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...ideal of the suburbs, the old American dream of home ownership and clean, well-lighted streets, may still contain a dose of nobility. But this paradise of parking lots and chemically treated, weed-free grass has never lived up to its promise. No mass transit means that millions of minivans clog our roads and foul our air. Malls and office complexes have lovely little atriums with trees, even as their power plants consume vast reservoirs of fossil fuels to air condition them...
...Their argument is bolstered by several studies showing that even well-informed, well-equipped teenagers engage in high-risk sexual activity. "The strategic mistake we're making is to assume that more knowledge and greater access to condoms are going to change high-risk behavior," says Stan Weed, 48, director of the Institute for Research and Evaluation, a nonprofit laboratory in Salt Lake City. "Teens approach sex in neither a logical nor a rational...
Time was when every cigarette in America was handmade by smokers themselves, who lovingly swathed dollops of tobacco inside their favorite rolling papers. Today the practice has become linked in the public mind with a different kind of weed, marijuana. In an era of abstinence, that connection is proving hazardous for the makers of rolling papers. Last week the K Mart chain said it would no longer sell rolling papers unaccompanied by tobacco...
...effort to weed them out can be brutally effective. In January 1943, on the recommendations of military psychiatrists who redefined homosexuality as a medical disorder rather than a criminal activity, the armed forces decreed that gays could be discharged simply for having homosexual tendencies. Since then, between 80,000 and 100,000 gays and lesbians have been ousted from the military...
...accommodationists, in other words, argue that all new things are initially strange and disconcerting but eventually become familiar, unthreatening and more or less acceptable. It is an ethical point of view that reposes faith in the common sense of society to weed out the potential horrors...