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Then there is the obvious danger of disease. A study of high school alcohol-dependent students published this month by the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center found that 1 in 5 girls was infected with the herpes virus. Drunken women also suffer disproportionately from rape and sexual assault. "[Women] walking back to campus intoxicated wear a neon sign on their back: Mug me. Victimize me," says Georgetown's Kilcarr. Packaged like that, the antidrinking message has some bite. But for much of the past decade, many colleges have aimed their prevention campaigns exclusively at men. One favorite strategy has been...
...recent achievements in the alcohol-consumption department. Second-wave feminists, meaning those who forged the movement in the 1970s, were, as third wavers never tire of pointing out, just a wee bit on the puritanical side--washing down their tofu with Celestial Seasonings and constantly harping on the danger of date rape. So if you're 17 and want to express your grrrl-ish toughness, while simultaneously kicking sand in Mom's face, what better way than to go out and get "roofed" on a pint of cranberry vodka? Just as the daughters of suffragists became the cigarette-smoking flappers...
...panacea, as the Pilot said. Catholics have to think through strong arguments for and against celibacy--and for and against the ordination of women as priests. But the current debacle will be compounded if the debate becomes a merely technical discussion of fixes and ignores the overall danger to the church. A Catholic Church that is losing so much ground around the world (to evangelical Protestants in Latin America, Africa and Asia, for example) and has such difficulty in recruiting new priests cannot afford the caviling, obdurate smugness of centuries past. Allowing priests to marry, and ordaining women, would...
During his two decades in international corporate security, Bill Elder designed protection strategies in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, from Iraq to Colombia to Nigeria. Operating in countries where American intelligence was often weak, Elder had to rely on his own contacts. In the mid-1990s, while overseeing construction of an oil pipeline in northern Algeria, Elder learned from local sources of a series of killings committed by the rebel Groupe Islamique Armee. This intelligence scoop--the government didn't announce the killings for several days--allowed Elder to steer employees safely away from the danger...
This bluesy wallop of an album is filled with songs about grotesques, but there's no danger of its turning into a rock-opera Winesburg, Ohio. That's because front man E (Mark Oliver Everett) chooses humor over bathos ("Ma won't shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches...