Northern Africa: UNESCO has developed national studies examining youth civic engagement as a means for economic participation in Morocco and Egypt.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Or if the council's closure of a local youth club means more teenagers hanging around and causing mischief?

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One executive wished for a "fountain of youth" pill, while another wished for a simple, cheap means of water desalination, a technology that could transform the lives of millions of the world's poor.

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The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), a legal means of providing paperless illegal-immigrant youth access to higher education and financial aid, was signed into California law in October 2011.

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The reasons that members of this community don't get tested vary, but there are common threads that touch youth across all demographics, especially questions about what love and sex means after a positive HIV diagnosis.

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Sport is a wonderful means of passing this message, of convincing and involving youth so that they share the same values.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The movie has a slightly threadbare but eager pleasantness about it a devotion to youth, dreaminess, ambition, and freedom, which means, in practice, endless hanging out, drinking, doping, talking passionately but aimlessly, and falling in and out of bed.

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This is a world beat band, which means its mix of influences include the Indian youth musical form called bhangra, plus Gypsy, folk, hip-hop, punk.

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