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17 Days in Darkness, a Cry of рSave Me,Ҁ and Joy and Bangladesh Survivor Leaves Hospital With Job
Reshma Begum, who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory, fielded many job offers before accepting work at the Westin Hotel in Dhaka.
Where Is Home for a Third-Culture Kid?
These children of expatriates call many places home, pausing a little too long on the fundamental question: ӀWhere are you from?Ԁ
A Youthful Corps Whose Esprit Comes From Hustle
Since he was 6, Mujeeb has sold cheap wares in Kabul, Afghanistan, to Westerners who have grown so accustomed to seeing him over the past 12 years that they often leave him gifts and goods for free. At 18, he is the dean of the hawker corps.
A Lost Generation: Young Syrian Refugees Struggle to Survive
More than half the 500,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan are under 18. ӀThey canҀt see beyond, frankly, the next day,Ԁ an aid worker said.
Out of EgyptҀs Chaos, Musical Rebellion
Young musicians have created a new genre of youth-driven, socially conscious music and forced it on the Egyptian soundscape.
Boy Scouts End Longtime Ban on Openly Gay Youths
The Boy Scouts of America on May 23 ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a step its chief executive called Ӏcompassionate, caring and kind.Ԁ
Queens Boy, 13, Wins Scripps Spelling Bee With рKnaidelҀ and Some Say the Spelling of a Winning Word Just WasnҀt Kosher
The fourth trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee was the charm for Arvind V. Mahankali, 13, from Bayside, Queens. Arvind, an eighth grader at Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School, won the nationally televised contest by spelling Ӏknaidel,Ԁ a Yiddish term of German origin meaning Ӏdumpling.Ԁ
Naval Academy Is Shaken by StudentҀs Report of Rape by Athletes
As midshipmen were graduating from the Naval Academy, Navy investigators were conducting an investigation into reports that several football players had serially raped a female midshipman at an off-campus party last year.
Another Chance for MoneҀt
The end of the road is a yellow brick house in East New York, Brooklyn, that was once a rectory. MoneҀt arrived there on Dec. 28 with a bad attitude and four years of baggage.
Young Americans Lead Trend to Less Driving
Younger people are less likely to drive ׀ or even to have driverҀs licenses ׀ than past generations for whom driving was a birthright and the open road a symbol of freedom.
Oregon Youth Is Accused of Plotting School Attack
Law enforcement officials in Oregon say they have disrupted a plot by a student to set off explosives at his high school in what one official described as a Ӏvideo-game style of killing peopleԀ reminiscent of the Columbine High School massacre.
Kicked Off Their Flight, Students Turn to Internet
After a group of Brooklyn students refused to sit down and shut off their cellphones, the AirTran crew ordered them and their chaperones off the plane, prompting the teenagers to turn to social media in vigorous dissent.
A New Way to Care for Young Brains
In the last three years, dozens of youth concussion clinics have opened in nearly 35 states.
Hidden Threats to Young Athletes
The No. 1 killer of young athletes is sudden cardiac arrest, typically brought on by a pre-existing, detectable condition that could have been treated.
Technology
Before Tumblr, Founder Made Mom Proud. He Quit School.
David Karp never finished high school or enrolled in college. Instead, he played a significant role in several technology start-ups before founding Tumblr.
The Apprentices of a Digital Age
Jasmine Gao, who is 19, just wasnҀt the classroom type. So instead of languishing in college, she dropped out after her freshman year. A year later, Ms. Gao holds the title of data strategist at Bitly, the URL-shortening service based in New York.
Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I.
It may be a timeless curse of parenthood to know simultaneously too much about oneҀs teenager and yet never access the information one actually wants. But the unruly morass of todayҀs social media and cellphone-infested landscape seems to have made both aspects of the curse worse.
Following in His ParentsҀ Very Fast Footsteps
The Burrells are the first family of sprinting in the United States and possess rare versatility as sprinters and jumpers. Cameron, 18, a senior at Ridge Point High School southwest of Houston, has run the nationҀs top scholastic time this season in the 100, a wind-aided 10.07 seconds at the Texas Relays.
A Whistle, a Punch, and a Soccer Referee Is Dead
A little more than a week after a 17-year-old soccer player punched a recreation-league referee in the head in suburban Salt Lake City, the referee is dead, the player faces charges, and youth sports are left with questions about the seeming rise in severity of assaults on officials.
En Garde, All the Time
For Adrienne Jarocki, 17, an international fencing champion from Middle Village, Queens, Sundays are only partly a day of rest.
Autistic Twins Are Hoping for Calm Races After the Trauma of Boston
Alex and Jamie Schneider run seemingly on instinct, saying nothing and drifting into a cone of concentration. They are autistic 22-year-old identical twins from Long Island whose passion is to run for miles at a time.
Griner Says She Is Part of Mission to Help All Live in Truth
ӀI never felt the need to publicly announce I was Ӏout,Ԁ writes the W.N.B.A. player Brittney Griner.
Changing Sex, and Changing Teams
Not so long ago, Toni Bias dreamed of playing in the W.N.B.A. But after starring on the girlsҀ junior varsity basketball team as a high school freshman, Toni came out as transgender last summer, began going by the name Tony and started transitioning to male.
Sport Gains Hoofhold on a Scholastic Level
The United States Polo Association has developed strategies to make polo more accessible to high school and college students without their having to make a major investment.
ItҀs Just Another Hurdle for Blind Athletes
Holding a fiberglass pole, Aria Ottmueller bent and touched the runway to locate her starting mark. A coach helped position her front foot. The foam vaulting pit at her high school appeared only as a blue smudge. The crossbar was invisible to her.
In the Name of a Legacy
Tim Corbin coaches Carl YastrzemskiҀs grandson Mike, a senior right fielder for Vanderbilt.
Former Ski Racer Developed Swing That Sounds as Good as It Looks
The Austrian teenager Marina StuetzҀs path to the L.P.G.A. Tour did not go through an American college program, Golf ChannelҀs ӀBig BreakԀ or the Ladies European Tour. She arrived like a snowstorm in spring, catching everyone by surprise.
Top 16-Year-Old Runner Has a Long To-Do List
A sophomore at CharlotteҀs Ardrey Kell High School, Alana Hadley is 5 feet 5 inches and 110 pounds, with a resting heart rate of 50 beats a minute and a preference for pink and purple T-shirts.
Broadway Babies
With nine shows featuring child actors, Broadway stages are teeming with little ones right now, and the business of tending to them is booming.
The Hollywood Fast Life of Stalker Sarah
One afternoon this winter, Sarah M., better known as ӀStalker Sarah,Ԁ was sitting in the back of an In-N-Out Burger fidgeting with her iPhone and plotting how to get her picture taken with Harry Styles, the rakishly handsome frontman of the English boy band One Direction, or one of his bandmates.
A New Jackson in Front of the Lens
Michael JacksonҀs oldest son, Prince, has become a teenager about town.
Such a Doll
Mostly in their teens and early 20s, a group of girls are pioneers in a movement that gained traction in Eastern Europe last year in which they try to achieve perfection as Ӏthe most-realistic-ever human Barbie doll.Ԁ
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The Michael Moore of the Grade-School Lunchroom
Guerrilla filmmakers often face crackdowns by the powers that be, and Zachary Maxwell is no exception.
His hidden-camera documentary was almost derailed last year when he was caught filming without permission by a fearsome enforcer ր the lunchroom monitor in his school cafeteria.
With Students as Backdrop, Obama Warns of Doubling of Loan Rates
College students, freshly relieved of pressure from term papers and final exams, served as a backdrop for President Obama as he warned of another impending fiscal deadline: student loan interest rates are set to double in 30 days under current law.
Reports of Cheating at Barnard College Cause a Stir
Revelations about shared quiz answers, unearned grades and even bribes in a Barnard course.
On a College Waiting List? Sending Cookies IsnҀt Going to Help
For most applicants to selective colleges, the letters that arrived by April 1 brought an end to months of anxious wondering. But for some small fraction of those students, the tension is only now reaching its apex.
In ThailandҀs Schools, Vestiges of Military Rule
At a public school in an industrial Bangkok suburb, teachers wield bamboo canes and reprimand students for long hair, ordering it sheared on the spot.
College Essays That Stand Out From the Crowd
What these four writers have in common is an appetite for risk.
A Team Approach to Get Students College Ready
Blue Engine recruits and places recent college graduates as full-time teaching assistants in high schools.
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