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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Beers with friends may help teen girls

HEADLINE: Beers with friends may help teen girls
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/life/Beers+with+friends+help+teen+girls/1972965/story.html
CLIP:
Sneaking an occasional beer with friends could actually be a good thing for teens -- especially girls --according to new research that upends typically negative views on teens and alcohol.

Timothy Owens, a sociology professor at Purdue University in Indiana, found that high school girls who drank once or twice with their friends in the past month were less likely to feel depressed than those who didn't.

"The realistic explanation is that teens drink for a lot of reasons, and one of them is to blow off steam, get together, have fun, joke around with their peers," Owens says.
HEADLINE: Achoo! Girl Can't Stop Sneezing
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/lauren-johnson-girl-stop-sneezing/story?id=9051534
CLIP:
Lauren Johnson is a typical 12-year-old girl whose life is constantly punctuated by interruptions that are anything but normal.

Whether at her Virginia home, with her family or getting ready for bed, Lauren sneezes up to 16 times per minute, a condition that has has stumped her parents and doctors.

"It's frustrating a lot," Lauren told "Good Morning America" today, sneezing four times before getting that sentence out.

Lauren's prolonged sneezing fit began about two weeks ago, when she was recovering from a cold.

HEADLINE: Muggers Return Wallet After Seeing Army ID
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573885,00.html?test=latestnews
CLIP:
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee Army reservist's military identification earned him some street cred Tuesday, when he says four men who mugged him at gunpoint returned his belongings and thanked him for his service after finding the ID.

The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student said he was walking home from work about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when he was pulled into an alley and told to lay face down and with a gun to his neck. Four men took his wallet, $16, keys, his cell phone and even a PowerBar wrapper from his pants pockets, he said.

HEADLINE: Little dress makes big trouble in Brazil
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/10/brazil.short.dress/index.html
CLIP:
A private university in Brazil said Tuesday that because of negative public reaction, it reversed a decision to expel a student who wore a short dress to class, but the school's assistant rector defended the original decision.

Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old studying tourism at the Bandeirante University, known as Uniban, near Sao Paulo, gained notoriety October 22 when dozens of students harassed and heckled her about the rose-colored dress she wore. It had sleeves that reached past her forearms but barely stretched past mid-thigh.

The incident was caught by several amateur videographers using mobile phones, and their recordings went viral on the Internet. The videos show students heckling her as she enters a classroom and show her later wearing a white lab coat to cover the dress as she exits the building with a police escort.

The university expelled Arruda but this week said it would readmit her after a public outcry that included a protest and counter-protest in front of the university.

HEADLINE: Curvy women may be a clever bet
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7090300.stm
CLIP:
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.
Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children.
The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better

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