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...Having secured a brown paper bag of french fries, Alex heads back outside. He wears Timberlands, baggy black jeans and a big black sweatshirt. He is very tall. He also clearly runs the show. He walks over to the curb to talk to Jason, who is sitting on a short purple-framed bike, one foot on the ground and the other on a pedal. A bunch of girls on the corner sing, at full-throttle to no one in particular, "Happy birthday dear whoever." Then a short, stocky one jumps into the middle of the gang and, turning in circles...
...Alex and Jason laugh. Jason adjusts the white bandana he wears folded like a sweatband across his forehead. A boy they call Crazylikes emerges from inside and walks to the curb. He gestures toward one of the shrieking girls, who has a bright blue comb stuck in the back of her hair...
...Then Crazylikes notices a bus filling with people one block back toward school. He takes off sprinting, the yellow soles of his sneakers flashing up from the pavement. As the bus pulls away from the curb, Crazylikes darts out between two parked cars and runs directly at the front of the bus, waving his arms. Alex and Jason cheer, but the bus swerves out into another lane and keeps moving. Crazylikes trudges back toward his friends. More guys come out of Angelo's. The young Spanish guy who works the counter emerges behind them and beckons Alex around...
...pregnancy rates in McLennan County, a publicly funded group has mounted a controversial community-wide crackdown on teen sex known as "abstinence-only education." Its proponents argue that giving kids an unambiguous abstinence message--rather than telling them to wait but distributing condoms for when they don't--will curb teen pregnancies, decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and make for "sexually healthier" adults. And they warn against a strain of human papilloma virus that is linked to cervical cancer--and is not prevented by condoms. Opponents of abstinence-only education, however, call it "erotophobic" and fear...
Weigel described failed attempts to curb China's human rights violations as the Pope's "single biggest public disappointment...