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...school counselor Julia Taylor of North Carolina had a conversation with her sixth-graders last year that worried her. "A lot of them were watching The O.C.," she says. "I just remember the show's multiple sexual partners, the cocaine use, and then at the end, they drink, they drive, they set fires, but all is well! There are never any consequences." Taylor understands the media better than many. Her sister Mary is a producer who has worked on MTV shows including My Super Sweet 16 and Spring Break. "I'm messing them up, and she's fixing them," says...
...authors of 2007's American Psychological Association (APA) report on the sexuality of teen girls. "They're just wearing clothes and thinking it's cool to look older." School-age girls want to wear thong underwear for the same reason their mothers wanted to wear crocheted bikinis: to drive their parents nuts...
...genie back into the bottle, girls also need some straight talk about what to do with all the desirability society is heaping on them. "It's like we've given them the keys to the car," says psychologist Maxwell, "but we haven't taught them how to drive." The APA task force urged more study into how teen girls are affected by seeing people who look just like them heralded as sexual icons as well as research to "identify effective, culturally competent protective factors." Translation: Find something not lame that sends an alternative message. Stephenie Meyer's highly popular Twilight...
...despite its domesticity, everything about these lightly-traveled roads tugs at the imagination like a vortex. Back in New England, our placenames are imported from Old England or cribbed from indigenous tongues. Here, rural idiosyncrasy spattered the map with enough wild suggestions to drive the amateur adventurer on a thousand elliptical side trips. Near Climax is Distant. A bit south are Muff and Echo. Elsewhere, places like Oil City, Coal Township, and Lumberville hint at vanished economic powerhouses. A few of these names belong to town centers equipped with American Legion halls and post offices. Most just indicate lonely crossroads...
...Size Does Not Fit All As a 72-year-old working female, I am offended by Mike Murphy's caricature of Obama supporters [Sept. 1]. I bought a Prius because I have to drive 65 miles each way to work because jobs are scarce. I drink Syrah to dull the pain of the damage done by eight years of Bush and friends. Joni Woolf, ELLAVILLE...