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youth stories: 38 news summaries

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(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • presidential politics • Scholastic • youth • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • high school students • students

Glossies

 Death of Reading 
 Greatly Exaggerated 

Author Eggers pooh-poohs skeptical pundits, says it's 'as alive as ever'

Sep 29, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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literacy • reading • youth • book • children's books • Dave Eggers • publishing industry • 826 Valencia

Chile's Frisky Teens Kiss Off Conservative Ways of Old

Parents, educators fret about sexual revolution

Sep 13, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Latin America • Chile • sexuality • youth • sexual behavior • teenager

Early Voting Law May
Help Obama in Ohio

One-step voting window could boost youth turnout

Aug 13, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • Ohio • voting • youth • Barack Obama supporters • voting process • young voters • voter registration

 Russia Goes After Emo   

Fearing for teens, Duma debates legislation to outlaw fashion, monitor websites

Jul 24, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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Russia • music • fashion • legislation • culture • youth • Duma • Russian parliament • emo

 To Cheat Death, Eat Less 

15% reduction in your diet at age 25 could add 4½ years to your life, researchers think

Jul 9, 08 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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food • health • elderly • science • aging • youth • calories • lifespan • calorie restriction

OMG Gatsby Was a Fraud!

It's no ROFL matter: web-speak, text-talk and even :( are slipping into schoolwork

Apr 24, 08 9:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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SAT • Facebook • youth • texting • schoolwork

 Mexico's Emo Teens Under Fire 

They're being attacked in the streets by other youth subcultures

Mar 28, 08 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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Latin America • Mexico City • Mexico • youth • Tijuana • riots • teenager • emo

Girl Gangs Clash in Paris

Cops shocked by girl gangs fighting with knives, tear gas

Feb 23, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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France • gangs • Paris • youth • gang violence • teenager

US Hatred
Fuels Iraq's Teen Fighters

One 16-year-old, a would-be bomber,
tells his tale

Dec 21, 07 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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terrorism • youth • Iraq police • Marine • Iraq war

'Little Emperors' Run Riot
in China

Single-child pressures & tech revolution blamed in crime surge

Dec 5, 07 5:12 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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China • youth • cybercrime • juveniles • online crime

MTV Launches New Arabic Channel

Music videos and Arab rap try to woo a huge under-30 audience

Nov 18, 07 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - How do you say "pimp my ride" in Arabic? Fans will find out when they tune in to MTV Arabia, a new channel launched yesterday in Dubai. The youth brand hopes to deliver its sassy programs to an Arab world, where two-thirds of the population is under 30, without... More »

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music • MTV • Dubai • youth • Arabic • MTV Arabia • Pimp My Ride

More US Kids, Young Adults Commiting Suicide

Rate rises most sharply among teen girls

Sep 6, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suicide rates among America's children and young adults surged by 8% between 2003 and 2004, the most significant increase over the past 15 years, a new Centers for Disease Control report shows. The hike coincides with a 22% decrease in antidepressant use, but it could be related to changes in... More »

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suicide • depression • antidepressant • children • Americans • youth

Antidepressant Warning Preceded Youth Suicide Surge

Unintended effect unfolded as use fell

Sep 6, 07 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four years after the FDA and other agencies sparked a drop in antidepressant use by labeling the meds a suicide risk for young people, a new study shows the results were exactly the opposite of what regulators intended. From 2003 to 2004, the suicide rate among people under 19 rose... More »

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suicide • FDA • depression • antidepressant • children • youth • Prozac • Paxil • Zoloft • suicide rate

Disney Goes Back to High School

Aug 16, 07 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The sequel to Disney's smash hit 'High School Musical' will air Friday, and with a barrage of merchandise including CDs, DVDs, musical handbags, stationery, bedding, and a board game, the two kids' flicks are expected to rake in $100M for the Mickey Mouse company, reports the LA Times. More »

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television • Disney Channel • children • Mickey Mouse • Disney • merchandise • youth • High School Musical • soundtrack • High School Musical 2 • Zac Efron • movies

A Prison Aims
to Deprogram Young Jihadists

Shia and Sunni students agree on nothing but Harry Potter

Aug 10, 07 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The high-security Iraqi prison that once held Saddam Hussein now hosts a pilot program to reeducate jihadist youth. Newsweek visited Camp Cropper, which for the past two months has offered classes and psychological guidance aimed at deprogramming would-be suicide bombers. But the teachers have struggled because the hatred in the... More »

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Iraq • Harry Potter • Sunni • Shiite • prison • jihad • youth • Camp Cropper

Young Americans Swing Left, Favor Dems

Support universal health care

Jun 27, 07 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Young Americans are skewing left, with fewer identifying themselves as Republicans and more siding with Democrats on hot-button issues, according to a New York Times/CBS/MTV poll. Those surveyed, aged 17 to 29, are more likely than the general public to favor universal health care, gay marriage and open-door immigration. More »

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immigration • Democrats • gay marriage • universal health care • Americans • youth • Election 2008

Chinese Kids Tire of Communism

Mandatory Marxist indoctrination a tough sell to modern youth

Jun 26, 07 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese kids are bored stiff with the Communist philosophy still force-fed in their university system. Classes in Marxism have been mandatory since Mao, but cell-phone-weilding students entranced by China's burgeoning capitalist infrastructure are having trouble relating. "It's something like fiction," one student says of the readings in Das ... More »

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China • communism • Marxism • children • capitalism • youth • student

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