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...saying the reason pregnancies at his school quadrupled this year was that a group of sophomore girls "made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together," the story made headlines from here to Australia - but no one could agree on what it meant. If only Massachusetts hadn't rejected federal funds for "abstinence only" education, lamented Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. If only the school health clinic had been allowed to dispense birth control pills, countered its medical director Dr. Brian Orr, who resigned over the contraception ban. If only President George W. Bush...
...hadn't thought about that incident in years--I don't think I suffered any lasting damage--but then I started looking into the current state of underage drinking. What was considered by some to be a rite of passage back then would now be considered cause for grave concern. That's because the U.S. seems to be in the midst of one of its periodic alcohol panics, this one focused on adolescents. In the late 1800s and again during the first decade of the 20th century, our alcohol panics focused first on what was called "frontier drinking" and then...
...famous "daisy" campaign ad--the brainchild of media consultant Tony Schwartz, who died June 15 at age 84--was shown just once, on Sept. 7, 1964. But its cultural shock waves persist. "There hadn't been an effective ad of that sort in the history of the presidency," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "[It] works because the audience fills in the meaning." And it worked for Johnson, who took 61% of the popular vote in a landslide win over Barry Goldwater...
...Monday night, a place in the quarterfinals was at stake, and much, much more as these historical rivals faced each other on the pitch. Austria hadn't beaten Germany in a major tournament in decades. And now, gifted a controversial late penalty against Poland resulting in a draw that had kept them alive, the Austrians had a chance to make some magic of their own and prove the team's doubters wrong. Before the tournament had even started, dissident Austrian fans had mocked the team's dreadful form by selling T-shirts that said, "Hosted by Losers...
...wide body of water separating mainland China and Taiwan. The direct-flight deal was reached by two semi-official bodies representing Beijing and Taipei in their touchy diplomatic contacts: Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. The two sides hadn't met since 1999, when Taiwan's then-President Lee Teng-hui's offended China by referring to their relations as "state-to-state." China considers Taiwan to be a breakaway territory and bristles at any reference to it as a sovereign government. "The resumption of talks is always encouraging," says Andrew...