-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 61 - October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
"The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the
presidential debates ... because the demands of the two campaign
organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become
clear to us that the candidates' organizations aim to add debates to their
list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers
to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to
the hoodwinking of the American public."
-- League of Women Voters, Oct. 3, 1988
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Contents:
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--Bedtime for Democracy in Boston
--198 methods of nonviolent protest
--Federal Death Penalty's True Colors
--Slavery in Sudan becomes a 'cause' in US
--Customs debuts cybersmuggling center
--Study: Toxic Risks Near Projects
Linked stories:
*Debate attracts hordes of activists: Police arrest 16
*Thousands Protest As Nader Turned Away From Debate
*Nader fans, others protest outside debates
*Varied protesters come for debate
*Violent Toy Turn-In Planned
*S26: `Prague was ours today'
*Anti-IMF protests sweep the world
*Ties taint Carnivore review
*Critics say Carnivore review won't be independent
*Survey Finds Parents Favor More Detailed Sex Education
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Bedtime for Democracy in Boston
In Boston style, nobody's a pushover; the protesters of the "Bush=Gore"
Corporate Shell Game Debate 'kicked ass' like no one expected. The
corporate media showed up 'cause they knew they HAD to. Now, I don't
expect them to cover it and even if they did, their coverage would be
like Old-style communist PRAVDA gibberish. We've all gotten used to
their blather.
But let me just briefly mention what went down on O3, Bedtime for
Democracy. The day started at noon with a tour of downtown Boston, the
most nefarious Corporations were associated with the ruling parties.
About 500-1000 people attended. It was pleasant, helped the financial
district to understand what it's like for others to have a conscience.
But the party really kicked into over-drive during the march from Dudley
Square to the edge of U Mass where the "debates" where staged. That
started around 5 pm.
We went through the African American/ Puerto-Rican Roxbury district. The
lead truck was great! Good speeches about the lack of decent health
care in the African American community--the racism of it. And powerful
pleas for the release of Mumia and an end to the racist death penalty.
There was lots of support... nobody gave us trouble in the neighborhood
and even the traffic was honking for us. The community loved us and
we reciprocated. It was great. It was followed by a procession which I
never could see the end of from the beginning. My guess is that it was
somewhere between 5000-10,000 people at its peak. It was spirited, tons
of puppets, props, signs: all very cool--the festive air greatly complemented
the rebellious and defiant mood. People were pissed!
But there was the street theater element that managed to pull off a very
cool skit involving about 50 people! The idea of the skit was to show how
voters were throwing away their own personal power as citizen by voting
for corporate candidates. And the props and puppets were artfully made
and another inspiration showing enormous dedication. And it was a funny
skit! Afterwards, people broke into groups and discussed their own
visions of what should be our issues addressed by the debate: from
homelessness, to corporate rule, to environmental destruction, etc.
The Corporate Commission on Presidential Debates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is
so tyrannical that they were willing to spit in the face of the majority of
the people in this country, denying all access to third party
candidates. I heard that Ralph Nader even had a TICKET to the debates
and the CPD scoundrels wouldn't even let Nader in as a SPECTATOR!
What new low will these people stoop to? Haven't they already shit their
pants in public? Have they no self-respect? In Japan, such behavior, if
brought to an honorable conclusion, would lead to suicide. Ah, if only
there were some dignity from that group! But no, none. But no doubt
they will move on to new corrupt jobs by 2004. Rotate those with
blood on their hands: that's typical. And there _was_ blood.
Wild stuff happened as the evening progressed and this article is too
short to recount it. At one point police lines made from metal were
turned into barricades obstructing the departure of the "spectators" of
the "debate".
Blood and heroism. Like I've never seen--and I've went through both the
WTO and DC. No, I've NEVER seen people stand up to horses... and WIN.
Supposedly, otherwise abandoned Gore signs left by bussed-in bullies
were used as shields. But that's not what I saw. Nope. I saw people standing
their ground with horses plowing into them. Nothing between them or the
horses when I was a witness. The horses STOPPED. The cops riding tried
to charge, but the horses didn't cooperate. People shouted, "Horses are
not weapons." Indeed. On several occasions people risked their lives
tonight. It was amazing to see that--it's something I'll never forget.
And yes, some people where hit with batons, trampled. I interviewed
people who had been pepper-sprayed, video-taped others who had their
skulls cracked wide, blood gushing. The medics, in professional form,
wouldn't let me get close to injured people. I know that's what they
should do, but as someone trying to get out those images of injury (for
an injury to one is an injury to all--feel it), I wanted the world to
know how bad it got for our most heroic citizens.
I was very glad to read at Boston IMC that only about 12 people were
arrested? I was worried it was far worse and left before the last half
hour.
We have a society lurching toward environmental self-destruction led by
the myopic vision of quarterly profits. It's going to be hell during
the next 20-30 years as the water and oil begin to become exhausted as
the world population expands.
This fight to reclaim democracy could not be more important: it's about
saving the planet. It's about living wages for all, universal health
care, an end to the racist death penalty, an end to logging on our
national forests, a renewal of civil rights, a growth of civil society,
and a shrinking of corporate power. If we can't solve these basic
problems, the mass extinction of species taking place will accelerate
and there is no recovery from the loss of bio-diversity. Environmental
destruction is growing, and Al Gore and George Bush haven't said a word
about that. They are professional con-men; sadly, many of fallen for
the corporate shell-game. Our job in the next month is to awaken people
with the same heroism of the people who wouldn't be moved by horses.
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198 methods of nonviolent protest
<http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful>
A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
India 1930, Denmark 1940, Nashville 1960 and South Africa
1984 are all examples of how the power of nonviolence has
been used to bring about social and political changes.
This companion site to the PBS TV series, examines these
movements and chronicles the tactics and philosophy of
the nonviolence movement.
News coverage of mass nonviolent action has left the
impression that "people power" comes from the size or
energy of crowds that agitate in city streets. The truth
is that it has to do with separating governments from
their means of control.
The site features 198 methods of nonviolent protest
including taunting officials, rude gestures, skywriting,
renouncing honors, teach-ins, walkouts, slowdowns and
more. <http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful>
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Federal Death Penalty's True Colors
by Samuel Gross
Sunday, October 1, 2000
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/01/S>
AMERICA'S DEATH ROWS are grim places, but they are pretty well integrated.
About half of the nearly 3,700 prisoners under sentence of death are white,
and about half are minorities. But not in the federal system: 15 of the 19
federal death row prisoners -- 79 percent -- are minorities, and only four
are white.
A recent study by the Department of Justice shows that this disparity was not
caused by juries or judges but by prosecutors. Since 1988, over 75 percent of
federal death penalty prosecutions have been against minority defendants, a
far higher proportion than the homicides they commit. Attorney General Reno,
commendably, expressed grave concern about this pattern and asked for further
studies. But we can already see the outlines of the issue.
Racial disparities occur when law enforcement officials have discretion to
choose their cases. For example, most police departments investigate every
armed robbery they hear about, and most prosecutors charge every armed robber
they think they can convict. As a result, there is comparatively little
evidence of racial discrimination in bringing armed robbery cases. At the
other end of the scale, the police have almost unlimited freedom to choose
which few traffic-law violators to stop. The result -- as we know from recent
studies of racial profiling -- is widespread racial discrimination in traffic
stops.
Murder is at the low-discretion end of the spectrum. Police officers and
prosecutors try to arrest and prosecute every killer. The death penalty,
however, is another matter entirely. Prosecutors only ask for the death
penalty in a small fraction of the murder cases for which it is available;
nine times out of 10 they go for life imprisonment or less. What's more, they
have wide-open authority to decide how to make this choice. Not surprisingly,
racial disparities, big ones, are the rule in the use of the death penalty in
America.
Since the 1970s, most states that use the death penalty have discriminated
primarily on the basis of the race of the victim rather than the race of the
defendant. In general, those who kill white victims, regardless of their own
race, are several times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who
kill black victims. The problem in the federal death system is more obvious,
more basic, and even worse -- the overwhelming use of the death penalty
against minority defendants. It is reminiscent of racial discrimination
against black defendants in death sentencing for rape in the Jim Crow days in
the South.
How could this happen? Here's one plausible explanation:
Capital cases are rare, but federal capital cases are the rarest of the rare.
Federal prosecutions originate in 94 local United States Attorneys offices
around the country. These offices pick and choose a handful of cases from the
thousands they could prosecute, and leave the rest to state authorities.
According to the Department of Justice report, there were 61 federal capital
trials since 1988 -- about one every 20 years for the average federal
district -- and 19 defendants, fewer than two a year for the whole country,
ended up on death row. There are at least half a dozen counties that handle
more capital cases each year than the federal government.
It doesn't take bigotry to discriminate when prosecution is that rare and
that decentralized. If you're a prosecutor who files one capital case every
three years -- or one in your career -- you have no pattern of decisions as a
check on unconscious bias. Can you tell if you would have acted differently
if that one defendant had been white? For that matter, can you tell that
you're not being misled by the unconscious biases of the investigating agents
who do your leg work?
The Justice Department requires the attorney general personally to authorize
every Federal capital prosecution. So far, that attempt at central control
has not solved the problem. Local Federal prosecutors have generated stark
racial disparities, and the central office has left them basically unchanged.
Perhaps the more detailed studies that the attorney general has requested
will suggest a solution for the future.
Unfortunately, we already know the problem: Many minority defendants who now
face the death penalty in Federal court would never be there if they were
white. Are we prepared to execute defendants who were selected in this way?
----
Samuel Gross lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a professor of law at the
University of Michigan.
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Slavery in Sudan becomes a 'cause' in US
<http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/10/05/p2s1.htm>
African-American leaders call for a 21st century global abolitionist movement.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2000
by Gail Russell Chaddock
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Joe Madison says he doesn't cry easily. But in Sudan recently to witness
the liberation of 400 women and children who had been held as slaves, Mr.
Madison wept.
"They all jumped up in unison, screaming and hugging and running to their
chief," says Madison, a
Washington talk-radio host who accompanied an international Christian group
that had paid ransom for the
4,435 captives. "I'm an African-American, the descendant of slaves. It was
like I was in a time machine,
watching my own ancestors in slavery. Only this is real and it's happening
now."
Almost overnight, the civil war in Sudan a 17-year conflict that has
claimed more than 2 million lives and
raised humanitarian concerns about slavery is becoming a cause c�l�bre
here in America.
Officials in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, say that the abductions of
women and children are simply part of intertribal conflicts.
But some Christian leaders have charged that the raids are part of a
government-sponsored program of forced Islamization of the Christian and
animist people of southern Sudan an accusation Sudanese officials reject.
Estimates on the numbers of abducted vary. While Sudanese government
figures record 14,000 southern Sudanese women and children kidnapped in
recent years, human rights experts say that raiders armed by Khartoum have
seized from tens of thousands up to 100,000 people and forced them to work
as slaves.
The abductions occur against the backdrop of a civil war that has claimed
more than 2 million lives. But it is slavery that's turning the crisis in
the largest nation in Africa into an issue that matters to Americans.
Prominent African-American leaders, including Madison, have announced their
own "21st-century abolition movement."
Activists say tactics will include protests against nations condoning
slavery and boycotts of the stock of companies doing business with
them much along the lines of the global movement to end apartheid in South
Africa in the 1970s and '80s.
Last week, schoolchildren from Aurora, Colo., and former slaves from Sudan,
Mauritania, and Haiti, testified before the US Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations on the issue.
Colorado teacher Barbara Vogel founded STOP (Slavery that Oppresses People)
to raise money to buy back slaves in Sudan.
The group appealed to senators to help in the effort.
"Today in Sudan and around the world, there are children who cannot sleep
at night. They lie on the ground and they wait for strong people to come
and free them. Senators, you are strong people. You have a big voice and
strong arms. You can free the slaves," said Francis Bok, who was abducted
into slavery in southern Sudan at the age of 7.
(Mr. Bok escaped his captors, made it out of the country, and is now
attending school for the first time and working with the Boston-based
American Anti-Slavery Group.)
Leaders of the new movement hope that by publicizing the abductions in
Sudan they can focus world attention on the scope of the larger catastrophe
in the nation.
"When 10 heads of human rights organizations met with US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright last year, we were told that the suffering in Sudan
doesn't seem to be marketable to the American people," says Charles Jacob,
president of the American Anti-Slavery Group.
As a result, some activists began exploring ways to "make noise on the
street and build a constituency," he adds.
On May 23, organizations as diverse as the Salvation Army, the conservative
Family Research Council, chapters of the Urban League, and the American
Jewish Committee launched a campaign to end slavery in Sudan.
In July, the AASG framed its own version of a divestment campaign, to step
up pressure on Khartoum to end the war. The campaign is intended to stop
Western capital support for slave raids in Sudan. Targets include Talisman
Energy, a Canadian oil company, and the China National Petroleum Co. The
two are partners in a joint venture to develop Sudan's oil reserves.
More recently, the coalition has worked to extend its reach into American
black churches and the civil rights community.
Last month, Madison visited the Sudan on a trip sponsored by the
Swiss-based Christian Solidarity International, which has been leading
efforts to buy back slaves in the region. The practice of buying back
slaves, however, is controversial. Some
human rights groups say it only increases incentives to take slaves, and
also detracts attention from efforts to end the war.
Still, the Madison visit and his subsequent report "have become the
catalyst that will bring together the spiritual descendants of Frederick
Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth, and the spiritual
descendants of William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown in a 21st century
abolition movement," says the Rev. Walter Fauntroy of the National Black
Leadership Roundtable, a Washington-based group that includes the heads of
200 national black organizations.
"This is a real breakthrough for our movement, because senior black leaders
are now informed and clearly committed to this issue," says John Eibner,
who leads redemption missions into Sudan for CSI.
Experts say some 27 million people are enslaved worldwide. Some, like those
tens of thousands in Sudan, are caught up in a civil war. Others are
knotting rugs in India, harvesting cocoa pods in Ivory Coast, or toiling as
unpaid domestics in cities such as Washington, London, or Paris. What they
all have in common is that they're held against their will, controlled by
violence, and paid nothing for their work.
"Slavery, real slavery, has increased dramatically across the world in the
last 50 years," says Kevin Bales, author of "Disposable People: New Slavery
in the Global Economy." "It has grown rapidly, in part, because of the
belief ... that slavery was ended in 1865." Rapid population growth and the
dislocations of a global economy also led to an upsurge of slavery in the
past five years.
Today, slaves cost as little as $10 in some parts of the world, he says.
The going rate for redeeming Sudanese slaves is $35.
For further information:
Modern Slavery
<http://www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.html>
And You Thought U.S. Slavery Ended in 1865... Time
<http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,42408-101000404,00.html>
U.S. grapples with 'modern-day slavery' CNN
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/31/slavery.us.reut/index.html>
Slave Trail: Humanity For Sale
<http://secure.canoe.ca/SlaveTrail/home.html>
Mission Project Sudan - "Operation Freedom"
<http://compassionradio.com/missionprojects/sudan/>
Slavery and Slavery Redemption in the Sudan
<http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/sudan1.htm>
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Customs debuts cybersmuggling center
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1000/100400j1.htm>
October 4, 2000
By Joshua Dean
The U.S. Customs Service on Monday opened a brand new facility to fight
crime on the Internet.
The U.S. Customs CyberSmuggling Center is an outgrowth of Customs' child
pornography investigations, said Customs spokeswoman Layne Lathram. During
the investigations, Customs agents began to see evidence of other kinds of
crimes committed on the Internet, such as money laundering, intellectual
property theft and the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction.
"People advertise Anthrax for sale on the Internet," Lathram said. "We even
found nuclear trigger hammers."
Although the center is new, Customs has been investigating computer crimes
for over a decade. The agency began investigating child pornography after
the Child Protection Act of 1984 was passed.
In 1988, a measure was added that outlawed using computers to manufacture,
transmit, distribute or store child pornography. In 1989, Customs opened
its first computer-based crime investigation. Three years later, Customs
launched its first investigation of child pornography on the Internet with
Operation Long Arm, which ultimately targeted a child pornography bulletin
board maintained in Denmark.
"The Internet de facto crosses a border," Lathram said. "The Internet
effectively transmits across the border and Customs investigates�anything
that has a border nexus, inbound and outbound."
The CyberSmuggling Center, located in Fairfax, Va., currently employs 38
people and is expected to soon grow to 50 employees. The center is divided
into three groups. One focuses on child pornography investigations, another
searches for cybersmuggling-type activities and the third focuses on
computer forensics. Many computer criminals booby-trap their computers,
Lathram said, and the computer forensics team's job is to preserve any
original evidence while obtaining data from original hard drives.
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Study: Toxic Risks Near Projects
October 03, 2000
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS (AP) -- Nearly 46 percent of the nation's federally subsidized
apartments are within a mile of factories that produce toxic pollution, The
Dallas Morning News reports in a three-part series.
"It is an American tragedy," said Henry Cisneros, who was secretary of
housing and urban development from 1993 to 1996. "But we sweep it under the
rug and forget about it."
A study by The Morning News and the University of Texas-Dallas found that
some 870,000 of the 1.9 million housing units for the poor, mostly
minorities, sit within about a mile of factories that reported toxic
emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency. The pollution included
legal, permitted emissions and accidental releases.
HUD secretary Andrew Cuomo declined to be interviewed for the Morning News'
three-part series, which started Sunday, but issued a statement calling the
charges "outrageous." Cuomo said the story "advocates an unrealistic and
unbalanced approach to managing environmental concerns."
He said HUD is getting a bad rap, that it is local governments that
determine the locations for the federal developments based on growth plans
and other criteria.
Economics played a role in locating developments in many communities, the
Morning News said. As whites who formerly lived near polluting plants
climbed the financial ladder and moved away, the property that they left
behind was inexpensive enough to attract officials for places to build
public housing.
"Everyone you see here is low-income, poor and black," said Sammy Smith,
who lives in a HUD-subsidized project in Bossier City, La., next door to
land where toxic waste has been dumped for decades. "It's like we're in the
jungle and we're at the bottom of the food chain."
The Morning News reported that people living in subsidized housing complain
pollution causes health problems in their communities, including cancer,
birth defects, respiratory ailments and developmental delays in children.
However, those claims are hard to prove. The EPA warns that exposure data
for particular neighborhoods might not be sufficiently accurate to guide
local policy decisions or predict an individual's risk of getting sick.
"Public housing developments are not isolated enclaves. They share the
same air with surrounding neighborhoods, and public housing residents make
up just a small fraction of the people living and working near sites of
potential air pollution," said Leland Jones, a HUD spokesman. "It has long
been the nation's policy to clean up pollution, not to run from it by
relocating tens of millions of people and abandoning our cities."
But critics say a federal program to rebuild the worst housing projects,
called the HOPE IV Urban Revitalization program, is simply entrenching a
system that already pushes poor people into polluted areas, the newspaper said.
Elinor Bacon, the HUD official in charge of HOPE VI, said she is confident
that the agency has enough safeguards -- such as environmental reviews of
each project, to ensure that families live in safe places.
However, the Morning News said records it obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act show that in some cases the environmental reviews failed to
note the existence of these hazards.
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Debate attracts hordes of activists: Police arrest 16
<http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/prot10042000.htm>
Passionately beating the drum for everything from a ban on abortions
to campaign finance reform, thousands of protesters who gathered
for last night's presidential debate were mostly behaved despite
several skirmishes with police that resulted in 16 arrests.
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Thousands Protest As Nader Turned Away From Debate
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001004/ts/campaign_nader_dc_1.html>
BOSTON (Reuters) - An estimated 9,000 protesters converged outside the site
of the first U.S. presidential debate on Tuesday, demanding the debate
commission open the events to third-party candidates.
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Nader fans, others protest outside debates
<http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500265458-500411842-502520455-0,00.html>
BOSTON (October 4, 2000) - The Falun Gong folks were there, alongside the
people calling for manned missions to Mars. For all its hype, the exchange of
views between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas inside
Tuesday's presidential debate couldn't come close to the wide breadth of
views outside.
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Varied protesters come for debate
<http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/100300/gen_1003006979.shtml>
BOSTON -- Thousands of protesters gathered before the presidential debate
Tuesday, championing issues from campaign finance reform to the right of
third-party candidates to be included in the matchup between Democrat Al Gore
and Republican George W. Bush.
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Violent Toy Turn-In Planned
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264654>
From Oct. 6 to Oct. 15, Zany Brainy, a specialty toy and
multimedia retailer, will sponsor a nationwide Violent Toy Turn-In.
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S26: `Prague was ours today'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2000/423/423p16.htm>
BY SARAH PEART
PRAGUE -- The 15,000-strong demonstrators who took action against the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meeting, held here from
September 26-27, defied the claim of the September edition of Newsweek
that the protesters would be "outnumbered by young Eastern Europeans who
think that globalisation is just fine, thank you". And they provided
another boost to the rising global movement against capitalism.
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Anti-IMF protests sweep the world
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2000/423/423p18b.htm>
BY SEAN HEALY
A report, released to coincide with the S26 protests against the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague, has revealed the global
scale of resistance to the two institutions.
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Ties taint Carnivore review
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20001004/2717405s.htm>
So much for the hope that an independent review would settle privacy
worries about the FBI's new system for snooping on e-mail.
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Critics say Carnivore review won't be independent
<http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/6CD57B3114A1DD1F8625696E001FCD80?OpenDocument>
Privacy advocates are criticizing the Justice Department's review
of the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system, pointing out
that the "independent" reviewers are government insiders. (10/4/00)
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Survey Finds Parents Favor More Detailed Sex Education
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/national/04SEX.html>
A recent survey suggests that the overwhelming majority of parents
want schools to provide more, not less, sex education once children reach
their teenage years. And they want discussions to cover a wide array of
topics: abstinence, avoiding pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases,
abortion, even sexual orientation.
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