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12-28-2007, 03:09 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash.

And, perhaps, a crime....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/12/28/teen.brain.ap/index.html