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- "Brain continues to mature in adolescence"
- NEW YORK, Sep 20 (Reuters Health) -- Two new reports suggest that the brain does not stop developing in early childhood, as previously believed, but continues to mature throughout adolescence.
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- "Getting Inside a Teen Brain"
- "Hormones aren't the only reason adolescents act crazy. Their gray matter differs from children's and adults'." (from wetlog)
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- AIDS in the Priesthood
- A really intense series about how the Catholic priesthood is coping with AIDS.
- Overall, the answer to that question would be: Not at all well. Priests die of AIDS at four times the rate of the general population.
- It does highlight, if nothing else, the peculiar paradoxes of the priesthood. You ban homosexuality, make it a major sin, yet you create a society in which, for the most part, men find the company only of other men (and women only of women, for that matter). Priests are supposed to be celibate, yet they die of a sexually transmitted disease. (I do wonder what the rate of infection for VD would be; if the rate of AIDS infection is four times that the general population, surely the rate of VD should be equivalent.) The Church now tests for AIDS prior to ordination, but priests are supposed to have been celibate and therefore should not have been exposed through sex during their seminary period.
- Of course, the other issue is that the Church tries desperately to ignore sexual activity by its priests generally. I spoke with my mother about this issue not long ago, and she told me about several priests she knew who were married and practicing, not even trying terribly hard to hide it. For that and other reasons, the church has been hemorrhaging priests, at least in this country, throughout the latter half of the century. The tension between the Church and the 20th century may well destroy its priesthood in the 21st.
- It's also clear that the Star is expecting "difficulties", to say the least, over its decision to run this series. I'm not sure that the editorial is meant to defuse any of that; merely to explain why the series is worthwhile on its own merits. But ... shouldn't that be obvious?
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- Apparently liquid diets work...
- ...rather better than you'd actually expect for people who want to maintain some amount of weight loss. Whoda thunk?
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- Inside the Teen Brain
- course materials from Lewis and Clark State College, discussing mental and physical development inside the teenaged brain.
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- PrematureEEE
- Well, aside from the weird title, it's an interesting site. Answers questions from people who aren't quite sure what or who to ask about desperately intimate/personal things. Some of the questions make me cringe--the one about "wiping" (you know, with toilet paper?) made my jaw drop--but it really is a useful place to ask those health/personal questions you don't want to ask someone face to face.
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- Reinfection by HIV
- It seems to be possible to get infected by an entirely different strain of HIV even when under treatment for another.
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- Risky behaviors on the rise
- It seems that the AIDS cocktails have made people feel that it's OK to engage in completely unprotected sex again.
- I can't say I'm even vaguely surprised, but you do hope, from time to time, that people actually have brains.
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- Tattoo you
- And it would definitely be YOU and not me.
- A brief article about who gets tattooed and why.
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- The government changes its tune on AIDS drugs ... or not ...
- The government said that it would stop resisting outside efforts to lower the price of AIDS drugs, due to a report that counted AIDS as a threat to national security--33.4 million infected, most in subsaharan Africa. Two days later, the govt then turned around and demanded that Thailand stop pressing a compulsory manufacture license on Bristol Myers Squibb--for a drug on which the US government itself holds the patent.
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