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...boys impulse to kick in. Elizabeth D'Amico of the University of California at San Diego coordinates a voluntary alcohol-intervention program in five San Diego high schools that have seen drinking rise among girls in recent years. The lunchtime discussion sessions are popular with girls--many boys prefer to air their views anonymously over the Web. "One of the main things they talk about is being at a party where their boyfriend hands them a beer, and feeling like, if he is drinking, then they have to drink it," says D'Amico. Lee Saltz, a consultant to the prevention...
...Many women who did not wear the burka before the Taliban took over say they are still nervous about security and, for now at least, prefer to remain anonymous in public. A few rely on begging to get by and so prefer to go incognito. Others simply say they are used to the burka and feel uncomfortable going without it. "I feel safer wearing the burka," says Qasida, 26, an engineering student at Kabul University. "There are places you go where men look at you; it's just easier to be covered." When the Taliban forced Qasida to stop attending...
While the Democrats would likely prefer to have faced Swift, who suffered through several scandals during her terms as Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor, a substantive and competitive election is very much in the public interest. An interesting election will bring Massachusetts residents to the polls and get them involved in both candidates’ campaigns. It will foster more genuine debate over real issues and reinvigorate the Massachusetts political landscape...
...Buck Zuckerman, a Wall Streeter married to the actress Ruth Taylor (she played Lorelei Lee in the 1928 film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), would go downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside...
...Israeli paratrooper killed at a base in the West Bank blamed "the occupation" for her son's death. "I have no doubt his death was unnecessary, but I am sure I will have a harder time coping with it if I continue to think it was unnecessary, so I prefer to make things 'pretty' by saying he died while protecting his country," said Malka Tzemach. "But I do not believe that...