Young Adults

Generation Y is coming to a tourist attraction near you this summer.A survey released Wednesday by the Travel Industry Association of America and the American Automobile Association says young adults aged 18 to 24 will be out in droves this summer to take advantage of the country's great outdoors and theme parks.According to the survey, titled Travelometer Summer Travel Forecast, 84 percent of Generation Y members -- loosely defined as those born in the mid-1970s -- intend to hit the road in June, July and August, and 43 percent said they will travel more this summer than last.

Donell "Duck" White is 20 years old, a month away from his high school diploma, and he has a world of choices to make. Should he become a carpenter or an electrician? Or maybe do computer work now to finance more education later? No question marks are attached to one decision, however: No children. Not for a long time. Not until he is settled with a solid job. "They cost some money -- Pampers, booties, clothes. And they keep growing, growing, growing," White says firmly. "I'd be stuck -- I don't want to be stuck."

“The competition starts now,” Simon said at the beginning of the episode. I guess the last four weeks have been pretend. Sixty will become 24! No more joking around, this is serious.  We've got four groups; teens, young adults, over 25 and groups. Only six acts in each group will move on. Each group will get one mentor. I call this pop culture calculus 101. First group to get the news were the young adults. Right away, they called chetah face, I mean Cece Frey, up to tell her that she's through.

If the Rocky Run Tap and Grill has a theme, it could be sensory overload. Music, televisions, signs hanging from the ceilings, crayon-equipped tables, electronic games, music-themed seating areas, clapping waiters singing "Happy Birthday" and Italian lessons piped into the bathrooms will keep every patron awake and alert. To add to the busy visual atmosphere, hundreds of spicy sauce bottles are lined up on every flat surface around the booths. All of which, along with a moderately priced menu of chicken, ribs, steak, salads and sandwiches, make it a popular family place, as well as drawing a 20-something crowd to the glassed-in bar and outdoor patio.

WASHINGTON - Calling young voters - literally: Cell phones are the newest link to the political arena, as get-out-the-vote efforts begin using text messages to reach them. The technology, which lets users send and receive short text-based messages from their cell phones, hit the mainstream after the 2002 launch of television's American Idol. Viewers of the reality/talent show used text messages to vote for contestants after each episode. Voter drives want to apply that surge of text message popularity to the real world - and to November's presidential election.

SEOUL - Shin Sang-hyo is tall and thin. At 30, he still dresses like a student. In fact, he is a student, of sorts, although he is not registered at any school. Shin is a gosisaeng, a term referring to someone who has invested years of life in preparing for the bar or civil-service examinations. It is an all-day, all-year, year-after-year job. The payoff is a 4 percent chance of joining South Korea's elite. Here is how an estimated 100,000 Koreans are spending five years and more of their youth: Shin rises at 7:30 every morning.

Jean M. Yarborough, a community activist and founder of the Park Heights Networking Community Council, died Sunday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 79. For the past 24 years, Mrs. Yarborough worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life for residents - adults and children - of the city's Park Heights neighborhood, which had been her home since 1983, when she moved there from Columbia. In 1987, she established the Park Heights Networking Community Council, an umbrella organization that worked with other nearby neighborhood associations, and three years later she founded YAMD - Young Adults Making a Difference - an educational program for children and teenagers.

Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults The Dewey Decimal System got a rest for one night at the Howard County Central Library. Instead of looking for books, the more than 200 folks there were browsing silent auction tables and food stations -- at "Summerfest 2003" -- the annual fund-raiser for The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. Guests in casual summer dresses and sport shirts perused choices like wrap sandwiches, pate, chicken wings, mini crab cakes, baby lamb chops and homemade cookies, while a jazz trio played at one end of the room.

MILLIONS OF American GIs just back from World War II wasted little time in 1946 getting married, settling down and raising families -- a rush of new responsibilities that left the parents bewildered about the best way to handle child-rearing. That's why they eagerly embraced the common-sense teachings Dr. Benjamin M. Spock.Indeed Dr. Spock, who died Sunday at 94, was both a household word and the proxy pediatrician for that huge bulge in the nation's population known as baby boomers -- the surge of children conceived by returning GIs. He gave young couples reassurance and sound guidance on child-rearing that became the bible to a generation of moms and dads.

Maryland state workers - and their family members - could win a college scholarship for fall 2013 offered by the State Employees Credit Union. The credit union typically awards $15,000 to $20,000 in scholarships annually. Last year, it awarded nine scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $2,500, said spokesman Ray Weiss. The deadline to apply is April 12 th . Here's more info about the qualificaitons. Applicants must write an essay. This year's assignment: “Recent innovations and new technology, like “EMV chip” credit cards, Google Wallet, PayPal, Amazon 1-Click smart phone card readers, and Near Field Communications, make it easier than ever before to purchase items.