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From last week's New York Times Magazine, an article on the dating habits of contemporary teens, or rather non-dating habits.

It's not that teenagers have given up on love altogether. Most of the high-school students I spent time with said they expected to meet the right person, fall in love and marry -- eventually. It's just that high school, many insist, isn't the place to worry about that. High school is about keeping your options open. Relationships are about closing them. As these teenagers see it, marriage and monogamy will seamlessly replace their youthful hookup careers sometime in their mid- to late 20's -- or, as one high-school boy from Rhode Island told me online, when ''we turn 30 and no one hot wants us anymore.''

Be prepared to go "Ew" a lot.

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From 2002, Chris Suellentrop's assessment of Harry Potter: Pampered jock, patsy, fraud.