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A Great American.


Dear Teacher,

We have a compelling issue for you. A JS reporter speaks with teens in Uganda, and we examine the thorny thorn·y  
adj. thorn·i·er, thorn·i·est
1. Full of or covered with thorns.

2. Spiny.

3. Painfully controversial; vexatious: a thorny situation; thorny issues.
 matters of teen smoking and the indictment indictment (ĭndīt`mənt), in criminal law, formal written accusation naming specific persons and crimes. Persons suspected of crime may be rendered liable to trial by indictment, by presentment, or by information.  of Vice President Cheney's former Chief of Staff, I. Lewis Libby. Most important, we honor an achievement of a great American, Rosa Parks Noun 1. Rosa Parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
Parks
. It was 50 years ago on December 1 that she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in , bus, sparking the modern civil rights movement. Her recent passing makes her story all the more timely.

Suzanne McCabe, Editor

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Author:McCabe, Suzanne
Publication:Junior Scholastic
Date:Nov 28, 2005
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