Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover stories on the joys and perils of childhood today are the children of Boston Correspondent Melissa Ludtke. A former kid herself (in Amherst, Mass., in the 1950s), she wondered what it was like to grow up in a world vastly different from the one she knew as a youngster. Ludtke located the five marvelous children whose lives form the centerpiece of the stories and spent a total of four months living with them. "My interest in children's issues began with a teenage-pregnancy story that I helped report in 1985," she relates. "The experience convinced me that...
...however, a youngster with a severe disability has the chance, to not only attend school, but to benefit substantially in the classroom from the new computer technology. And so do his peers...
...Ziemans explained to Vera the difficulties she would face as a refusenik daughter, and she has learned to be wary. She has been studying English privately since she was three, and tosses off expressions like "Come on, Mom" with the exasperated sighs of an American youngster. Yet she has never let her teachers at school know that she can speak English and studies Latin: they might become suspicious and incite their students to harass...
...particularly searing because the victims were schoolchildren. It began when Lori Dann, 30, shot and wounded an eight-year- old boy in the bathroom of the Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Dropping one pistol, she entered a second-grade classroom, where she opened fire with another revolver, killing one youngster and critically wounding four others. Dann fled to a nearby household, where she shot one occupant and barricaded herself in the building alone. When a police SWAT team finally burst in about seven hours later, Dann was found dead. She had shot herself through the head with her third...
...thin wire rod. The percussive duet lasted 52 hours, until a hole the size of a quarter had formed. A few hours later, the team carefully removed the remaining fragments and Molloko emerged. By week's end bird handlers were using a condor puppet to preen the rambunctious youngster and feed it 70 minced baby mice, or "pinkies," daily...