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In Israel, the Shadow of a New Gaza War
Israeli officials say it so often they’ve taken to apologizing for using the example, acknowledging it’s become a clich: Israel and Hamas can lob shells into and out of the Gaza Strip indefinitely without risking actual war, the explanation begins. Each side wants to appear tough, and over four years the call and response has grown as delicately calibrated as a minuet.
Where’d You Learn That?
The cute little couple looked as if they should be sauntering through Great Adventure or waiting in line for tokens at the local arcade. Instead, the 14-year-olds walked purposefully into the Teen Center in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah
Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?
Every year around this time, millions of American kids graduate from high school, throw massive parties and get drunk. Police end up arresting a lot of these kids, causing them legal trouble for months or even years
Nepal’s Fragile Peace: Will the War’s Missing Persons Ever Be Found?
While visiting home during a holiday in 2002, Rajendra Tharu awoke in his parent’s house to find himself surrounded by childhood classmates. But they had not come to welcome him back.
THE SOUTH: Making a Crisis in Arkansas
In a shaded, peaceful residential district near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., nine Negro children quietly laid out their best clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock.
Study: Money Buys Happiness When Income Is $75,000
People say money doesn’t buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $75,000 a year
Pay for Grades: Should Parents Bribe Kids in School?
In junior high school, one of my classmates had a TV addiction — back before it was normal.
Legally Blonde and Broadway’s Girl Appeal
“What’s the story, morning glory? / What’s the word, hummingbird?” That was Broadway teen talk back in the early ’60s, when the high school kids in Bye Bye Birdie gossiped about their friends in a game of telephone tag
No Smoking on Campus? Pennsylvania Smokers Fume
Having been denied the right to puff in public buildings, workplaces and bars, staff and student smokers in Pennsylvania public colleges and universities now find themselves forced to leave campus property before lighting up.