Teacher's edition.

• Author: Rebhun, Elliott
• Position: Multitasking teenagers, child marriages, census, and 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks - Editorial - Brief article

Allison Miller, the high school freshman from California on our cover, sends and receives 27,000 texts in a month--or about 900 per day. She's part of a generation of young people raised in--and consumed by--the digital world. Our story looks at how all the multitasking teenagers do with cellphones and computers may be rewiring their brains and making it harder for them to concentrate in general.

In Afghanistan, more than 40 percent of girls are forced into marriage before age 18 (some as young as 8), and they face flogging, mutilation, even death, if they resist or run away. The Taliban--the radical Islamic group the U.S. has been battling since 2001--has made life particularly hard for girls and women, but the problem of child marriage is deeply rooted in Afghan tribal culture dating back thousands of years.

Filling out those 2010 Census forms...