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...life's little growth spurts. But the origin of the purity-ball movement was not so much about their five daughters; it was about the fathers Randy saw who, he says, didn't know what their place was in the lives of their daughters. "The idea was to model what the relationship can be as a daughter grows from a child to an adult," Randy says. "You come in closer, become available to answer whatever questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pursuit of Teen Girl Purity | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...face of the hook-up culture of casual sexual experimentation, he explains, with its potential physical and emotional risks, he wants to model an alternative. Even with older teenagers, many of these families don't believe in random dating but rather intentional dating, which typically begins with a young man's asking a father for permission to get to know his daughter. Lane was so stymied by how exactly that conversation would go that he even asked Randy Wilson if he could sit at a nearby table and listen in one day when Wilson met one of Khrystian's potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pursuit of Teen Girl Purity | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...goes well this semester, Flat World hopes to offer its books to all academic institutions starting next January and eventually expand its titles across several disciplines. But it still faces a long road to success. There is, for one, its business model. Founder Frank and his partner, Jeff Shelstad, another Prentice Hall alum, say the company plans to forgo advertising on the site and instead make money by selling supplemental materials like study guides, podcasts and paper copies printed on demand for about $35, or about a third of the cost of a traditional textbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...Leterme said in a statement that the divide between the country's Dutch and French speakers was too deep for a resolution to be reached. "The federal consensus model has reached its limits," he said. But critics on both sides of the linguistic divide pointed to Leterme's own failure to reconcile the parties in his fractious coalition of Conservatives, Socialists and Liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible: Leading Belgium | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

Plenty of pop albums have been ripped apart by music critics - including a few by model-singer turned French First Lady Carla Bruni. But Bruni's newest release, Comme Si Rien N'Etait (translation: As If Nothing Happened), out July 11, has elevated her well beyond ordinary targets of music snobbery like Vanessa Paradis or Kylie Minogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Bastille Day, Bruni Causes a Storm | 7/13/2008 | See Source »

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