| December 21, 2004 | - A poll found that teens were smoking less.
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AP
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| December 16, 2003 | - A study found that teens would like to hear more about sex from their parents.
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New York Times
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| November 25, 2003 | - Two 16-year-olds in Texas were arrested for plotting to kill 24 people at their high school.
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New York Times
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| July 15, 2003 | - American teenagers were having a hard time finding summer jobs.
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New York Times
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| September 10, 2002 | -
Two teenagers in Oslo, Norway, found a human brain in a box on the street.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
A British teenager was sentenced to at least 12 years in prison for cutting the heart out of his 90-year-old neighbor and drinking her blood.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
County officials in Philadelphia launched a “homeland security summer camp” where at-risk teens are paid minimum wage for participating in an eight-week program on “terrorism response.” Reports surfaced that “Ground Zero, USA,” an urban-warfare camp in Alabama, may have unwittingly trained al Qaeda operatives.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
A 13-year-old girl from Bolivia named Gabriela Azurdy Arrieta opened the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children. “We want a world fit for children,” she said in her speech, “because a world fit for us is a world fit for everyone.” The United States, the Vatican, and several Arab countries disrupted the proceedings by pushing anti-abortion and sexual abstinence agendas.
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| April 9, 2002 | -
The Roman Catholic church agreed to pay $1.2 million to a woman in Los Angeles who was sexually abused by a priest when she was a teenager; in New York a priest was charged with raping a child.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
It was reported that the patriotic teenager who flew a small airplane into a Tampa, Florida, office building, dedicating his suicide to Osama bin Laden, was taking Accutane, a prescription acne medication that has been linked to suicides.
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| December 11, 2001 | - In Sweden, four teenagers were convicted of treason for hitting the king in the face with strawberry cream cake.
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| November 27, 2001 | - A new study confirmed that abuse of stimulants used to treat attention-deficit disorder, such as Ritalin, was rampant among children and teens. “People don't realize what these drugs are,” one scientist said. “The similarities between them and cocaine are much greater than the differences.”
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| September 25, 2001 | - King Mswati of Swaziland imposed a five-year ban on having sex with teenage girls.
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| September 11, 2001 | - A 17-year-old Siberian boy beat his parents to death with an iron bar because they were trying to put a stop to his video-gambling habit; he was arrested at the video arcade.
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| August 14, 2001 | - Three teens in Baltimore were charged with murder in connection with a four-month bum-stomping spree that resulted in three deaths.
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| July 3, 2001 | - A mob of students in Paterson, New Jersey, beat a homeless drunk to death with his own beer bottle.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, decided to ask for a stay of execution; his lawyer said that “the most important thing in his life is to help bring integrity to the criminal justice system.” In Israel, a Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded sidewalk outside a beachside nightclub frequented by teenagers, killing at least 20 and wounding almost 100.
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| May 15, 2001 | - Two Jewish teenagers who skipped school and went for a hike in the West Bank were found dead in a cave, their heads crushed by rocks.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
New York's supreme court ruled that gun makers could not be held responsible for shootings with guns that were bought and sold illegally; a Brooklyn jury had previously awarded $522,000 to a teenager, who was shot in the head, on the theory that the manufacturer was guilty of “negligent marketing.”
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| May 1, 2001 | - A live-in caretaker in Everett, Washington, was charged with murder for paying her 13-year-old daughter and four other teenagers to kill her client's son, 64, with baseball bats; her 11- and 7-year-old children helped her clean up the house afterwards; the 89-year-old client, a mute Alzheimer's patient, was neglected and survived by eating newspapers.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Another teenager shot up a school in California.
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| January 23, 2001 | - An Islamic court in Nigeria carried out the public flogging of a teenage girl who was forced to have sex with three men; after receiving her 100 lashes, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who gave birth to a daughter last month, thanked Allah for her punishment and walked home to her village.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Two stolen koala bears were recovered from a dung-filled San Francisco home; the koalas were stolen by two Vietnamese Buddhist
teenagers who broke into the San Francisco zoo through a skylight and tried to give the bears to their girlfriends, who rejected the gifts.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Three American teenagers in Germany were being tried for killing two women by dropping stones on cars from a bridge.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Five teenagers were arrested for beating a pizza delivery man to death for a free meal; the boys left $600 in their victim's pocket.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Smoking among teenagers continued to decline, as did violent crime.
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| August 29, 2000 | - A new poll found that 9 out of 10 teenagers favor gun control.
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