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Brooke Shields got a head start in modeling and acting, but the one thing she regrets not doing sooner? Having sex. "I think I would have had sex a lot earlier," the actress tells Health magazine in its June issue. "I think I would have been much more in touch with myself." In fact, Shields, 44, feels that losing her virginity sooner could have helped her with body image as a young adult. Story continues below ↓ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- advertisement | your ad here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think I wouldn't have had issues with weight — I carried this protective 20 pounds...

"... Hand in hand, arm in arm, we will protect your land, Palestine... "The land is Arab in history and identity "Palestine is Arab in history and identity... "From Jerusalem and Acre, from Haifa and Jericho and Gaza and Ramallah "From Bethlehem and Jaffa, from Beersheva and Ramla, "From Nablus to the Galilee, from Tiberias to Hebron." These lines, translated by Palestinian Media Watch, are some lyrics of a song played many times daily on Fatah-TV, the television outlet of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s party, beginning about six weeks before the Annapolis conference in late November. The song, in...

Sex and Consequences 1/10/2007 By Janice Shaw Crouse On college campuses, counselors are seeing double the number of depression cases and triple the number of suicidal students. On college campuses, counselors are seeing double the number of depression cases and triple the number of suicidal students. The American Psychological Association reported in 2003 that counselors on the nation's college campuses were seeing significant increases of these and other "severe psychological problems." Why are the nation's brightest young adults flooding the student health centers to overflowing? What has changed since the late 1980s to produce such emotional and psychological devastation among...

Hey Kids! Want Good Sex? Try Abstinence.Warren ThrockmortonAs a mental health counselor, I am really troubled by the numbers of adolescents that I have counseled who cried for days and hurt for years because they engaged in "safer sex" within dead end, unfulfilling relationships. Sadly, they learned that “safer sex” can be hazardous to their emotional health. I think the current political debate concerning abstinence vs. contraceptive based sexual education has failed to include an important variable in the discussion of what to teach in school: sexual well being. In many contemporary sexual education curricula, young boys and girls who...

Know your place The recent memo purloined from Prince Charles made the accurate observation that ‘child-centred’ education, by encouraging false expectations and discouraging effort, seriously hampers the one who receives it. University teachers know this, since they have to deal with the products of an education which puts self-esteem before real achievement. Despite the plethora of As and Bs gained through dumbed-down examinations in dumbed-down subjects, young people tend to enter university without the skills required for real study. The likelihood that an incoming undergraduate can read a book or write an essay diminishes from year to year, and...

No longer the "third rail", now that we can even mention the illegal alien crisis in California, think about this: I live in Orange County, Ca. (Republican territory) We helped get Arnold elected. Most in my neighborhood agree about no Drivers Licenses for illegals. But every day of the week, illegals cut most of my neighbors lawns. They pay around $80 month. Of the 60 homes in my area, only 4, that's right, FOUR of us cut our own lawns. Shameful. Worse, Families own kids don't cut their own lawns. Too busy with activities, and they say the "gardeners" are...

<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — As obesity-related health costs soar, policymakers nationwide are pursuing legislative solutions modeled after the anti-smoking campaigns of the 1990s to attack what many in the medical community say is one of the gravest threats to the nation’s long-term health.</p> <p>IN THE District of Columbia and half a dozen states, lawmakers are debating bills that would require fast food and chain restaurants to post nutrition information such as caloric, fat and sugar content on menus.</p>