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	<passage mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/2437.mp3" title="Teen Life"><![CDATA[<div id="passage"><p><strong>Mark:</strong> Hey, Mike. Here's a question. Do you
  think teenagers these days have a better life
than say we did when we were teenagers?</p>
<p><strong>Mike:</strong> Well, that's a debate that's been
  going on since the days of Socrates and
  Plato. I think, but again and probably like
  Socrates had said himself,  &amp; quot;You know kids today are a lot
  different than they were when we were younger &amp; quot;, that's for sure.
  Whether it's better or not, I personally think we had it better
  because we weren't stuck behind a computer or behind a TV
  set all day. I think we tended to do things more outside but I think
  whether you're a teenager now or then, probably the same kind of
issues went on in your head.</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> Yeah, that's the way I feel about it actually.</p>
<p><strong>Mike: </strong>Think so?</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> Well, these kind of debates or these kind of issues, I feel
like there is no better or worse. It's just different, you know.</p>
<p><strong>Mike:</strong> How do you think it's different?</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> Well, in obvious ways like the technology now. Like I can
  remember the first, my first microwave and my family's first VCR
  and those were you know, pretty exciting moments. Yeah,
absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Mike:</strong> How's about going to the library to have to get research.</p>
<p><strong>Mark: </strong>Yeah! That's interesting but people don't do that much
  anymore and I don't even realize that but yeah the technology is
  definitely better now. But it's more addictive. I mean kids don't
  play outside. They just play video games all day and you know, I
wasn't allowed to stay inside so much when I was a kid.</p>
<p><strong>Mike:</strong> Same here. I was sort of forced to go outside but also,
  although, I guess you could make an argument and say the kids
  do kind of play with each other when they get on those, the
  internet gaming sites and there's a whole group of them from
  Morocco to Mexico to Canada to the States, all playing online. Of
  course, they never see each other but they're all trying to kill each
other.</p></div>]]>
	
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