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...past four months, there have been four weighty books published on the subject, with titles like Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children and So Sexy So Soon. Most of these treatises have a similar thesis: young girls are sexually loose because they're aping behavior they see on TV or read about in magazines. And as if on cue, the media deliver a new 90210 with an oral-sex scene in the first episode; Gossip Girl comes back with billboards promoting it as MIND-BLOWINGLY INAPPROPRIATE ... and your daughter starts singing that alarmingly suggestive song...
...decision marks a reasonable compromise. “We are very happy with the outcome,” said Jeffrey A. Miron, the economic department’s director of undergraduate studies. Ec10 professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who found out the news during his summer at the beach, expressed similar pleasure. “I’m delighted about how it’s all worked out,” he said. “There were a lot of different points of view expressed during the discussion,” Mankiw added. “I think given...
Thomas F. Kelly, last year’s chair of the Core’s Subcommittee on Literature and Arts, expressed similar sentiments...
...Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, among other sources, showed that for two of the drugs, direct advertising had no impact on prescription patterns for either group. Sales for Zelnorm did experience a short-lived spike at the start of the marketing campaign, but fell back to a similar prescription rate after a few years...
...crime spree prompted a similar lockdown in Hartford, Conn. After a chain of shootings that left one 21-year-old dead, a 15-month-old shot in the left leg and six young people wounded, the city in August imposed a 30-day emergency curfew on everyone under the age of 18. Mayor Eddie Perez said in a statement: "We must do this because we cannot and will not tolerate innocent people, especially children, to be victims...