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...marriage. That suggests that however grown up 13-year-olds wish to appear, they don't yet want to act the way they look. Even as kids are exposed to more adult messages, they seem to be acting on them less. For all the headlines about an epidemic of oral sex in middle schools, the evidence does not back up the anecdotes. For instance, a PEOPLE/ NBC News poll of teens, conducted early this year, found that 12% of 13- and 14-year-olds said they'd had oral sex, but three times that many admitted they didn't know...
...myth of Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls...
...Stevenson's biggest legacy was to build a path toward Pacific literature. While printing presses were established as early as 1817 in Tahiti, books were slow to take hold in an oral society. In the early 1970s, when he returned to Apia to teach, Wendt concluded: "Samoa has no need of writers. It is waiting for tourists." But the writer persevered - and became one of the Pacific's best-known novelists. Wendt's 2003 epic The Mango's Kiss dramatizes the encounter between a village girl, Pele, loosely based on Wendt's grandmother, and a Scottish novelist called Leonard Roland...
...Oral Histories...
Smokers face up to six times the risk of losing teeth as a result of gum disease, but a new study offers hope. Fifty smokers being treated for gum problems were tracked for a year. Those who managed to quit smoking saw their oral health improve; those who kept lighting up just got worse. --By David Bjerklie