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	Great teen journalism by and about Los Angeles teens.
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	<title>My summers in Taiwan</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Leslie, 17, wishes she could spend every summer in the country where her family is from because she feels so at home there.<br><br>There is an openness that makes me feel like I belong, even though I did not grow up there. On my last trip two years ago, I was visiting an old coal mining town, and I passed by a coal cart covered with small tubes of bamboo. On the bamboo tubes, people had written their wishes in black Sharpie for everyone to see.  ]]></description>
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	<title>Playlist blog</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Check out our playlist blog to see what Melissa thinks about when it's dark and she's alone. ]]></description>
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	<title>You call that dancing?</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Jacky, 17, says that you don't have to bump and grind to have fun on the dance floor. ]]></description>
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	<title>Now serving vegetarians</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ There wasn’t much for Ashley, 17, to eat at lunch until the cafeteria changed. ]]></description>
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	<title>Mom, I&#8217;m praying for you</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Ben, 17, had just gotten close to his mom and then he worried he was going to lose her to cancer. ]]></description>
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	<title>You can lean on me</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ I wasn’t sure how to help my friend after she was sexually molested. ]]></description>
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	<title>Unexpected pets</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Leslie's family bought their chickens for the eggs, but they became part of her family. ]]></description>
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	<title>Desperate to get out</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ A girl's family wanted to leave their violent neighborhood. ]]></description>
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	<title>It took effort to get the nutrition info for my school&#8217;s food</title>
	<link>http://www.layouth.com/it-took-effort-to-get-the-nutrition-info-for-my-schools-food</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[ I’ve been eating cafeteria food since eighth grade, when I signed up for the free and reduced-price lunch program. I used to bring a sandwich to school. But since money was tight at home, my parents believed it was a good idea to sign up. 
 I didn’t like school food and thought it was [...] ]]></description>
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	<title>Book reviews (Summer 2010)</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[ Reading is the best cure for boredom and our teen writers recommend I Am the Cheese and The Brothers Karamazov. ]]></description>
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