The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, August 12, 1994                TAG: 9408120677
SECTION: DAILY BREAK              PAGE: E01  EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   31 lines

TEENSPEAK IF YOU COULD FIX ONE WORLD PROBLEM TOMORROW, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

MEMO: [A related story appeared in the Daily Break section on Page B13 on the

same date.]

ILLUSTRATION: Color photos

``Gun control''

Brent Gardener, 12, rising seventh-grader at Rosemont Middle School

``Violence. I'd fix it because too many people are being killed.''

Holly Bojalad, 10, rising sixth-grader at Lake Taylor Middle School

``Child abuse. Little babies don't have time to live their lives. I

don't like when their parents hit them and bruise them.''

Paul clark, 12, rising seventh-grader at Ruffner Middle School

``I would find a cure for AIDS. Kids are dying because of it.''

Summer Stephenson, 11, rising seventh-grader at lake Taylor Middle

School

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