Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troubled childhood in which these students are singled out by their peers. But I believe that the main reasons for these crimes are the Internet and easy access to guns. The children of America should be the ones most involved in seeking out signs of a disturbed youngster. Students can observe things on a closer and more personal level than adults can. And people should be completely aware that this type of incident can happen anywhere. JAKE DOUGLAS, 14 Edison...
...Driver," I shouted in the sweaty, rotund man's ear, "This is my stop." He pulled to the curb and I skipped down the steps. The elderly lady and her palette-minded youngster climbed down the stairs behind me. We went our separate ways, they searching for a Teletubbies activity book and me, well, I was waiting for new adventures...
...population of New York City is 7 million--that is, absent the horde of literary characters who hover in odd corners of museums, frolic in the parks, stroll ordinary streets and make the city a warm and friendly place for a well-read youngster. "Seeing real places that are associated with books makes stories come alive," says Judy Zuckerman, a children's-books specialist at the New York Public Library, "and visiting something kids have read about adds a personal dimension to a trip...
...Pablo is still sleeping. He must be tired," one toddler tells the caregiver while hovering over the sleeping youngster's head...
Stop trying to conform. Go back to your roots with the one and only Bazooka Joe. Mints, shmints; cinnaburst, minnamurst. What's weaker than a sudden explosion of mock maturity than the youngster who without warning switches from bubble gum to mint? Really, it's all about the roots. Who was there in elementary school and junior high? Not the Wrigley's twins, not any strangely favored lifesaver, not any "curiously strong" mint. It was, always has been, and always will be good old Joe, with a comic wrap to keep that smile on your face and a familiar flavor...