The birth rate is high and the youth, idle and rootless, are prime targets for the strict anti-establishment tenets of the Chechen fundamentalists.

Then I was an idle, but eager youth walking out from London; now I was a most reluctantly busy middle-aged person, coming in from the country.

Old men and children, young wives and idle youths, Han and Hung Mao alike, all stood there, gawping and chattering.

He went straight to the pubs and discos where idle youth from distressed homes were hanging out and gained their trust with love and caring.

If you need an odd job done this summer, don't bother trying to whistle up an idle youth.

Mostly but not always of the purse-snatching ilk, it is a serious and continuing problem in a nation with 40 percent unemployment and a vast, idle youth.

But the Chain Gang was not a collection of idle youths seeking incidental thrills.

What's more, the program was one solution to authorities' worries about the dangers of idle youths.

Crime and drug abuse, lures of idle youth, are already urgent issues.