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Are "Blue Balls" Real?
I'm sure many of you can relate to being persuaded into having sex because your guy claimed he'd have painful blue balls if you didn't. So is this just a lame way to try to seduce you, or are blue balls an actual issue?
Let's first talk about what they are exactly.
Flashback: Candid Camera
Talk about peer pressure! If everyone stands facing the wrong way in an elevator, will the "other" guy follow the crowd and face the wall, too? Herd mentality can be a very scary thing.
Should Celebrities be Allowed to Smoke on Film?
Yesterday was recognized as World No Tobacco Day 2007, and with tobacco being the second leading cause of death in the world, Hollywood still tends to glamorize it. While smoking on the silver screen has been highly debated over the past few years, what are your views on the subject? Do you think banning smoking from the big screen will take away from the drama of the storyline or do you think smoking should in fact be banned, since it portrays a negative image to young men and women who look up to these celebrities as role models?
Interspecies Peer Pressure
C'mon and just stand up, will you? Everybody's doing it.
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Obama's Changing Americans' Behavior With Science
Remember hearing "record turnout is expected" before last year's election? Time reports it was the work of 29 of the world's most influential behavioral scientists, psychologists, and economists. They knew people are more likely to do something if they think others will do it.
Supreme Court May Review Life Sentence Given to 13-Year-Old
What crime would a 13-year-old have to commit to warrant a life sentence? For Joe Sullivan, a conviction for raping a 72-year-old woman was good enough. Twenty years later, his lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to throw out the sentence as cruel and unusual punishment.
Study Finds Alcohol Related Deaths Huge For Native Americans
A new federal report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention claim that nearly 12 percent of deaths in the American Indian and Alaskan Native population are alcohol related. This statistic when compared to the national average of 3.3 percent for the US as a whole has been a “call to action."
The study examined all alcohol-related deaths between 2001 and 2005 and found the two leading causes of alcohol-related deaths among the Indian populations were traffic accidents and liver disease.
Ever Wondered Why Asians Seem Like Better Students?
A group of eight students at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles hunkered down in a room to talk about a touchy subject: What's behind the Asian math-whiz-valedictorian stereotype — and why do other ethnic backgrounds appear to come up short in the classroom?
Long thought to be traceable to socioeconomic backgrounds that theory no longer makes the grade. At Lincoln High School both the surrounding neighborhood and student body are 15 percent Asian — why then do Asian students make up 50 percent of the Advanced Placement classes, and teachers can’t remember the last time a Latino was valedictorian?
Pretty and Cheap — Proms Get a Budget-Friendly Makeover
Though Cinderella might have been the quintessential rags-to-riches story ending in a lavish ball, the current mean-stepmother economic reality has many prom-goers tightening their cummerbunds, and embracing a cheap and charming alternative.
It hasn't been uncommon for modern teens to spend anywhere between seven hundred and a thousand dollars on just the prom dress — a lavish spectacle egged on by shows like MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen — but as more and more families are finding it harder just to pay rising fuel and food costs, the clock is striking midnight on luxuries like pricey prom-wear. To see how proms are getting an '08 budget makeover, read more
Dear Poll: Can Friends Be Bad Influences?
Since I know that peer pressure was supposed to end with high school graduation, it continues to amaze me how much people’s friends can influence them. In fact, sometimes it seems like we’re all just products of the people we’re around. Yes, I’m sure it’s true that we’re drawn to those with similar interests, but isn’t it also true that friends can change our perspective on things, sometimes for the worse?
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