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Over the past seven years, women’s lightweight head coach Cecile Tucker has molded the lightweight crew program into the championship contender it is today. Upon the birth of her second child, however, Tucker will hand the reins over to coaches Will Stevens, who will direct the varisty, and Seth Davis, who will head the novice and walk-on programs. This represents a major transition for the entire team, especially the upperclassmen who have worked under Tucker.“It’s definitely going to be a big change,” says sophomore Lizzy Mazjoub...
...that women breast-feed for a relatively short duration? The vast majority of mothers in the U.S. wean a baby by six months. In contrast, most mothers in developing countries still practice the age-old custom of nursing a child for two to four years. A woman need not birth a baker's dozen to lessen her risk for breast cancer; breast-feeding beyond one year might very well benefit both her and her child. Lisa Wheeler, Birmingham, Alabama...
...editors pored over the archives of Time and Life magazines, the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress and of state and regional historical societies, and rarely seen private collections to produce a comprehensive visual chronicle of America's journey from its birth as an idea 400 years ago in the Jamestown settlement to how we vote on American Idol. The more than 600 images range from the intimate back rooms of history to the grandest of public moments. We see a young Teddy Roosevelt watching through a window as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege marches down New York City...
When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11, the response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids...
...over and over again, that this does not increase sexual activity," said Pat Patterson, the medical director of School-Based Health Centers. And most parents, in fact, WANT kids to get both messages; a 2005 survey from the Pew Forum found that 78% want public schools to teach about birth control, and 76% think schools should teach kids to abstain from sex until marriage. Three quarters of high school kids themselves favor that message...