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DEFINITION smext-ing v. The act of sending text messages during a cigarette break outdoors...
...hard to ignore the letters H-P-V in a headline. Much has been written about HPV, or human papillomavirus, which infects some 20 million people in the U.S. and causes cervical cancer and genital warts. Even more has been written about the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which was approved by the government last summer and is widely recommended for girls and women aged 11 to 26. But many consumers still have questions: for starters, can the vaccine help women who are already infected? Can it help older women over the age of 26? And can it do anything for boys...
...attention. Schools now provide boys and girls the same educational resources. Historically, girls overcame harsh inequities and brutal discrimination. Boys have been deprived of nothing. The age-old excuse, "Boys will be boys," is the root of the problem. Boys have to learn responsibility. Then they will succeed. Jeanette V. Novak, Northville, Michigan...
...SCHOOL CLASSMATE Thurgood Marshall achieved broader fame. But during a six-decade career, Oliver Hill was one of the nation's most influential advocates on behalf of civil rights. Hill, who once had 75 civil rights cases pending, led a Virginia suit that became part of 1954's Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court declared segregated public schools unconstitutional...
...however, and the industry is certainly keen to ensure such opportunities are exploited. MTV is working with local music companies to stage the provisionally entitled Philippine Music Congress in January 2008. The three-day forum will include discussions on making and selling music in a borderless digital marketplace. Channel V's online initiative, the AMP website, has already helped a handful of acts, like Rivermaya in Singapore, make regional headway. It also raises the possibility of a pan-Asian audience for new bands-something that would enable musicians to have remunerative careers closer to home...