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By Jordyn Turney, 19, reporting from Alpine, CA, on the year's most riveting reads from first-time authors
It's been a tough year in too many other areas, but 2009 has been a great one for young adult books. This is the year that brought us Sarah Dessen's latest, Along for the Ride, as well as the sad and startling If I Stay by ...
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By Alison Smith, 19, reporting from Brooklyn, NY, on the record that rocked 2001—and still does today
So the first ten years of life in the 2000s come to an end, and the UK music magazine NME has voted the Strokes' Is This It the Album of the Decade. Eight years after its release pulled the music world out of a Nu-Metal funk, the 11-song ...
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By Amy Hunt, 19, reporting from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on an awesome site that will take you outside this summer
I know what I did last summer: pretty much nothing. I couldn't get a job and didn't even have my driver's license until August, a nice three-plus years after turning sixteen (don't laugh at me). I ended up ...
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By Lisa Chau, 21, reporting from Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the eyelash curler she goes to bat for
I have been obsessed with my eyelashes ever since the day I-seventh grade, age 12-stole my sister's eyelash curler. You see, my little Asian eyes were blessed with scraggly, thin lashes that point straight down. Occasionally right into my ...
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By Charlotte Steinway, 21, reporting from Boston on the first Lady of avant-garde style
Though Lady Gaga is a bastion of cutting-edge style, there's a reason that many of her signature pieces have yet to make it into the stores. I mean, what's really the likelihood of someone being able to see out of fully rhinestoned sunglasses? And, ...
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By Zoe Mendelson, 19, reporting from Chicago on the coolest T-shirts in (and out of) town
I don't know when graphic T-shirts lost their charm. Maybe it was somewhere between "Jesus is my Homeboy" and "90% Angel." Honestly, it took me way too long to admit that a mass-produced T-shirt couldn't actually be clever. ...
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By Maya-Catherine Popa, 20, reporting from NYC, on must-see (vampire-free!) TV
Tired of romances between the undead? Bored of America's Next Top blonde, sandwich, or kite flyer? Then maybe it's time to watch a TV show that's funny—actually funny, not "Isn't it funny how that model suspended in the air is crying upside ...
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By Cammi Henao, 15, reporting from Chicago, on how to get in on the secrets every Sunday
Every Sunday, even if I have absolutely nothing planned, I've got something to look forward to. What is it? PostSecret
I am a big fan of things that involve people from all over—especially when it is people from all over sharing experiences and ...
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By Jessica Goodman, 19, reporting from Los Angeles, on what a change in hair color can do
I have a brand-new obsession – hair dye. I love how it helps you transform into a more comfortable person, gives you the ability to change your appearance at the tip of your fingers, and lets you make your own statement whether people notice or ...
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By Cindy Morand, 20, reporting from New York, NY on a cool way to get back-to-school cash
* RED Hearts note: Remember, for safety, that if you sign on for an odd job, you should tell a friend exactly where you are, and tell the hirer that you've done so.
This recession is drastically affecting all of us—especially us students. A lot of us ...