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...their cause from the American mainstream. The idea of sending Elian to New York may look like another propaganda bonanza to Havana - it would get up the noses of the exile community once again. Even if it didn't, Castro would hope to turn Cuba's best-known grade-schooler into a poster child of vitality for his wheezy revolution - just as the exiles had done for their cause after the boy was rescued off Miami on Thanksgiving Day two years...
...that home-schooling parents give up, what are their kids getting? We know the average SAT score for home schoolers in 2000 was 1100, compared with 1019 for the general population. And a large study by University of Maryland education researcher Lawrence Rudner showed that the average home schooler scored in the 75th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; the 50th percentile marked the national average. But not all home schoolers take standardized tests, and one suspects the better students are the ones volunteering to do so. It's also difficult to assess how a child...
...targeted us as a market?" asked a Colorado teen. "You slapped negative labels on our entire generation," complained a Californian. "None of my friends got a Mercedes for their 16th birthday. What we do have are the problems that the President is leaving for the future." A Wisconsin high-schooler was more upbeat: "Rest easy, folks. The 95% of us who weren't handed our lives on a silver platter will make sure your later years are prosperous and pleasant. Just keep the Cartier watch on layaway...
...house, all the hoopla has created a blase middle schooler who has more diplomas than our dentist and a serious case of graduation fatigue. Recently, when she sighed and asked what we were doing this summer, I said, "I have one word for you: plastics...
...tend to wear today what Japanese teens wore a few minutes ago. And unlike the fashion industrial complex in the West, in which top designers and magazine editors dictate what's hot, Japan's teen fashion industry revolves entirely around what Tokyo girls say is kawaii. Every month, high schoolers in the capital spend roughly $275 each on gear and clothes?three times more than the average Japanese high schooler. (As a group, high-school girls in the country spend around $2.5 billion annually.) Most of that discretionary yen goes to the brand name with the newest, hottest, coolest style...