1.   But the self-esteem of poor youngsters is a subject that draws yawns at best from the vast majority of Americans.

2.   He made literature come alive for poor youngsters at a school where they must walk through a metal detector to get to class.

3.   He often took a carload of poor youngsters to see out-of-town fights.

4.   Others will indict a school bureaucracy more intent on satisfying community power brokers than on devising strategies to salvage poor youngsters at highest risk of failure.

5.   Poor youngsters are more apt to be awed by the accoutrements of well-being, at least when first encountered.

6.   Searching for reasons, he mentioned research showing that poor youngsters have less exposure to language and reading.

7.   The latter, it will be remembered, was about poor black youngsters taken into a wealthy home.

8.   The project hopes to infuse the centers with financial aid and hands-on technical expertise to create high-quality child care that will make a difference for poor youngsters.

9.   Johannesburg Mayor Isaac Mogase recounted how, as a poor youngster, he often watched the Treason Trial proceedings.

10.   Mark Norton, who works in the British High Commission in Ottawa, said the original home-children policy was intended to help poor youngsters and orphans.