Based on THE BODY PROJECT by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, 8th graders learn to defend themselves against the barrage of media messages afflicting youth self-confidence and achievement. MILL VALLEY, Calif., Nov.

He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt. On Saturday, British adventurer Jason Lewis finally came home, completing a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

By Elaine Sciolino New York Times News Service PARIS -- Once again, students are on the barricades in France, evoking comparisons to the uprising of May 1968. But this is not a revolt. It is not 1968 revisited.