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...teens, the teen pregnancy rate is five times that in France and Italy, only 25% of high school seniors are competent in math, 80% of teens gamble, and 5.5 million are in psychological counseling. In more than 100 cultures around the world, teen turmoil is entirely absent; the serious problems of American teens are the creation of a culture that infantilizes young people and isolates them from adults. Robert Epstein, Ph.D., DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO JOHN CLOUD RESPONDS: While the absolute numbers are still too high, Epstein ignores that the trends over time are all good...
...Sharpton have for their missteps. I will go to my grave believing that taking Imus off the air was a huge mistake. This will prove to be a missed opportunity to generate dialogue about many subjects that are currently being discussed only in the privacy of our homes. Many problems are devastating the black community, but Imus is not one of them. The time for blaming the white community for minority problems has expired. We must hold ourselves accountable. Curtis Sims, LAKE STEVENS, WASHINGTON, U.S. I suspect that if Imus had been talking about a men's basketball team...
...problem is that we’re routinely covered for doing what has already been done, for being second-fiddle, for being mundane or rehashing. In short, Harvard is often rewarded with coverage without being unique. Reporters: if we do something truly revolutionary—like, say, fire our former Secretary of the Treasury embattled President in the long aftermath of questionable comments regarding gender and great faculty dissent—then by all means, cover Harvard...
...fact, on the Sunday shows, Rice more or less took the same approach as before, telling Bob Schieffer on CBS' Face The Nation, "The sad fact of how all this has gotten talked about is that there was a problem with intelligence." As for whether "slam-dunk" had been a device for scapegoating Tenet and the CIA, Rice demurred, but added, "Yes, George said it, but we all thought the intelligence was strong...
...superbly equipped home. The national government has been squeezing health-care subsidies, and Saito worries fears the consequences of millions of Japanese baby boomers reaching retirement age this year. "People like us in the outlying areas are suffering now," he says. "But this will be a major problem in the big cities soon. We face a difficult question." Perhaps Japan should find out what Okamura-san is drinking, and order 127 million cases...