Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.
It is this group [...]
delivered a speech entitled “The Government by the Governed†where I said that our government was being run not by the public officials themselves but by the people they were governing. I said it was we ourselves, the sovereign people as the Constitution described us, who were the real rulers of our country through the [...]
Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]
Scott Piechocinski roamed the rows of a CarMax dealership in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent afternoon, searching for something small to replace his son’s 2001 Nissan Pathfinder sport/utility vehicle.
He’s not alone: As gas prices marched higher and now top $3.50 per gallon across the nation, car buyers across the country increasingly are abandoning SUVs and [...]
“It is 2008 and never has so much been spent in information security. Year after year, more and more security hardware and software is purchased, more and more security professionals are hired, and more security is done; yet things are not getting better. Every indicator, every pundit, everything points to more security breaches, vulnerabilities and [...]
Information An online advertisement with men praising Viagra to the tune of an Elvis Presley song has drawn objections from U.S. regulators, who said drugmaker Pfizer Inc failed to list the impotence drug’s risks.
Pfizer said the omission of side effects warnings was due to a technical error on CNN’s Web site, www.cnn.com, which ran the [...]
Dominating internet advertising and search have allowed the company to embark on a seemingly endless expansion into all manner of internet products, including email, video sharing, online mapping, mobile phone software, social networking and office productivity.
But while Googles revenues in 2007 were 37 times greater than in 2002 and its headcount has ballooned to well [...]
They are looking for evidence the girl, who allegedly had a baby at 15, and 50-year-old Dale Barlow were married. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval.
Allison Palmer, the prosecutor working on the case, said other law enforcement agencies “know where (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but [...]
Who or what is God? Does he, she or it exist? What happens after
you die? Is there any meaning to life? What does the wisdom of the
ages teach us? And what about love? These are some of the questions
canvassed in this rambling monster of a novel, a family saga (of
sorts) spanning three generations.
All this sounds [...]
I LIKED the ‘80s. In fact, I loved them. It was a formative
decade for us gen Xers. It’s inspiring that we, as a people, were
open-minded enough to embrace stonewash as a fashion statement.
Yet, just as we have consigned that fashion faux pas to the
sartorial scrap heap, so it is our mission to ensure it is [...]
