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...With the pornucopia of media at teens' disposal in the past decade and a half, on cell phones and computers as well as TVs, early-adolescent sex should be having a growth spurt. But the figures don't necessarily support one. Despite a minor increase in 2006, the rate of pregnancies among teen girls has been on a downward trend since 1991. Another indicator, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, is alarmingly high: nearly 1 in 4 girls ages 14 to 19 and nearly 1 in 2 African-American girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Americans today suffer from an additional problem: obesity. If children are too well nourished, then they're not able to grow optimally. There are certain hormones that control the onset of the adolescent growth spurt and the onset of adolescence. Nutrition is one of the factors, along with genetic and hormonal ones, that are associated with the onset of puberty. Overnutrition prior to adolescence may affect the hormonal system and may produce too much growth hormone prior to puberty, so that sex steroids are produced earlier. And if that comes too early, then the youth will peak out sooner...
...years after antiretroviral drugs began saving lives, the tense fear that Holleran describes gave way to hope, wary optimism and then finally a wild spurt of gay partying in the 1990s. I came out in 1993, when I was 22. For the rest of that decade, I didn't know any gay men who had AIDS, but I knew plenty who took ecstasy every weekend...
...says now that we're there, we have to stay and win. Both men will find the diplomatic and military options for changing Iran's nuclear ambitions and anti-Israel stance as limited and ineffectual as Bush does. And if the President has learned anything from his recent spurt of Arab-Israeli diplomacy, it's that the militant anti-Israel groups, Hamas and Hizballah, are permanent, and intransigent, obstacles to the peace process...
...course Baby Mama isn?t his movie. It?s a chick flick, with the emphasis on the hatching. Comedies almost always run out of gas toward the end; the writer is like a parent on Christmas Eve, desperately wrapping up his presents. But this movie finds one last spurt to send the characters and the audience out happy. The closing-credits song, the Ronettes? ?Be My Baby,? never seemed more welcome or appropriate. For this is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across...