. "They are committing new types of crime and forming larger gangs. They even commit crimes without specific motives," an expert said.
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Music videos and Arab rap try to woo a huge under-30 audience
BBC Nov 18, 07 11:45 AM CST
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How do you say "pimp my ride" in Arabic? Fans will find out when they tune in to MTV Ara