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CLASSMATES Familiarity breeds respect--or at least safer sex. Teens are more likely to use condoms or other contraceptives when their sexual partners are the same age and at the same school, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. The younger partner in a mismatched couple, the researchers suggest, may have a harder time saying no to unprotected sex. Condom use increases the longer the relationship lasts and the more teens characterize it as romantic, the study found...
...Tampa Police spokesman Joe Durkin says the idea behind the cameras, which were first introduced to Tampa during the week leading up to Super Bowl XXXV, is to make the police?s job a little bit easier and safer. The street cameras are not, Durkin emphasizes, taking and keeping videotape of people walking around. They?re simply snapping head shots and sending the images back to headquarters...
...SAFER SEX Do condoms protect against genital herpes? Yes, better than doctors once thought. A new study shows that condoms reduce the risk of transmission 90% in women whose partner is infected but has no symptoms. Almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 12 have the virus, but 9 out of 10 don't know...
...Soul City' is affecting the way South Africans lead their real lives. A study sponsored by the E.U. says there is evidence that the program has played "a major role" in increasing public knowledge of HIV-AIDS and safer sexual behavior. Researchers say, for instance, that there is a "significant" association of the use of condoms with people who watch 'Soul City'. The survey did not say whether Benni would find a happy new home. For more about that, tune in to next week's episode...
DIED. J.C. FURNAS, 95, prolific writer, biographer and historian of American society; in Stanton, N.J. His most famous article, "...And Sudden Death," examined automobile deaths and driving safety. Reader's Digest reprinted 8 million copies, and it helped prompt safer highway and auto designs...