THE RECENT alarming events at Gloucester High School should be a wake-up call about the precarious sexual health of our nation’s youth.
Despite our country’s wealth and educational resources, the United States leads all industrialized Western nations in rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This epidemic is fueled by inaccurate sexual information, lack of [...]

Local caterer and chef Sam Namakaeha says he’s going to bring Hawaiian cooking to a new generation of chefs. The Molokai resident says he will be taking on his first class of 30 from Aka’ula School when classes resume at the end of June.
Each class will be four hours, says Namakaeha. Students will learn a [...]

European hotels, car rental companies and government tourism agencies are ramping up marketing and turning to creative payment plans, complimentary cellphone use and deep discounts to salvage the summer travel business.
These efforts aimed at American tourists are intensifying as fluctuating exchange rates, rising airfares, and a gloomy economic outlook threaten to deter the world’s most [...]

haven’t been in school for a decade now, but I still remember every outfit, of every first day, of every grade. And I’m not alone.
“Oh, throughout the ages!” says Adrian Mainella, host of Fashion File, who was already shopping at Harry Rosen by the eighth grade. “You tell me what age you want, and I’ll [...]

Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]

The first issue to settle in discussing aboriginal affairs is who defines the issues and who is supposed to solve them.
Pierre Trudeau was quoted in Morris Shumiatcher’s book Welfare: The Hidden Backlash, as saying “all of us feel a sense of guilt, not so much toward the Indian, as toward the fact that we haven’t [...]

As college and high school seniors graduate from schools across the state this spring, lawmakers are reminding them to take advantage of a new law that will allow many to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they turn 25.
The new law, which passed in the General Assembly last year and went into effect [...]

Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.
The results of the study appear in the May issue of the education journal Phi Delta Kappan.
“These data provide [...]

Cover: While Nicole Richie is stuck at home supervising the care and feeding of baby Harlow, Harlow’s daddy is out partying up a storm with the likes of Lindsay Lohan. Nicole is in tears. And, as you well know, someone of Nicole’s size is in constant danger of dehydration from just the slightest bit of [...]

What is not immediately obvious as you stroll into the open-plan, 17th-floor offices of Tommy Hilfiger, brightly lit by windows that stare down New York’s Hudson River, is whether you are entering the home of a fashion house or a music label. Sure there are racks of pick’n’mix clothes rolled across the aisles and a [...]