Word: explicitly
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...delegates of America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, kept very busy in Orlando, Fla. They elected the 16 million-member Convention's first baby-boomer president, James Merritt, 47. They announced a couple of headline-grabbing conservative policies: support for the death penalty and an explicit ban on women pastors. But for all its productivity, the meeting was awfully quiet. This was because most of the usually rancorous, relatively liberal opposition sat it out. The rebels, who call themselves the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will also meet in Orlando. They will be lodged at Disney World, enemy territory...
Teens and adolescents are more likely to encounter sexually explicit conversations on the Internet than parents may realize. A new congressional study has found that 1 in 5 kids online has received an invitation to engage in sexual behavior. Incidents ranged from a 13-year-old girl's being asked her bra size in a chat room to kids' being pursued by strangers' wanting to meet for sex off-line. Few children have reported the incidents to their parents. The study advises parents to remind kids that online buddies can be predators...
...current City Council--which includes three new members--has adopted an explicit anti-Harvard stance, blasting the University for its real estate development and for its failure to implement a living wage of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...
...Arts First weekend is highlighted by controversy surrounding a performance by Marc R. Talusan '97, the "Dancing Deviant." Due to the -show's sexually explicit content, the Office for the Arts denies Talusan funding...
...cartoon, titled "Betty in a Wet Fret," was posted on the Web last week. It features the Betty character commenting to Veronica upon seeing a shirtless Archie, and then making a sexually explicit comment...