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Most abuses occur in service industries, such as pizza parlors, supermarkets, movie theaters and other businesses that have long relied on teenagers to do menial work. Federal law allows 14-year-olds to 16-year-olds to work no more than three hours on school days, not past 7 p.m., up to 18 hours a week. Investigators raided one restaurant that employed 156 workers under 16 in violation of the hour restrictions. They also found 900 cases of children operating dangerous machinery -- meat slicers and paper balers, trash compactors and corn pickers...
...impossible to know exactly how many Catholic exorcisms occur these days, since, as one priest observes, "It's not a thing people talk about." In the ritual, a priest places his hand on a person's forehead and recites the prescribed words: "I cast you out, unclean spirit, along with every satanic power of the enemy, every specter from hell, and all your fell companions, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." In addition to such ritual bouts, Catholic priests are occasionally called upon to pronounce blessings to ward off weird and possibly sinister occurrences. Just two weeks...
...Book of Marvels soundly succeeds when it explores the impact the show has on Lila Mae, and on her relationship with others--especially her godless co-workers. The funniest moments occur in the convalescent home. In perhaps the most outrageous scene of the book, Lila Mae's co-worker Norma "decides," after some sexual difficulties and a break-up with her boyfriend, that she is a lesbian. She cuts her hair, drops her voice a couple of octaves, and conspicuously marches about the home. Another co-worker explains to the naive Lila Mae that Norma has "gone over...
...dirty little secret about the birth-control "revolution" is this: three decades after the introduction of the Pill, many of the more than 57 million American women of childbearing age are still unable to control their reproduction. The proof: about six million unwanted pregnancies occur in the U.S. each year. Not only are all the available methods of contraception inconvenient, only partially effective or potentially risky, but the array of devices to choose from is also getting smaller, not larger. Some women must visit several doctors and spend hundreds of dollars before finding the contraceptive that is best for them...
...affect the brain. As it functions, the brain emits energy waves in four frequency ranges called wave states: beta, which is the normal, alert state; alpha, a slower pace noted when people are relaxed and creative; theta, the level just before people doze off, when intense learning can occur; and delta, which is deep sleep...