41.   But Yoshinao Hirano, an education professor at Shinshu University, said Japanese youth are, in their hearts, as capable of violence as their American peers.

42.   But youth is quite fragile, much like a greenhouse plant getting its first taste of the elements.

43.   But while you might expect teens to be relatively sexually inexperienced, youth is no requirement when it comes to the V-word on TV.

44.   Bystanders said the youths were members of street gangs.

45.   But youth is resilient.

46.   But youth is where the focus must be because most smokers start smoking as teen-agers.

47.   Carson Davis said he permitted his son to travel the national circuit as a teen because the youth was exceptionally mature.

48.   Craig S. Rosebraugh, a spokesman for ELF in Portland, Ore., said the youths were strangers to him.

49.   Despite all the concern over materialism undermining the values of children, researchers say that they are seeing anecdotal evidence that more youths are active in volunteering and giving.

50.   Each bombshell had admitted to the other that her youth had been much less glamorous than nonblondes might imagine.