Delinquent French teens learn the real hard-knock life in Senegal
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&quot;Walking around here, you get the sense that this is not a country like France -- it's a poor country,&quot; says Cynthia, a French teenager among the dozens who have been sent to Senegal under a groundbreaking community service program to aid troubled youths.
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For years visitors to the French capital have complained of the rudeness of the locals, but now there are the first documented victims: hundreds of young Japanese women who have fallen prey to what a Japanese ...
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As an eighth-grader at Kroc Middle School in San Diego, Sasha Knox was trouble. She would throw punches at kids and hurl vitriol at teachers. Security guards once had to drag her out of history class while the teacher stood by, sobbing. Her great-grandfather was an alcoholic. Her grandmother, on drugs, slept in the streets. Her dad had left home, and her mother, a bipolar who smoked pot three times daily, was stumbling on and off welfare.
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The lower house of parliament opened debate Tuesday on legislation that would toughen punishments against juvenile delinquents &#151; a bid to prevent more of the violence that has wracked France's neglected suburbs over the past year.
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The film is akin to an American high school drama staged in Marie Antoinette's French quarters for teenage girls.
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France is intensifying efforts to integrate its large Muslim minority by trying to create a generation of French-speaking imams equipped with some knowledge of law and diplomas from Parisian universities, ...
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ELDORADO PARK, South Africa  - Hip-hop anthems pound, colored lights flash and hundreds of teenagers scream as two young men stride onto the stage.
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Before the on-court schooling begins,  the NBA&#39;s rookie class of 2007 are being taught lessons in life  beyond the hardcourt.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Issa Cisse thought of himself as  French when he left Senegal to help free his colonial masters  from the grip of the Germans at the end of World War II.
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"Filthy Jew!" schoolchildren howl at a classmate. "Jews only want money and power," they tell their teachers. "Death to the Jews" graffiti appear on school walls outside Paris and other French cities.
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A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet. Critics call it a clumsy effort by authorities to battle "happy slapping," the youth fad of filming violent acts &#151; which most often they have provoked &#151; and spreading the images on the Web or between mobile phones.
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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Sometimes learning about the culture and traditions of another country involves a verbal slap on the wrist.
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This tough, satisfying French film is an austere crime drama of the sort that rarely makes it to American screens except on cable television.
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Teenagers have long been lured by designer labels, but for some, flings with high-priced fashion have become more like obsessions in the past few years.
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A Guinean teenager was caught trying to   hitch a ride to Paris on an Air France plane on Thursday, the   latest young African to risk his life in the hope of breaching   "Fortress Europe," state radio said.
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Teenagers are to be taught how to look after their own finances, in a curriculum shake-up.