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...statistics are startling enough on their own, but they come on the heels of a report last month by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University that found that girls as young as ninth-graders were just as likely as boys to report drinking alcohol. Back in 1991, 22.4% of 10th-grade girls and 31.4% of 10th-grade boys reported binge drinking. By 1999 the girls had narrowed the gender gap to within two percentage points of their male classmates...
...shift in their sexual activities. Reliable statistics on sex are always hard to pin down, especially when the question is, "Did you get drunk and have a one-night stand?" But health educators at high schools are concerned by the stories they are hearing from students like Devon, a ninth-grader from Richmond, Va. Girls drink, she says, so they can "do stupid slutty things and hook up with as many guys as they want...
Ohio State scored four runs in the ninth off of two balks and a wild pitch by junior T.J. Sevier. With one out, junior Ryan Tsujikawa entered the game for the Crimson, and Harvard’s fourth balk of the night led to Ohio State’s ninth...
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was not born to the royal life. The ninth of 10 children, she passed her childhood in her Scottish ancestral home of Glamis Castle, the gloomy fortress where Shakespeare's Macbeth is said to have murdered Duncan. There she developed a lifelong passion for horses and dogs and a gift for dealing with people. Sometimes she would guide tourists around her stately home, and when the castle was turned into a military hospital during World War I, she helped entertain the troops...
This fear has been made acute by the unexpected success of The Nanny Diaries (St. Martin's; $24.95), a novel of bad manners set on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The book is in its sixth printing and in ninth place on the New York Times fiction best-seller list. The film rights have been sold to Miramax for a reported $500,000. And the first-time authors, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, two peppy twentysomething graduates of New York University, have been all over the morning television shows...