Martha Irvine

Youth push for louder conversation about suicide

By MARTHA IRVINE , Associated Press CHICAGO - The hope is that a public discussion between young people and the teachers and counselors who work with them could inspire peers in distress to get help. She's on the girls...

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Tough Political Realities Quiet Youth 'Obamamania'

Will Young Obama Supporters Be Part Of The 'change' They Want? "They're supportive, but in a bystander kind of way," says Laura Katz Olson, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Erin Carroll, a...

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Will young Obama supporters be part of the 'change' they want? Or let someone else do it?

By MARTHA IRVINE , Associated Press CHICAGO - Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. But months after the election, some are wondering where that fervor has gone. Young...

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School gives chronically ill students a chance (AP)

AP – In this photo taken May. 19, 2009, Cecilia Reyes, a student in DePaul University's Chronic Illness Initiative … By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer Martha Irvine, Ap National Writer – 34 mins ago CHICAGO – Cecilia Reyes...

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The re-invention of the movie theater

Not all of us will agree that the changes are for the better, but an article by Martha Irvine of the Associated Press highlights the efforts of the movie theater industry to survive and thrive in the face of competition posed...

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Movie theaters evolve to compete with small screens

By MARTHA IRVINE • The Associated Press • September 5, 2009 CHICAGO — Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is...

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Big screen evolves to compete with small

Movie theaters have the ability to continually remake themselves and find new ways to generate revenue, by introducing everything from the multiplex and more elaborate concessions to lengthy pre-show advertising.

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Burlesque: The Big Tease

In the Depression-era days of Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque dancing was about as naughty, and as nude, as it got in public. The emphasis was on the tease more than the strip, until Playboy and harder- core pornography came along in...

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Obama Nod Linked Kennedy to Younger Generation

For young generation, Ted Kennedy was living link to a family known only as history By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO August 27, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment For young Americans unfamiliar with terms...

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For young generation, Ted Kennedy was living link to a family known only as history

By MARTHA IRVINE , Associated Press CHICAGO - But when he endorsed Barack Obama and later gave a stirring convention speech, Kennedy truly raised his profile with a generation wholly removed from Camelot. Generation Xers, who...

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