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...installed as the No. 1 team in the country. Athletic Director Gene Corrigan recalls "people seriously wondering if we would ever lose again." But against Michigan the following week the contrasts between high school and college football began to show, and soon Faust was found wanting even in the Pat O'Brien department. Once, in a burst of madness, an alumnus sprang onto the field at half time. The Irish were leading Michigan State by the unsatisfactory score of 11-0. "You're going to have to show more imagination than running off tackle," he collared and admonished Faust...
...first time they had sex, if they had it only occasionally or if they had it standing up. Adolescents are especially foggy on the subject of contraception. A National Opinion Research Center survey of teenage mothers found that few were familiar with the IUD, and most, says Researcher Pat Mosena, "didn't even know what the diaphragm was." Mistaken notions about the health risks of the birth control pill are rampant. All this may help explain why, according to John Hopkins researchers, only about one in three sexually active American girls between ages 15 and 19 uses contraceptives...
Youngsters who get pregnant often have a history of feeling deprived and neglected. Many have been abused or raped. "Their getting pregnant has nothing to do with sex," observes Pat Berg, director of a Chicago program for homeless youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them...
...leading voice for conservatives unhappy with the McCain-lead compromise that ended the judicial filibuster debate and has called on Frist to bring up more controversial nominees to force a vote. Last month, Allen spoke at the graduation at Regents University, a small school run by Christian evangelist Pat Roberson. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who has appeared over the last several months at small events in front of conservative pro-family groups in Iowa and New Hampshire, delivered the graduation address at Christendom College in Northwestern Virginia, a school popular with conservative Catholics. Brownback introduced a constitutional amendment in April...
Indeed, Ms. Jacks says that love has evaded many of her friends. And many are shocked to hear she had found love at Harvard. “Sometimes when people find out I’m engaged they pat my hand like I’ve just told them I have cancer,” she says...