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...pornography. “I didn’t really use search engines. I got pictures from other people. They were usually my age and in a similar situation,” he says, referring to his burgeoning fear that his homosexuality wasn’t just a phase. Nonetheless, he retained the hope that he was straight. “Masturbating to gay porn on the Net was confirmation that I liked guys, but it wasn’t confirmation that I didn’t like girls,” he says...
...Many in Washington had marveled at the relative absence of casualties in the war's first phase, as U.S. forces appeared to destroy the Taliban without putting many of its own boots on the ground. But while American air power had quickly driven the Taliban from the cities and put to flight their al-Qaeda allies, the U.S. had - as the Pentagon has quietly, but insistently maintained all along - left much of the job still to be completed. The key is to round up the remaining al-Qaeda members still at large in Afghanistan, a task that will be difficult...
...hand when parents are no longer around to officiate and keep the peace. "Things left over from childhood get amplified," says Michael Zentman, director of the postdoctoral program for marriage and family therapy at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. "Every time a family moves into another phase of life, it creates a lot of stress on family members, and for them to have to work on the nuts and bolts of dividing their possessions while they're sad and grieving is a huge stress...
...calls it, and he caused more stir with his diplomatic tones than his war cries. The apparent course change left nervous allies wondering whether Bush was on an Asian holiday, deferring to his temporary hosts, or whether his appeals to diplomatic understanding represented a nuanced approach to the second phase of his war on terrorism...
...from other AARP members, Fishman says. It's attitude. Born in a time of affluence, highly educated and accustomed to rebellion, boomers take it for granted they will reshape the world to fit their needs. "If they think of retirement at all, they think of it as the next phase in their lives rather than stopping." Though My Generation editor in chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your kids not to take the drugs...