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Teen Vying To Be Youngest Member of NYC Council (1 Comment)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 12:01 PM

A Brooklyn teenager may be headed into the history books as the City Council's youngest member ever.
Abraham Tischler, 18, is vying for the Borough Park Council seat once held by Simcha Felder, who recently took a job with city Controller John Liu. The Touro College sophomore said his lack of experience will actually help him [...]

March 10, 2010:

Bubble-wrapped kids missing out on childhood, author claims. (1 Comment)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 8:15 PM

by Shannon Proudfoot (Canwest News Service)
Here are a few suggestions for the kids of those anxious parents hovering on the edge of the playground with a first aid kit: Lick a 9-volt battery, just to see what happens. Super Glue your fingers together or look at the sun. And by all means, play with fire.
These [...]

March 9, 2010:

ISU study proves conclusively that violent video game play makes more aggressive kids (3 Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 8:12 PM

Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of his life's work studying how violent video game play affects youth behavior. And he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less [...]

March 8, 2010:

Jeffersonville middle school student suspended for touching pill (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 7:05 PM

The parents of a Kentuckiana seventh grade student say their young daughter was suspended from school for doing exactly what she's been taught to do for years - to just say no to drugs.
The girl did not bring the prescription drug to her Jeffersonville, IN school, nor did she take it, but she admits that [...]

March 7, 2010:

UMass-Lowell sophomore Jonathan Loya to run for state legislature (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 7:00 PM

Many college students are involved in campus politics, but University of Massachusetts Lowell sophomore Jonathan Loya is shooting for Beacon Hill.
The 19-year-old from Holliston, Mass. has announced his decision to run for Massachusetts State Representative of the Middlesex Eighth District. Loya is a political science major at UMass-Lowell and a member of the Libertarian State [...]

March 6, 2010:

Lebanon's Outnumbered Maronites Pull Stops on Voting Age (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 6:56 PM

BEIRUT (AFP) -- In a country where 18-year-olds can drive, marry and serve in the army, allowing them to vote would generally be applauded as a boon for democracy. But not so in Lebanon.
A move to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 has sparked fears of a shake-up of Lebanon's political structure, a [...]

March 5, 2010:

13-Year-Old and Family Deported Over 46 Cents (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 6:53 PM

by Alex DiBranco
At a San Francisco school, a 13-year-old boy hit another youth and took 46 cents by him. He says the punch was meant as a joke, and the harassed student was unhurt; he apologized and returned the loose change. I have strong feelings against bullying, and I'm not even a fan of the [...]

March 4, 2010:

Religious Parents Beat 7 yr. old to Death for No Reason (3 Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 6:08 PM

Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz adopted three kids from an orphanage in Liberia to live with their other six kids in a remote area outside Sacramento. As it turns out, the children might have been better off remaining in that lawless African shithole...
The Schatz's homeschooled their nine children and grew their own food. Which would all [...]

March 3, 2010:

Spain's Government will propose lowering voting age to 16 years (1 Comment)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 7:37 PM

The secretary of the Joventut de la Generalitat, Eugeni Villalbí, has been in favour of young people voting at 16 and, as explained in an interview with ACN, will work to include this premise in the National Pacte per la Joventut.
Spain’s Government will propose lowering voting age to 16 years
The secretary of the Joventut de [...]

March 2, 2010:

FBI investigates allegations webcam used to monitor student (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 7:35 PM

The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official remotely monitored a student at home, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told CNN on Saturday.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said the FBI became involved in the case after a family filed a lawsuit against the [...]

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