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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two teenage boys sued the Minnesota State High School League on Wednesday, alleging it maintains unconstitutional rules that bar boys from joining girls’ competitive high school dance teams. Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald filed a federal lawsuit with help from their parents and the Pacific Legal Foundation, which has worked on similar cases with students in at least two other states. The two 16-year-olds want to try out for their schools’ dance teams in suburban Minneapolis, but the league’s rules prohibit boys from competing on girls’ dance teams, according to the lawsuit. The suit argues the rules...

Perhaps the most daunting battle on the horizon for Generations X and Y is the uphill struggle for social security benefits. While our fathers and grandfathers have been paying into social security for the past 70 years and are currently being compensated, roughly in full, the situation is bleak for America’s youth. The baby boomers are now retiring, which means that massive sums of money are being poured out of social security. Meanwhile, Generations X and Y are working to support the huge baby boomer generation. It has been estimated that somewhere around the year 2016, the amount of money...

BUT IN POLITICAL MINEFIELD, REAL PLAN ISN'T FEASIBLE, ANALYSTS SAY NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - President Bush's vision of an "ownership society" is built more than anything else on a sweeping promise: that he will transform Social Security so younger workers can divert some of their payroll taxes into private investment accounts. At a rally in Pennsylvania last week, Bush declared, as he does at almost every campaign stop nowadays, that "younger workers ought to be able to take some of their taxes and set up a personal savings account, an account that they can call their own,...