| Sex lessons must start at age five
This article, and many of the posters, make the simplistic and incorrect link between formal school based sex education and early pregnancies. Research suggests that the influence of specialized sex education programs are probably less important than the influences of family, local culture and mass media. The key is the cultural influence around growing children, with a media and culture that continually glamourizes sexual behaviour and a large proportion of parents who behave like animals on heat, is it surprising that kids grow up having sex before they are ready for the consequences. And if you think that Mrs MacTavish at the local Primary School talking about relationships and sex is going to have a big effect against these wicked influences you are kidding yourselves. .
The Go-Go's still got the beat
When the Go-Go's released "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981, they couldn't have predicted how successful, and influential, the album would become. On the strength of the hits "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," the Go-Go's became the first all-female band to top the Billboard charts, inspiring young women around the world to rock out themselves. The group went on to score the hit "Vacation," its video becoming an MTV sensation back when music videos still mattered. Nearly 30 years later, the Go-Go's have still got the beat. Lead singer Belinda Carlisle — on her cell phone en route from Austin to Dallas — talks to us about posing for Playboy and how the band has stayed together all this time (with a few breakups in between). (Founding member Jane Wiedlin recently was forced to drop out of the tour because of her mother's failing health).
Veterans go to court over atomic tests
In 1988, at least 62,000 of those U.S. soldiers and widows became eligible for a one-time payment of up to $75,000 (U.S.) if they suffered from one or more of 16 diseases shown to be the result of radiation exposure, including leukemia and cancers of the liver, thyroid, breast, esophagus, stomach and small intestine. .
For an impoverished beauty queen, a stark choice: sex work or no work
What Natasha does on the bed in the dingy room with flaking orange paint so shames her she cannot bring herself to use the word. She calls it "so and so" and sells it here from midday to midnight, six days a week. On a very good day she makes £45. With each 30-minute session earning £2.50 that works out at 18 different men, many drunk, some violent. She tries to forget the very good days. "I don't want to be with a strange man who wants to kiss your whole body. Some suck you up and leave red marks. It's ugly." Natasha shuddered. "Ugly, ugly, ugly." Three years ago she won two beauty contests and was runner-up in another two, including Miss Best Legs, on Nicaragua's impoverished Caribbean coast. With dreams of modelling she boarded a bus for the distant capital, Managua.
Daytona 500 Wrap
He's a perfect second or third driver to have in your lineup next to other superstars on your squad. Of course, there were several other prominent story lines in a Daytona 500 race that was every bit as exciting as hoped. There were 16 different leaders, the second most in the history of the Daytona 500. The 42 lead changes at the start/finish line were the most since 2001.The Car of Tomorrow certainly produced compelling racing at Daytona, and most drivers appear ready to meet the challenge of using it over a full season. We should see more races filled with lots of passing and lead changes in 2008. Yet there were other results from Sunday that left fantasy players either frustrated or disappointed, and must be addressed. .
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