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<p>Here's a two-word phrase you don't see or hear much anymore: young adults. It sank beneath the waves of a more recent, more powerful force: the "youth culture."</p> <p>The youth culture in America is a lifestyle, emphasizing the one thing that youth tend to be very good at: thinking about themselves. Pridefully inner-directed, it opens itself to the outer world primarily in two ways: style and "attitude." Membership in the youth culture is defined by mass marketers as a "demographic," which begins about the age of 12 and runs without interruption to the age of 35. A "young adult" is an anachronism.</p>

LUIS PALAU BRINGS THE GOOD NEWS TO FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH This wasn't their typical spring break in Fort Lauderdale TBN 2-hour Beachfest Highlights Special 5-7 PM Eastern Time Saturday, March 29, 2003 check local listings or click here  for more information. FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (March 25, 2003) -- Two days before Beachfest with Luis Palau began, America went to war with Iraq. Throughout the March 22-23 weekend, Luis Palau turned the news uppermost in Americans' minds to an eternal angle. " There's a war going on in Iraq," Luis Palau said Saturday night to the crowd packed from sidewalk to...

Texas college student Amber Kulhanek maintains she is not a wild party girl. But a $5 million default judgment she won against a video company that filmed her topless was set aside in March. A judge determined that defendants in the invasion of privacy case were not properly served. Kulhanek claims that she was coerced into being filmed, topless, while celebrating her 21st birthday on South Padre Island, Texas. Images of the event showed up in cable television commercials for "Wild Party Girls," a video montage that retails for $19.97. According to Kulhanek, video producers were in cahoots with bartenders,...

Second death attributed to Spring Break violence 03/18/2002 Associated Press SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - A 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed over the weekend, the second death reported in a rash of Spring Break violence in South Texas. Jesus Espinoza of Alamo was pronounced dead at Brownsville Medical Center at 8:10 p.m. Sunday. Police said two San Antonio men had been arrested connection with the killing so far, and other suspects and witnesses were being sought. On Friday, 18-year-old Jerry Martinez of Aransas Pass died at the wheel of his car on Mustang Island in Port Aransas when a...

Warning, spring breakers and parents: The American Medical Association has grave concerns about what some may consider a simple fun-in-the-sun vacation. The AMA recently issued a report saying the antics that routinely go along with spring break may be a hazard to spring break-goers’ health. Their study says parents don’t know the level of drinking and the sex that goes on. And that’s not all. “There are a lot of people who come here strictly to prey on (students),” said police Lt. James Merrill of Panama City Beach, Fla. Police and tourism officials in Panama City Beach are expecting more...