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> Teenage boys are now so obsessed with their appearance that a quarter of them would consider plastic surgery to try to achieve the looks and physiques of their celebrity heroes. > A study of 2,000 boys with an average age of 15 indicates that they agonise about their

Scientism and educationalism go together like rolling papers and dope: > Worldwide, women are twice as likely to suffer from insomnia as men, but a new study suggests that the more educated a woman is, the less likely she is to lose sleep. Link [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,

A reader in England sends this along from the Telegraph: > Jemma, Jade and Natasha Williams, who receive benefits totalling more than £31,000 a year, are raising their babies alone after they became pregnant within three months of each other. > The sisters, aged 12, 14 and 16

There are new, easier-to-use, credit cards coming. You just wave them. The old system was much too cumbersome. All that swiping really held up the spending. > The cards – which are "waved" near card readers instead of swiped and signed – move customers through checkout lines faster. And because

Clever piece about what one man learned by reflecting upon his years of riding a school bus. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bright1.html]. Excerpt: > Most of the kids who were bullies as kids grow out of it one way or another. > It's often the

All right! More sex! We were beginning to think our country was running out of it. > The first drug formulated to treat premature ejaculation delays climax and also increases reported satisfaction, researchers said on Monday. > The drug, called dapoxetine, helped men delay their orgasms significantly and doubled the

We're just awaiting a Chinese Elvis: > In one cafe in southern China, pictures of naked women hang on the walls - a rare sight in this country. > But that is what this cafe is all about. It was set up by the City Government Reproductive Health

The New Yorker, a leftwing rag by any measure, has a lengthy feature article about the rise of homosexual promscuity. Disturbing stuff, to say the least. According to the writer (a pro-gay, it would appear), four factors have resulted in a frenzy of homosexual activity that makes the 1970s bathhouse

Pope Benedict XVI has written a message to Spain's bishops, urging Spain to respect religious freedom. The reason? It's speculated that the homo-lesbian forces in Spain could attempt to require the Church to recognize gay marriages. Just another example of the intolerance and coercion that takes

Well, they've broken ground on the new $131 Million Oakland Cathedral. It looks like another modernist monstrosity: