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...Sharon’s right-wing leadership despite serving in the coalition government. The Middle East peace process would also probably do better under former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, widely perceived as the front-runner for the Labor Party leadership. Ben-Ami enjoys the advantages of a Moroccan birth and an Oxford education and is seen as a more intelligent version of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He is by no means progressive, nor even as conciliatory as Peres, but he does believe in compromise and in the necessity of an agreement...
TEEN PARENTS While U.S. teens are no more likely to be sexually active than their European or Canadian counterparts, they are much more likely to become parents. The birth rate for American teens last year was 48.7 births for every 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 19. By contrast the birth rates in France and Sweden were 10 births per 1,000. A new study from the Alan Guttmacher Institute finds that sexually active American teens are far less likely to use birth control than their foreign peers and less likely to have an abortion...
...bear his name,” Gomes said. “And I cherish it as if it were mine by birth...
...party conversation last Saturday night drifted through several topics before ending, inevitably, on sex. One guy, who had previously challenged a female friend of mine on the effectiveness of condoms, admitted he was having unprotected sex. Although his sexual partner was taking birth-control, the two had, on several occasions, engaged in what he deemed “casual sex”: sex without any other protection. But he had nothing to fear, of course, because “Harvard students must be clean...
This secular argument is compelling when based on the history of Christmas. None of the complainers would be able to find any scriptural references to decorated trees being used to celebrate Jesus’ birth. The practice did not gain cultural appeal among Christians until the 16th century in Germany and the 19th in England and America (long after the coming of Christianity...