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All-consuming adolescence

Advertisers are aiming at an increasingly younger market, and the kids are buying in

By Don Aucoin
Globe Staff / December 15, 2004

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Before she was even in high school, Miranda Zappala began to hear the siren song of Madison Avenue. And that ubiquitous youth-marketing tune -- whose lyrics consist of ''Buy, buy, buy" -- has only grown louder for Zappala and the rest of her generation. (Full article: 2126 words)

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