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...especially fraught. Pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are just two of the things that make sex perilous. There are also emotional conflicts kids bring into their early experiences with intimacy. Psychologists have long warned that children who grow up in a hostile home or one in which warmth is withheld are likelier to start having sex earlier and engage in it more frequently. In a study that will be published in March, Trish Williams, a neuropsychology fellow at Alberta Children's Hospital, studied a group of 1,959 kids ages 11 to 13 and did find a striking correlation between...
...offender, whose name has been withheld as is the custom in British cases involving minors, appeared in court Wednesday after admitting to a catalogue of offences, including taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, failing to surrender to custody and possession of cannabis. Police also presented evidence that the teenager had written abusive comments on the site about the local police...
...quality album, but it’s not one of Ghost’s best. Last year, Ghostface dropped both the phenomenal “Fishscale” and the surprisingly passable follow-up “More Fish,” which consisted of material withheld from its predecessor. Yet his newest album doesn’t quite meet the high standards he set on his last works. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong about “Big Doe”—it’s just not great. Killah’s notorious storytelling...
...itsworst drought in a century, and it had already asked President Bush and the Supreme Court for relief. So on Nov. 13, Republican Governor Sonny Perdue appealed to a higher power, hosting a statehouse vigil to "pray up a storm," begging God to bring the rain he had withheld for 14 months...
...meantime, the council can’t function without its money, and the process soon to be formalized will guarantee that funds can never be withheld again on any issue so the agreement has produced a long term resolution to avoid that crisis ever again...