12/01/2008
Young adult shoppers projected to make up biggest category of Black Friday shoppers (Fort Bend Sun)
With double digit unemployment figures, uncertainty in the stock market and the impact of negative economic conditions on the auto industry and other major employers, consumer spending on Black Friday will be a significant indicator of where the country is headed economically.
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12/01/2008
Drivers Distracted More by Cell Phones Than by Passengers (KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities)
New research shows that drivers make more mistakes while talking on cell phones than when talking to passengers. A series of experiments using driving simulators showed that young adult drivers who were talking on cell phones had reaction times similar to senior citizens.
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11/30/2008
Teen Lit, Without The Whole "Teen" Thing (Arts Journal)
Author M.T. Anderson doesn't buy the notion that literature aimed at teen readers should be less sophisticated than books meant for adults. "Anderson's attitude helps explain Octavian Nothing , an ultra-challenging, two-volume young-adult novel that runs 900-plus pages and asks teen readers to contemplate the American Revolution from a wildly unfamiliar point of view."
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11/30/2008
Author to appear at ‘Glory Rose’ signing (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Book debuts a feisty half-fairy Despite great advances in gender equality, many children and young adult stories still rely on the old fashioned standards of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, where girls might be clever and beautiful, but where ultimately, they await rescue and marriage by a perfect male suitor.
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11/25/2008
Young adult literature can be good or bad; you decide (The Augusta Chronicle)
Although there are best sellers in the book store's Young Adult department, young adult novels as a whole are often ridiculed by those who do not understand them.
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12/01/2008
Mobile phones distract drivers more than passengers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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12/01/2008
CORRECTED: Mobile phones distract drivers more than passengers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
(Corrects researcher's first name in 4th paragraph to Dave Strayer)
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11/29/2008
Today: H 2 /L -5 (Guelph Mercury)
After reading Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, the Mercury's book club was confused. Not by the book, a fantasy geared to young adult readers, but by the strong and negative reaction from the Catholic Church and some school boards to the novel and the film.
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11/29/2008
Wausau East High School to receive visit with MedVac (Wausau Daily Herald)
The Young Adult Medicine class at Wausau East High School on Wednesday will have a guest speaker make an unusual entrance.
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12/01/2008
Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Cell phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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