Using the case of male urban youth in Monrovia, Utas describes the rise of Liberia's youthmen: “Due to economic crisis and increasing dependence on the central state in the 1980s an ever-growing number of young people in urban and semi-urban environments were excluded even from the possibilities of becoming adults.

It is lawful to examin what is the eſſential nature of God. It is lawful to look into what God wil do, that we may ſee his attributes ſhining forth in them : But to examin the truth of what he hath promiſed, by that which is eſſential and natural unto God, is for a man to go out of the way that is ſaving.

A couple of minutes later, in the spiderless, spotless powder bath, as Jane washed her hands at the sink, she met her reflection eye-to-eye.

I got the magnitude right, but the sign was wrong.