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...quell such worries, some educators and policymakers are embracing more comprehensive sex education. Waco public schools, which comprise the largest school district in McLennan County, declined the federal and state grant money for abstinence-only education and opted instead for a curriculum that includes information about contraceptives. Some schools in Minnesota have a dual-track sex-ed system, in which parents choose between an abstinence-only class and one that includes instruction in other ways of preventing pregnancy and STDs. And in Missouri and California, new laws require sex education to be "medically accurate" in portraying the effectiveness of contraceptives...
...THAT HEADACHE! Remember when botulism was a bad thing? Still is, if you happen to consume the toxin from a contaminated batch of canned food. But now, years after doctors discovered the toxin's uncanny ability to smooth out wrinkles and quell tremors, a new benefit has been uncovered: botulism toxin seems to alleviate migraine headaches. In a preliminary study, half the patients whose foreheads were injected with tiny amounts of the botulism drug Botox reported that their migraine headaches disappeared--and stayed away for up to four months...
...been extremely difficult because right now I have to concentrate on behavior problems," she says. "As an inexperienced teacher it's hard to quell...
...image of black lungs can?t quell your urge to smoke, perhaps the chance to nab a speedier ticket to heaven will do the trick. On Friday, the Vatican released an updated manual on indulgences, with several additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been...
...quell worries like this, the A.M.A. has pre-emptively renounced its right to strike. It is even shying away from using the word union, preferring the squishier "national negotiating organization." The group says it will rely on tamer job actions like "slowing a bit on completing paperwork" required by HMOs. Yet representatives of other doctors' unions, such as the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, claim the A.M.A. is making a mistake by voluntarily giving up its most important bargaining tool...