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...Known as BattleCry for a Generation, the opening rally on a three-city tour isn't just for teens to celebrate their faith by listening to biblically inspired music that rocks - though that is certainly a big part of it. Organizers say they're also sending a message to the outside world that these teens are sick of the sex, drugs and violence that permeates their culture. Teen Mania Ministries, the Texas-based group that is organizing the tour, says that teens see 14,000 sexual scenes on TV each year, and another 10,000 rapes, assaults and murders. Some...
...During the event, more than 2,500 teens answered organizer Ron Luce's broader call to go on overseas mission trips to spread the Word. Buckets were circulated and more than $90,000 was collected to get them on their way. The next stops on the tour are Detroit, April 7 and 8, and Philadelphia, May 12-13. If some teens can't make it, Teen Mania has managed to tap one particularly popular aspect of modern culture. It just launched the website battlecry.com, described as "MySpace with God in the middle...
...secret. The rivals of her youth have moved on--into retirement, onto highlight reels, up to the TV booth. Yet Navratilova, the tennis great who will turn 50 in October, is still whipping forehands past players who hadn't been born yet when she started on the pro tour in 1972. With her unusual endurance have come questions--lots of them. "The longer I play and the older I get," she says, "the more I get 'Why are you still doing this? How can you do it so well...
...making excuses. She has won 167 pro singles titles--more than any other player, man or woman--and 175 doubles titles, including one last year, when she paired with Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld, 20, to win the Canadian Open. The oldest player on the women's tour, Navratilova plans to play a full doubles schedule this year--and improve on her showing at last year's Grand Slams, in which she reached the doubles semifinals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. She says she may even play singles "on the grass"--at Wimbledon, which she has won a record...
...today, scream loudly in Annenberg, and wail your cheers for House pride. Venture out of the Yard to tour your new home. And make a good impression on your older housemates—no one likes a party pooper, so don’t act dejected at your housing assignment...