Word: safely
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...another plan to end the war in Bosnia, agreed on by the U.S., Russia and several European allies, is in trouble. It would have created Muslim safe havens protected by U.N. forces and U.S. air power to enforce the peace. But critics at the U.N. argued that the plan failed to authorize military force to roll back territorial gains by the Bosnian Serbs...
Clinton seemed to hold his finger to the wind before deciding what to do. When polls showed that Americans were uneasy about deeper U.S. involvement, he acceded to a French proposal to create U.N.-monitored "safe havens" for Bosnian Muslims, protected by mostly European troops backed by limited American air power. Only the day before, U.S. officials had likened the havens to big concentration camps, and Clinton himself had called them "shooting galleries" for lightly armed peacekeepers. Last week neither NATO nor the U.N. could even agree on how the safe areas would be run and how much protection they...
...there are women for whom netsex clearly has its attractions. "It's not just the ultimate in safe sex," says Patrizia DiLucchio, a health-care consultant who runs the Eros conference on the WELL, a popular West Coast bulletin-board system. "It's also safe romance. It's like falling in love with a demon lover who knows just what you want and says all the right things." Several of DiLucchio's digital infatuations have blossomed into real-life love affairs...
...Hoping to rekindle some heat, one bystander tentatively approaches Annabeth and slips his hand under her sweater. But rejection in cyberspace can be uniquely swift and stinging: Annabeth types back that she is snapping off her suitor's sex organ and tossing it over her shoulder. So much for safe romance...
...standard information about birth control, which prompts some critics to charge that purely abstinence-based programs are inadequate. Michael Carrera, who eight years ago founded a highly successful % teen-pregnancy-prevent ion program in Harlem, deplores the "ungenerous, unforgiving" nature of some abstinence programs. "The way you make a safe, responsible abstinent decision is if you're informed, not if you're dumb." Carrera attributes the success of his program to this more comprehensive approach: in a part of Manhattan with a 50% dropout rate, 96% of Carrera's kids are still in school...