Torrey Taussig is a strategic communications professional and a member of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

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Over the course of three days, 101 went through a series of sessions with the Vatican, covering the new media landscape, social media trends among young people, the changing nature of institutional communications and crisis management PR.

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Mr. Young asked Donna Kush, assistant vice president for corporate communications, to brief the board last October, just before the railroad operator launched its first national advertising campaign in nearly a decade.

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"What makes this data so disturbing is the clear and unexpected finding that dating abuse and violence begins at such a young age, " said Jane Randel, the vice president of corporate communications for Liz Claiborne Inc.

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"After a frightening personal experience where I briefly lost my young son, Filip, in a mall, I realized that a communications and location device for children was not a nice-to-have but a must-have, " said Sten Kirkbak, founder and CEO of Evado Filip.

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Then little-known start-ups like Baidu were just getting off the ground, and the web and mobile communications boom that today ranks the country No. 1 in users of both was still relatively young.

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But Gore will address the press and the people soon, said Jano Cabrera, communications director for Gore's newly formed political action committee that will raise money to train young leaders and help Democratic candidates.

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Martha Kempner, vice president for information and communications for the nonprofit Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S., said telling a young woman to stay"pure" misses the point that sexuality will influence her long after she loses her virginity.

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