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"The campsite is not far from where Smith killed two Maine hikers in 1981. The two hikers were walking the trail to raise money for retarded and troubled youths."

Good thing they didn't say mentally handicapped, I might have taken the editor seriously.


Mentally retarded is actually the official term, not mentally handicapped. No state that I know of, and nothing in federal disability and special education law, uses the term "mentally handicapped". It falls in the same literary genre as "troubled youth".
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