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...Martin's Press; 2001). In Taffel's view, the adult establishment has become too weak and weary to inspire rebellion. Getting thongs or tattoos or body piercings, he argues, is actually a "statement to other kids that they are part of this very, very intense, powerful second family of peer group and pop culture that is shaping kids' wants, needs and feelings." This phenomenon is gripping kids at ever earlier ages. Peer pressure is at its most intense between fifth and eighth grade, says Taffel, "but it can begin in first and second grade...
...Safe Are Sugar Substitutes?" [Your Time: Health, Sept. 15]: The safety of approved low-calorie sweeteners is not questionable. Before a food additive is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, it must undergo rigorous testing and scientific peer review. For millions of people, low-calorie sweeteners and the products that contain them are a way to reduce calories--which, as studies have shown, can help consumers lose weight and keep it off. In fact, reducing caloric intake by just 44 calories a day over the course of a year can result in a 5-lb. weight loss. BETH HUBRICH...
...Kathryn E. Nielson ’05, who is a peer counselor specializing in issues of sexual assault, said that although more students are reporting offenses, the numbers still reflect only a small portion of the total...
...that Sunday afternoon, as if caught on the billows of the church blast, Virgil Ware and Larry Joe Sims were hurtling toward another racial tragedy. Succumbing to peer pressure, Sims had gone along with friends to a segregationist rally that day--and now he was holding a revolver that his classmate, Michael Lee Farley, 16, had handed him as they rode home on Farley's red motorbike, its small Confederate flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled...
...only has to look at the bibliography section of the National Social Norms Resource Center website or The Social Norms Approach to Preventing School and College Age Substance Abuse by H. Wesley Perkins for many outcome studies and peer-reviewed articles showing social norms as a sound approach for reducing high-risk alcohol...