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...parental notification and consent laws, which require girls under the age of 18 to tell their parents or get their permission in order to have an abortion, actually reduce the teen abortion rate? Previous scientific studies - and one analysis this week by the New York Times - have cast doubt on the impact of such laws. But researchers writing in the latest New England Journal of Medicine report that in Texas at least, such laws have reduced the abortion rate significantly...
...Small Steps. He's out of juvie and trying to go straight as a landscaper-slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions and real problems, and the result is a surprisingly wise book that never cloys or condescends...
While the teen audience does not allow for the number of racy scenes present in her previous books, Jaffe’s new readers are no less interested in that elusive climax. According to Jaffe, nearly half of the letters she receives from her younger readers have something to do with sex. This should come as no surprise, considering Jaffe, like her novels, has had plenty to blush about. Especially in her four years at Harvard...
Haters ought to direct their queries elsewhere. These rappers are barely out of their teen years, with a record deal, a hit single, and a mic. Screaming “Oh I Think They Like Me” over and over again is only natural. Furthermore, we only have ourselves to blame for this kind of material lacking artistic merit...
...large as a skyscraper, a concept that seems to have been borrowed from the video for the Rolling Stones’ 1994 “Love is Strong.” This new video ditches the carefree fun, wit, and danceability that made every MTV-2-watching teen with a guitar dream of hitching to the East Village and enlisting in the band. “I don’t write better when I’m stuck in the ground,” and “All our friends, they’re laughing...