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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 14
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- Sophfronia Scott and David Gross are among TIME's youngest
- journalists, but they already know how to spot a story their
- older colleagues might overlook. The result is this week's
- cover report on the twentysomething crowd, the little noticed
- generation that has bobbed along in the backwash of the much
- larger baby-boom group. The two TIME reporter-researchers
- brought firsthand experience to the task: Scott is 23 and Gross
- is 24. "David and I knew that we had different ideas, tastes
- and goals than baby boomers do," says Scott, who wrote the
- story with Gross. "When we began interviewing other people
- roughly our age, we were surprised to find how much we had in
- common."
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- Scott, a native of Lorain, Ohio, came to TIME after
- graduating from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in English and
- American literature. Gross, from Long Island, N.Y., joined the
- staff later, after completing his major in Latin American
- studies at Brown University. Like some of his peers, Gross took
- a semester off before finishing college; he spent the time
- touring Central America. "My father used to complain that I had
- no long-term plans," says Gross. "When I told him last month
- about this story, he thought it was great. Now he knows that
- lots of other parents worried about the same kinds of things."
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- Chicago-based senior correspondent William McWhirter, 48,
- brought a different perspective. Says he: "The first big
- project I worked on for TIME back in 1963 was a story about my
- generation. I remember sitting around the floor in college
- dorms, asking a bunch of people my age what they wanted out of
- life. And here I was again, 27 years later, asking people the
- same age the same kinds of questions, but getting different
- answers."
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- This week's cover features five twentysomething adults. From
- left, they are: John Neubauer, 27, of Baltimore, a teacher;
- Raul Alvarez, 23, an auto mechanic in Ventura, Calif.;
- Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver, a communications and business
- student; Sonja Henderson, 23, an art student in Chicago; and
- David Robinson, 25, a graduate student in English at the
- University of California, Berkeley.
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- -- Louis A. Weil III
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