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Most gay activists would rather swallow glass than say Mat Staver was right about something, but they know that last year's big UCLA survey of college freshmen found that 57% favor same-sex marriage (only about 36% of all adults do). Even as adult activists bicker in court, young Americans--including many young conservatives--are becoming thoroughly, even nonchalantly, gay- positive. From young ages, straight kids are growing up with more openly bisexual, gay and sexually uncertain classmates. In the 1960s, gay men recalled first desiring other males at an average age of 14; it was 17 for lesbians...
...vast majority of U.S. drug research is conducted by pharmaceutical companies, but few experts trust them to do head-to-head matchups. It's just too easy for a company to tilt the odds in its own favor by choosing the weakest rival drug or by playing around with dosages or the patient-selection process...
...only Clark who’s having problems: most of the younger actors don’t quite fit, from the portrayal of the mean Noah Claypole to the clever Artful Dodger. Luckily for the audience, the narrative emphasis is taken off Oliver and the other children in favor of more complex characters like Fagin (Ben Kingsley), the leader of the pickpocket gang...
...friends back home tease me about going to an all-girls school,” Fendell says, “but I can turn it around on them too, talking about how the ratio is so much in our favor.” Members of both sexes seem to be taking the transition pretty much in stride. Perhaps the past presence of boys on campus (from the Art Institute of Boston [AIB], a partner school) has made this year’s changes seem less dramatic...
...this childrens story is far from reality. An article in The New York Times last weekentitled Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Paths to Motherhoodpoints out that many women at the nations most elite colleges say they have already decided that they will put aside their careers in favor of raising children. A number of womenall students at Ivy League collegesare quoted discussing their plans to go on to law school or business school, quit to raise kids, and maybe work part-time later. The article discusses the new realism instilled in young women today who were raised...