Word: contently
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...question that has been debated by parents, psychologists and media critics for years is whether such racy content has an adverse effect on young viewers. Now researchers at the Rand Corp. say they have documented for the first time how such exposure can influence teen pregnancy rates. They found that teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach...
...relationship between exposure of this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied...
...Aides say that Obama in these final days is content in the knowledge that he has done everything he could to win this race, given his all - or, to use an oft-quote sports analogy, left everything on the field. If he loses, they say, his worry won't be about what he could have done differently but about the generation of young voters that he has inspired and the opportunity the country may have lost in keeping them engaged...
...eventually—Smith’s echoing voice. Already it becomes clear that The Cure are enjoying the technology the recording studio has to offer. This fixation on a pop sound has created a strange dichotomy between the subject matter of many of their songs and their lyrical content. On third track “Reasons Why,” Smith opens with a typically morose line—“I won’t try to bring you down about my suicide”—and continues, “I won?...
...While those same notes later reveal that the discs were also intended to be spun on BBC 1, most of the albums in the seasonally released serial are well worth the download (and they’re free on DFA’s website). While the content of some of these mixes can be a little dance-heavy at times, the imperfections are more than made up for by the tracks’ phrasing and a compositional sensibility that deftly complements the songs being built upon.Featured on the Winter 2005 album is Chicago?...