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True to its ancient beginnings, curling remains a game of rocks, ice, special brooms and strategy. The sport is played between two teams of four that slide 42-pound granite rocks down a 140-by-15 foot sheet of ice toward a target. “It is kind of like chess on ice,” Bronowski says. “You basically want your rock closest to the dot, but you have to think three or four rocks in advance because your rock can be knocked...
...slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, like, 'Whoa,'" says Seth, 13. "[The pictures] are enough to make you have nightmares...
...turnabout is proving contagious. Sulak has sold her slide kits to health-care workers in 44 states. More significant, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which has long been on the other bank of the sex-ed divide, will honor her with a presidential award next spring. Meanwhile, a group of more than 400 doctors collaborated on an abstinence CD-ROM, Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians' Guide to Adolescence and Sex, released last month by the National Physicians Center for Family Resources. "Parents and children want medical facts, not a one-sided moralist approach," says Dianna Lightfoot, the center...
...movement thus far has pressed up against a question that didn't complicate the fight against apartheid: At what point does opposition to Israeli policy slide into the mud fields of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? At U.C. Berkeley on the first night of Passover, someone threw a cinder block through the glass door of the campus Hillel center for Jewish students and spray painted the words F--- JEWS on the wall. Around the same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into...
...next decade, shipping companies and port operators want to deploy everything from bar-code scanners and smart cards to remote cameras and sophisticated tracking software. Truckers would no longer have to fill out long forms about what they're picking up or dropping off; they could instead slide an electronic card through a reader or use a radio-frequency-controlled fast pass and be immediately dispatched to the right location...