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Jaynes was a registered member of NAMBLA, the National Man/Boy Love Association, an organization that advocates revoking the age of consent for sex. Police found NAMBLA literature in the car where Curley died, and Jaynes allegedly accessed the NAMBLA website from a Boston Public Library computer terminal just hours before Curley's abduction. The NAMBLA paraphernalia included articles arguing for the elimination of age in consent laws and pornographic drawings of young boys engaged in sexual acts. A detective who infiltrated NAMBLA several years ago, attending meetings and talking to members undercover, told CNN that NAMBLA members have been known...
...made in "Nearly Half of Harvard Students Binge Drink" (News, Feb. 5). In a paragraph explaining how much better Harvard students are at dealing with the effects of binge drinking, the article said that "only seven students out of 353 surveyed said they had sex while too drunk to consent...
...Less than ten percent of students said they have engaged in unplanned sexual activity because of alcohol, compared to 23 percent of students nationally. Only seven students out of 353 surveyed said they had sex while too drunk to consent, and only one reported getting in trouble with police because of alcohol use, while eight percent of the nation's students said they...
...parliamentary vote, Prime Minister Tony Blair's massed ranks of Labour Party deputies voted to ban the practice outright. It isn't the law yet--the House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings and large, expensive empires...
...Wisconsin, Thompson approved bills restricting access to abortion and family planning services, including a 24-hour mandatory waiting period for women seeking abortions, a parental consent law, and a ban on certain abortion procedures that was eventually reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But Thompson has been quieter than Ashcroft about his opposition to abortion. That reticence continues today; if Thompson is looking for a fight from his Senate panel, he's doing it quietly. When asked during his hearings whether he would seek to repeal FDA approval of the controversial "abortion pill," RU-486, Thompson replied...