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Sporty young man.
2010: A young woman stands before President Sirleaf and gives her testimony of how she and her siblings live together, their father and mother died during the war.
All of these great works by great people aimed at getting young people to where we want to get them globally, I think, has failed.
Girls as young as 12 being prostituted for less than a dollar a night.
Several years ago, a few friends of mine decided we needed to bridge the disconnect between our generation and the generation of young women.
And some of those girls who walked in the room very shy have taken bold steps, as young mothers, to go out there and advocate for the rights of other young women.
One young woman I met, teen mother of four, never thought about finishing high school, graduated successfully; never thought about going to college, enrolled in college.
Angry, frustrated, really upset about the state of her society and the state of her children, this young girl started a movement, a movement of ordinary women banding together to build peace.
This young woman wished also to go to school.
This young woman wished for other things to happen, it happened for her.
Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate.
They were able to mobilize young women.
With body parts from her victims, she delicately assembles a barrel-like home feeding her young until they can drift off and survive on their own.
Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile communication and I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged in lives.
And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance.
One young girl posted the last message she ever heard from her grandmother.
What you have here is two young chimpanzees who have a box, and the box is too heavy for one chimp to pull in.
Actually, the way to study empathy in human children is to instruct a family member to act distressed, and then to see what young children do.
In fact, she's the one who taught me as a young girl how to read.
In that same slum in Nairobi, I met a young businesswoman, and she was making backpacks out of her home.
She and her young kids would go to the local jeans factory and collect scraps of denim.
There's also parents who participated who wouldn't let their children participate because they thought they were too young to decide for themselves.
And because fertility rates fell across that very same period that life expectancy was going up, that pyramid that has always represented the distribution of age in the population, with many young ones at the bottom winnowed to a tiny peak of older people who make it and survive to old age, is being reshaped into a rectangle.
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.
And you see they have pretty similar death rates among young kids and old people.
A recent study showed that the young generation alone is spending over eight hours a day online.
Why, for example, are pensioners much happier than the young unemployed?
The reason, I think, is that the pensioners believe they've chosen to be pensioners, whereas the young unemployed feel it's been thrust upon them.
That's what drives my interest in projects like the TV series "Keeping Score" with the San Francisco Symphony that looks at the backstories of music, and working with the young musicians at the New World Symphony on projects that explore the potential of the new performing arts centers for both entertainment and education.
And I promised myself all those years ago as a young, public defender that I would never, ever forget that feeling.
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