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...ElBaradei is exactly the kind of person you would want in the role - someone from a developing country who has a Western intellect but a Third World sensitivity." (former U.S. IAEA ambassador John Ritch...
...most encouraging statistic: 57% of all students in public schools now say they know a kid who is gay; 20% have "a close personal friend" who is gay. Those numbers were unimaginable even 20 years ago. As I have pointed out more fully before, research from Cornell's Ritch Savin-Williams has shown that most gay teenagers are thriving and happy most of the time. They are periodically confused and depressed, but what teen...
...environmentalist James Lovelock and his notion of Earth as a living superorganism that he calls Gaia. But the story ignored his endorsement of nuclear power, about which he says, "There is at present no other safe, practical and economic substitute for the dangerous practice of burning carbon fuels." Christina Ritch London time's report painted an alarming picture of what will happen to our Planet Earth within the next few decades as India and China increase greenhouse-gas emissions. But the West, led by the U.S., is pushing us to produce more greenhouse gas. Multinational corporations are prodding China...
...recalled first desiring other males at an average age of 14; it was 17 for lesbians. By the '90s, the average had dropped to 10 for gays and 12 for lesbians, according to more than a dozen studies reviewed by the author of The New Gay Teenager, Ritch Savin-Williams, who chairs Cornell's human-development department...
Such statements have puzzled other researchers. "Ritch has never really acknowledged the fact that the average kid who is gay is facing enormous problems," says Dr. Gary Remafedi, director of the Youth and AIDS Projects at the University of Minnesota. "Most of his subjects have been Cornell students, who are among the highest-functioning students of all." Savin-Williams, who has included many low-income and non-Cornell kids in his work, responds that Remafedi and other clinicians have a warped view because they based early research on gay teens from crisis centers. "Are you only listening to hustlers...