Word: tells
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More broadly, according to Columbia University researcher Joyce Hunter, 3% to 10% of U.S. teens now tell pollsters they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or "questioning" their orientation; in the San Francisco Bay Area, the figure is 18%, according to one recent study. While reliable historical statistics don't exist, Hunter says few teens came out when she began examining gay youth in the early '70s. "The change has been enormous," she says. Lonely gay kids can find solace in two Webzines, dozens of online chat rooms and some 500 community support groups, usually run by social workers not affiliated with...
...however, the Clinton Administration, seeking to counter Republican charges of lack of leadership on the drug issue, is looking for a way to move against the clubs. Federal sources tell TIME that the Administration may try to shut down some high-volume cannabis clubs under the seldom-invoked civil provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which allows the Justice Department to ask a federal judge to halt a drug-distribution operation. The advantages of this approach are that the case is decided by a judge, not a jury, and the government need not prove the club's proprietors acted...
...degree, says the shows will be "legal with a healthy dose of street mixed in." Why not? In fact, why not make Geraldo an anchor? "I think the anchor role will evolve in the next millennium. It will be less elevated, center-desk, O.K.-kids-tell-me-what-happened and more of an anchorman as a reporter," he says...
...reactions, on the other hand, tended to run as follows: This guy is a real jerk; why didn't he make the decision earlier, and why didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors...
...Tell Someone They're Doing a Good Job Week...