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...Half of the participants were randomly enrolled in drug prevention programs. After five years, those participants with 5-HTTLPR who were enrolled in a prevention program were no more likely than their counterparts in the comparison group, without the gene, to have engaged in drinking, smoking marijuana, and sexual activity. Youths with the gene, who were in the comparison group, were twice as likely to have engaged in these risky behaviors as their peers in the prevention group...
...trouble is that the law was passed by Congress and, if Obama decided to go around the legislature, he would face political blowback. The current law allows gays to serve, so long as they keep their sexual orientation secret. The legislation means that a majority of the 535 members of Congress is going to have to vote to undo the ban - and that will have its political fallout. Obama is plainly taking his cue from the 1993 fiasco, which hurt Clinton's relationship with conservative members of Congress, both Democratic and Republican, and with many in uniform...
RESIGNED Ten days after being named Oxford University's first female professor of poetry, Ruth Padel, 63, resigned, saying she'd "naively" told reporters about sexual-misconduct allegations facing Derek Walcott, her rival for the post...
...Chuck-E Cheese") who's given weekend custody of a baby; or if your idea of the decade's funniest movie would contain a scene where our heroes get repeatedly tasered before a class of cheering children. You'll also need an indulgence for racial (Asian) and sexual (gay) stereotyping, and the sight of inappropriate gentlemen with their pants off. All right, granted, that last bit is always funny. The rest is about as easy to endure as a real hangover...
...Swear Jar," which depicts office workers having to pay a quarter every time they curse, with the money being used to buy Bud Light. The commercial turns into a bleepfest as the cubicle mates indulge their inner sailors. But is bleeping curse words the same thing as pixelating graphic sexual toys? "Porn is the next logical step," says Solomon...