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...more than a third of 15-year-old boys have had sexual intercourse, as have 27% of 15-year-old girls -- up from 19% in 1982. Among sexually active teenage girls, 61% have had multiple partners, up from 38% in 1971. Among boys, incidents like the score-keeping Spur Posse gang in California and the sexual-assault convictions of the Glen Ridge, New Jersey, jock stars suggest that whatever is being taught, responsible sexuality isn't being learned...
...time, the First Lady plays an up-front, active part in the presidency, from domestic affairs to political strategy to speech writing, bringing to the table two decades of experience and no apologies. In all but foreign affairs, she has emerged as First Adviser, being called in on the spur of the moment to a meeting of 15 senior staff members in late April, for example, to assess the problems of the first 100 days and the defeat of the President's stimulus package...
Included in current lines of research are the analysis of varying stages of tumor development, ranging from genes present before the tumor is formed to the development of blood vessels which spur the growth of the tumor to the exact location and movement of the tumor...
...pharmaceutical companies. This chunk of the health budget is growing--medical technology continues to surge ahead at a breakneck pace, bringing with it skyrocketing costs for designing and testing frontline drugs. As the average life expectancy lengthens, the desire to prolong a high quality of living will spur the use of more and more expensive medications...
That casual air of boys-will-be-boys struck many residents as inappropriate, given some of the complaints. One 16-year-old girl told the sheriff's department that a Spur had removed her clothes in a park during a sexual encounter, then refused to give them back until she had sex with other Spurs. She said her clothing was returned only after she screamed. She believes the commotion prevented a gang rape...