• For those who suffered mostly misery in this life, who died as infants or young children, who never really had an opportunity to know true joy or love, the afterlife offered a second chance and a way to address the unfairness of this life.

    BBC: A Point of View: Would you want to live forever?

  • We strive to provide girls and young women with second chances if they never enrolled or dropped out of schooling.

    UNESCO: LIAISON OFFICE IN BRUSSELS

  • Husna knew that she could never hope to attract or marry a young man from one of the rich established families.

    NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

  • Britain has become less like Scandinavia, where young people tend to leave home at 18 or 19 and never return, and more like a Mediterranean country, where kids can stick around for decades.

    ECONOMIST: Young adults have become reluctant to fly the family nest

  • And finally, my husband is also working to encourage young entrepreneurs everywhere to start businesses, to improve the health of our communities and to empower our young women and girls because it is never too late or too early to start changing this world for the better.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Students in Mumbai

  • "The idea was never to stifle free speech or deny a young guy his right to make a bad joke, but to hold the world's largest purveyor of sports entertainment and journalism to some kind of standard, " she told CNN.

    CNN: ESPN vows to take closer look at showcased fan signs

  • They voted by 324 to 265 to throw out an amendment from Baroness Meacher which called for young people who have never been able to work due to illness or disability to receive "contributory" ESA - usually paid to those who have paid a certain amount of National Insurance.

    BBC: Welfare Reform Bill - part one

  • The academy has never given a Grammy to Neil Young, The Who, Led Zeppelin, or The Kinks.

    NPR: At 50, The Grammys Show Their Age Again

  • "If you asked me two years ago, I would never believe that so many young people would leave Greece and go to London or Germany or other European countries, " he said.

    CNN: Fear and confusion rule as Greece faces uncertain future

  • But anything that can cajole or entice more young women into staying in school and delaying pregnancy improves their chances of never going on welfare (and, of course, of earning much more than the current generation of working single mums).

    ECONOMIST: Helping the poor

  • Among these young men - from families of skilled or semi-skilled workers - more than two-thirds never expect to own their own home, says a survey.

    BBC: 'Angry young men' lack optimism

  • The Department of Work and Pensions could not say how many young people's benefits were docked or stopped under powers introduced in 2000 - because the information had never been collected.

    BBC: 'Low take-up' on baby credit

  • And there's never been a generation of young people who are on track to be healthier than their parents -- or less healthy than their parents.

    WHITEHOUSE: The First Lady Takes On Childhood Obesity

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