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...people could show the South African Parliament what not to do with a banana and a condom - and get a standing ovation. But political satirist and provocateur Pieter-Dirk Uys did just that with a special parliamentary performance of his one-man show Foreign Aids earlier this year. And at London's Tricycle Theatre this week, audiences are responding as enthusiastically to the play, in which Uys transforms himself into a handful of characters - or caricatures - to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance surrounding Africa's AIDS crisis. His onstage incarnations include Dr. Thaboo MacBeki - any resemblance to South African President...
CLASSMATES Familiarity breeds respect--or at least safer sex. Teens are more likely to use condoms or other contraceptives when their sexual partners are the same age and at the same school, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. The younger partner in a mismatched couple, the researchers suggest, may have a harder time saying no to unprotected sex. Condom use increases the longer the relationship lasts and the more teens characterize it as romantic, the study found...
...Bannon, Andover '65, used to carry a false identification card. Most of the information on it was fabricated, but at an age when personal identity is usually up for grabs anyway, this would hardly have troubled a prep-school junior. A fake ID, taken in combination with the condom customarily nestled next to it, represented pure possibility--early admission to adulthood with all its intensely anticipated pleasures. Everyone Bannon knew at Andover owned such a card, and for a good reason that we'll get to in a moment...
...credits the downturn to changing expanded economic opportunities for teens during the boom times of the 1990s and the increase in condom use by teens as awareness of HIV and AIDS grew...
...teachers are learning a lot b) kids hate the animated Captain Condom character c) abstinence always gets a laugh d) they reduce teen pregnancy rates...