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...group is currently working on updating the website to add an “interactive map,” which users can employ to find AIDS resources around the world...

Author: By Britt Caputo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Letter Urges Student Action in AIDS Crisis | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

...Ever feel like a tour guide is phoning it in? That may not be a bad thing, judging from a slew of new cell-phone tour services popping up across the U.S. At Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Hear Sigourney Now? | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...purpose of the research--part of the huge National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health--was to learn how sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) travel through teen populations. But what is most remarkable about the study, published recently in the American Journal of Sociology, is the accompanying chart-- the first to map the sexual geography of a U.S. high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Snapshot of Teen Sex | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...map took researchers by surprise. Overall, 573 out of 832 surveyed students reported at least one relationship during the previous 18 months. The majority probably involved an "exchange of fluids," say the authors. There were 63 couples who had no outside partners, but an astonishing 288 students were linked together in an elaborate network of liaisons. Many students had just one or two romances, but they were at risk of contracting STDs from everyone in the chain. This, wrote the authors, is "the worst-case scenario for potential disease diffusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Snapshot of Teen Sex | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...using a condom, or getting treated for an STD--then you could prevent transmission from B to C and down the network," says Kathleen Ethier, of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. It's much harder to intervene in the adult core-transmitter model. So, scary as that map may look to parents, Ethier says, understanding how it works "is very encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Snapshot of Teen Sex | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

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