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...most common form of contraception which students use is the condom, followed by the pill, Bowman says. The pill--a daily oral contraceptive made of cycles of cycles of hormones which prevents ovulation--is the number one prescribed form of birth control, Bowman says...
...students. A generation or two ago, it demanded validation of America's cultural maturity. Today it demands diversity. The 1991 Heath anthology of American literature, widely used in colleges, begins with Indian chants and Spanish voyager poems, rather than Pilgrim ruminations. Next year's update adds more "Native American oral narratives." The Heath editors treat literature as of mainly anthropological value. The volume abounds in work by Asians, Hispanics and especially blacks and women -- there is more by Charlotte Perkins Gilman than by Hemingway -- and conspicuously stints Wasps and Jews...
...this time Harris, 41, didn't have to wait. To the amazement of seasoned court watchers, the Supreme Court last week issued the equivalent of a judicial telegram, a terse, 9-to-0 decision in Harris' favor. It came only 27 days after oral arguments, a period so brief as to be virtually unprecedented. In a court renowned for innumerable footnotes and ponderous opinions, the Justices took a concise eight pages to clarify the standards for sexual harassment under Title VII, the federal discrimination law. The court's dramatic decision was no accident. "By acting quickly and unanimously, the court...
Thomas kept a conspicuously low profile during the Harris case, not uttering a word at oral arguments or writing any portion of the decision. As for Hill, the decision was welcome news. "The harasser does not have the right to harass to the point at which the woman is at her wit's end," Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, told TIME last week. "To the extent that's business as usual, that has ended...
...poem, my primary model is the poem spoken aloud. That does not mean that I pay less attention to it on the page; paradoxically, it means that I spend a tremendous amount of attention to it on the page. Poetry is the most intense and ultimately is for oral presentation. The page is a key to that. The rhythm of the book, the way you move from one paragraph to another, they are not so microform. They're more macro. When I read prose aloud I feel a little useless. I'm sort of looking for the line breaks...