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...Although Bradley wraps himself in a mantle of Scottish-Irish virtues, he cannot conceal the fact that he's just another tax-and-spend liberal Democrat. Doesn't he know the most venerated ideal of the Scottish Irish is thrift? SANDRA McKAY QUESENBERRY Clinton, Ohio...
...Although no suspects other than JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY have been named in the 1996 murder of their daughter JonBenet, a key figure in the investigation remains convinced that the killer was a pedophile bent on kidnapping who broke into the Boulder, Colo., home and assaulted the six-year-old while her family slept...
...Although Palahniuk agreed with Faludi's analysis of the problem, he said he thought weekly bareknuckle bouts would be cathartic. "Men need violence. We are very much still animals," he said from his home in Portland, Ore., the least manly city in North America. "We can channel violent feelings into working hard and buying things, but they keep popping up. We need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book...
...EDUCATION Although children are constantly exposed to sex in the media, many are still desperately short of reliable information on preventing pregnancy and disease. In a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 54% of high school kids say they wouldn't know what to do if they or someone they know were raped, 51% wouldn't know where to go to be tested for a sexually transmitted disease, and 46% don't know they can get birth control pills without a parent's approval...
...Although there were 10 pregnancies and 20 sexually transmitted diseases reported to the school nurse last year, the students do take precautions--and some feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex. "I told [my mom] the first time I had sex. She wasn't mad at all," says Sally. "She was excited for me and told me to be careful and all." Peter isn't as open with his parents. "They pretty much think that that's none of their business just as long as I'm being careful and using protection," he says. Once, though, his mom offered...