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US teens are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those who grew up in the 1990s, a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. They are also more likely to use condoms when they do have sex, wear a seat belt and avoid getting into a car with a driver who's been drinking, the national study of youth risk behavior found.

Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed hos." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus's misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus's show should take responsibility for enabling Imus — and should disavow his longstanding invective. But let's take a breath now and look...

So I have been trying to rent an apartment in my home...and all I have answering the ads are boyfriends and girlfriends. No matter what social status, no matter what income level, I am seeing unmarried twenty, thirty and forty year old couples who want to live together. If I question them, they don't even understand why I am asking. These are Christians and Jews. I was so surprised to find that it would be so difficult to find a young married couple. Tell me Dear Freeper...am I totally out of the ballgame to expect to find a young married...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China. In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin (search) will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, N.Y. (search). But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona. [[snip]]

Swear box The real deal ... Jerry Springer      RELATED STORIES • The Sun Says   By STEWART WHITTINGHAMTHE BBC has been flooded with a record number of protests after deciding to screen a show with more than 8,000 swear words. Jerry Springer The Opera includes 3,168 “F” words and 297 “C” words. The Beeb has had 15,000 complaints about the show, to be screened by BBC2 on Saturday at 10pm. And TV watchdog Ofcom has had a record 4,500 protests — also the most it has ever received. The two-hour programme is a film of the stage...

QUEERLY BELOVEDD.A.: I'll arrest same-sex weddersSays homosexuals purporting to be 'married' committing frauds Posted: March 4, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A district attorney running for Pennsylvania attorney general is vowing to arrest anyone associated with same-sex weddings. "There should be no Rosie O'Donnell weddings in Pennsylvania, and there won't be if I'm the attorney general," Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Even though same-sex marriages are currently illegal in the Keystone State and there haven't been any homosexual couples forthcoming to seek a marriage license, Castor issued a letter to the local reigster of wills...

A homosexual advocacy group rejects the notion that judges are "over-reaching" when they uphold "equal rights" for gays and lesbians. Lambda Legal said it plans to announce an "aggressive national campaign" on Tuesday -- "to reveal the truth behind anti-gay rhetoric about 'activist judges.'" Lambda Legal said its campaign will counter the claims of "right-wingers" who say "'activist judges' are overreaching by ruling in favor of equal rights for gay Americans." Lambda Legal said its campaign will begin on Wednesday -- the same day a U.S. Senate subcommittee begins hearings on a proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union...

Culture vultures prey on the cretins of cool Gerald Warner COOL is the cult of cretinism; so it is unsurprising that it is also auto-destructive. This became evident last week, when it was revealed that schoolchildren in Scotland are refusing to wear reflective clothing, as a road safety measure, because 88% of them think that high-visibility clothing "does not look cool in front of friends". This is the Darwinian theory of natural selection operating at first hand. Until very recently, hedgehogs thought it uncool to scurry across motorways. Now, according to zoologists, their sense of self-preservation has reprogrammed them either...

NEW YORK (AP) - Over the years, Brandy's fans have watched her grow up on camera. Now, they'll be able to watch her baby before it's even born. Starting Tuesday, MTV will broadcast "Diary Presents: Brandy-Special Delivery." The reality miniseries, which is expected to run four or five episodes, will follow the R&B singer as she goes to the doctor, attends her baby shower, and prepares for the birth of her first child. One thing that you won't see, however, is Brandy giving birth. MTV says cameras will not follow Brandy into the delivery room, but fans will get a...