Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened up on the over 100 defenseless worshippers, killing five more, wounding seven, creating martyrs...
...widely suspected, by migrants and U.S. lawmen, of taking payoffs from the smugglers. "They go after us, but they can be paid off," says Juan, 14, a smuggler's apprentice lounging in the courtyard of an Agua Prieta hotel that is bustling with people preparing to cross. The youngster collects $50 a head for leading migrants the last few hundred yards over the border...
HEAR YE Removing a youngster's tonsils and adenoids for recurring ear infections is traumatic enough--and it may not do much good either. In most cases, the surgery results in just a slight reduction in the number of new infections--and only for the first year after the procedure...
...separation anxiety may take the form of stage fright. "Adolescents have a sense that they're onstage and everyone's looking at them," says Harriet Lenk, professor of child development at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Feeling conspicuous whenever he leaves the home portal can fill a youngster with dread. How can parents help? "Listen to the concerns, talk about what they themselves do when they feel anxious and discuss the child's options," advises Lenk...
...back the control they have lost. If that means walking into a school with a gun, they'll do it. In the opinion of this 12-year-old, the solution is to let the parents, not the government, decide what the child should watch. Who knows the youngster better, the parent or the government? JASON GUTIERREZ Pittsfield...