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Either way, DiBenigno may well be right about the effect of Castro's Election Day praise for Obama - and Castro himself may want it that way. Castro watchers have long believed that he and Cuba's leaders prefer Republican U.S. Presidents who hold the hard line against the communist island, because it gives them a yanqui enemy to help rally domestic political support. McCain, Castro wrote in his statement today, is more "bellicose" than Obama - and that may be just what el comandante prefers. - By Tim Padgett / Miami...
...question that has been debated by parents, psychologists and media critics for years is whether such racy content has an adverse effect on young viewers. Now researchers at the Rand Corp. say they have documented for the first time how such exposure can influence teen pregnancy rates. They found that teens exposed to the most sexual content on TV are twice as likely as teens watching less of this material to become pregnant before they reach...
...holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied on onetime snapshots of adolescents' behavior, Chandra believes the continuity of her study reinforces the strength of the relationship she found between pregnancy and exposure to sexual content on television...
...provide ample opportunities for large-scale structural improvements. In light of this, planners should consider adding and expanding communal spaces within each House. Currently, many lack sufficient locations where students can gather for events, performances, or simple leisure time, and the absence of such spaces has a very real effect on the social choices students make. Likewise, eliminating vertical entryways in favor of horizontal hallways should be a priority in the renewal process. This new setup would be far more conducive to community building, since residents would not have to climb stairs in order to meet their neighbors. Currently, many...
...When Jeffrey Kwong joined the HRC in the fall of 2005, he became the only non-white member of the group’s then overwhelmingly male majority. At the time the club was stagnating—overemphasizing polarizing hot-button issues to little effect...