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No more vino for Italian teens!
A drinking ban prohibiting the consumption and sale of alcohol to anyone under the age of 16 is being enforced for the first time in Milan, Italy. The ban is an attempt to curb the rising trend of binge drinking. The city claims approximately one-third …
12-year-old activist goes international on Facebook
You may have heard about two American reporters who allegedly entered North Korea illegally in March, 2009. Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, were doing a story for Current TV, a media outlet based in San Francisco. Laura’s sister, Lisa, was on television’s The View. They …
OMG! Manhole claims texter!
Alexa Longueira of Staten Island, New York, discovered the danger in texting and walking at the same time. Earlier this month, the 15-year-old fell into an uncovered manhole. She fell five to six feet into the sewer and suffered scrapes on her arms and back. …
17-year-old sails around the world – alone!
In 2008, Zac Sunderland set sail to circumnavigate the globe. He was 16 when he left his home in California on the Intrepid, his 36-foot sailboat. Zac saved $6,000 to buy the boat. He is home-schooled and kept up with his studies onboard. Thirteen months later, in …
Pennsylvania swim club – was it a safety issue or racial?
A private swim club in the Philadelphia area, with an open membership policy, agreed to allow children from a local day-care center to swim at their pool. The Creative Steps summer camp paid the club $1950.00 for the weekly swim time. 65 children, mostly Black …
Snoop Dogg helps with 4th-grade math
Megan Marie Allen has a unique approach to teaching her 4th-grade class. As she says, “anything to get them interested in the subjects.” Like wearing military fatigues when the kids are doing writing drills. The 30-year-old teacher at Cleveland Elementary in Tampa, Florida, also uses …