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...Though abstinence proponents like to take credit for the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found...
Like extraordinary fashion accessories, poodles with topiary cuts and tracts of shaved skin on legs and haunches trot alongside their owners. A spaniel in a shiny pink satin snood waits mournfully in a cage. The dog days of summer are in full swing in Britain, a time when canine events are staged almost nonstop throughout the country. At this year's East of England Championship Show, dogs with show names reminiscent of wartime coded messages - Mariglen Force the Pace with Becksett, Sequentia Reflection in Arabin - compete for titles and trophies. In between the primping and tense sessions with nervous owners...
...pulls away and I step back into my exhausted trot, I realize that Caroline is of Lowell now in a way that her mother, father, aunts and uncles never will be. She's history, like her grandmother. She's the little girl who got whacked at the Spinners game...
...seeds in the tournament. Vermont became the first team in the ten-team qualification format to knock off a No. 1 seed this year in the first round by eliminating Clarkson. How much less of a chance would Brown have? How embarrassing will it be for the league to trot out its doormats as “playoff-ready” teams...
...usual, Harvard Coach Joe Walsh will trot out his stable full of workhouses. Senior John Birtwell, freshman Kenon Ronz, and Crockett will likely start three of this weekend’s games. That usually means good news for Harvard—provided the offense can hold...