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School's out, and in Jersey City, New Jersey, a handful of teen-age girls is feeling extra heat - through the boys, CBS News Correspondent Jacqueline Adams reports. "I am lacking sex because I am too young. I'm not going a baby. I don't want a disease. I do not want anybody on me. I just got too much going for me now," said Kimberley Wilson. "A large amount of guys will want to take away my virginity - but I am not letting them," added Tomeika Herron. Kimberley Wilson and Tomeika Herron - both individuals the class of 2000 - are in an abstinence group that meets twice a week during the school year at Snyder Secondary school.The group is the brainchild of Leslie Morris, who runs the school's health clinic. Merely one student left the group this year, but it's summer now - time of year she worries the most. Morris was asked how closely she tracked the ladies in the summer."As closely as I can," she said. "It's far more difficult in the summer because I do not see them every day." Morris said she was a "moral compass" for the girls."If we do something we understand we are not supposed to do, she actually is there. You can see or hear her. You hear her voice merely stop," said Kimberley Wilson. Nevertheless the good news for Leslie Morris is that the birth rate for young black women is down dramatically - the best it's been in 40 years. The reason, federal researchers say, is the kids are finally getting the message - opting to be sexually active can hurt your future."If you do have a goal that you want to reach, and also you start having sex, 99 percent about to catch going to get that goal," said Tomeika Herron. The teen-agers, too, have seen fewer pregnant girls within their neighborhoods - but not necessarily because they are abstaining from having sex."I guess they protect themselves," Tomeika said."There could possibly be more girls who are forcing their boyfriends to use condoms - not to avoid pregnancy - but to prevent AIDS," Morris explained.The answer, says Morris, to keeping girls from becoming sexually active to begin with is to stay in their business for the entire summer - telephoning them every single day - playing the role of surrogate parent - and holding meetings at college."Tomeika has a very high chance of living through high school without pregnancy," Morris said. "She lives in a two -parent home and both dad and mom work.""I think there's a lot more pressure on Kim," Morris added. "She resides in an area that has a very high teen pregnancy rate. I think as long as she has a support system set up, I think she can make it."Morris admits that her abstinence group could be small, but the impact, she thinks, is huge."It i important to show the world that you could have a group of essentially poor inner-city girls in the support group and help them complete high school without getting pregnant. It is possible. But it does take a nontraditional approach," she said.©1998 CBS Worldwide Corp. All rights reserved mulberry continental wallet "Get lost" might be the only two words necessary to introduce this next item. It is more about the latest craze in family days out, as well as a new twist on an old idea. And it's a- maze -ing, as CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips interviews the man behind this worldwide passion. This can be a simple story about confusion, in a place where getting lost is part of the thrill.A cornfield in southern England may appear like your average cornfield, until you find the flag. Adrian Fisher is under that one, tromping through one of the 90 cornfield mazes he's designed this year around the the world. "We are now living in the golden ages of mazes," Fisher says. "With innovations which might be more fantastic by the year than in the past."Mazes had an earlier golden age. For hundreds of years, elaborate ornamental hedge mazes were installed with the wealthy and powerful to enhance their properties and impress their friends.Firsher explains, "In the 16th and 17th centuries, it turned out really if you were a king or possibly a prince and had a really fantastic garden plus a castle, you put a maze in to entertain your guests."But then Fisher, who had a small business designing formal mazes, was approached by a us who thought all those cornfields he'd been flying over may be put to a second use. So did Fisher.Fisher says, "We got together in Pennsylvania, and we came up with world's first-ever corn maze. Plus it was terrific. We had 6,000 people through in 2 days, and we thought, 'We're onto something here.'"Build it and they'll come."And they did," Fisher says. They arrived America, and they're still coming all over the world. Out of hedges, out of corn, beyond mirrors, Fisher has now built a lot more than 400 mazes in 21 countries. The attraction would be the simplicity of finding your way, through your own power, using your own brain.Fisher notes, "A ride and a flume ride will give you a lot of G-forces and thrills, but the only decision you're making is to stand in line for 28 minutes and then be strapped in. Here, you will be making choices all the time. Right choices or wrong choicesFisher says, "If you create a wrong choice, you can be about the paradise trail for the rest of your lives."If you get hopelessly lost, you can wave the flag you're given and get rescued, or you can refer to a sealed map, that is cheating. Beyond the fun, there's another puzzle these mazes solve: The best way to keep farmers in business after a time of falling prices.These mazes have magical properties as well. They can turn a cornfield in to a gold mine.Fisher says, "The farmer's going to make about 25 times as much per acre if he runs becoming a corn maze, weighed against treating it as a regular crop to sow, harvest and clear."And then he gets to sell the corn."Well, OK then, 26 instances when he sells the corn," Fisher says laughing. Nowadays, he is laughing all the way to the financial institution - if he can still find it. Walking through the maze, Fisher and Phillips face another choice: go one way, or another."
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts declined Monday to express why he was placed in a leadership directory from the Federalist Society and the White House said he has no recollection of belonging to the conservative group.The question of Roberts' membership in the society — an influential organization of conservative lawyers and judges formed in the early 1980s to combat what its members said was growing liberalism around the bench — emerged as a vexing issue at the start of another week of meetings for President Bush's nominee on Capitol Hill.Although no Democrats have publicly threatened to filibuster his nomination, they have said they're concerned that not enough is known about Roberts' personal and legal views. Queries about where he stands on the range of issues, including abortion, likely will likely be front-line matters at his confirmation hearings later come early july.Roberts, nominated by Mr. Bush a week ago to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was asked by the reporter about the discrepancy during a morning get-acquainted meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.He smiled but didn't reply."I do not think he wants to take questions," Feinstein interjected during the session with photographers and reporters that was part of the meeting in her office together with the Supreme Court nominee."No, no, no thanks," Roberts added.Several news organizations, like the Associated Press, reported soon after his nomination that Roberts had been a person in the Federalist Society. The AP while others printed corrections after the White House said later that Roberts doesn't recall ever of the group.Feinstein said she didn't ask him about whether he belonged on the Federalist Society. "It's not a dispositive question, in my opinion," she said. "It will be interesting to know what the answer is as he said he can't remember."The Washington Post reported Monday who's had obtained from a liberal group a 1997-98 Federalist Society leadership directory listing Roberts, then the partner in a private law practice, as being a steering committee member inside the group's Washington chapter.Roberts has acknowledged playing Federal Society events and giving speeches for the organization.But on Monday, presidential press secretary Scott McClellan said, "He doesn't recall ever paying dues or just being a member." no previous page next 1/2 Some types of violent behavior are declining among U.S. teen-agers but conditions threaten youth safety remain unacceptably high overall, in accordance with a survey released recently within the Journal of the American Medical Association .The shootings at Columbine High School last April would lead anyone to believe violence in our nation's schools is spiraling uncontrollable. But, that may not necessarily be so, reports Correspondent Dave Hnida of CBS News affiliate KCNC-TV in Denver.Researchers in the Centers for Disease Control studied patterns of non-fatal violence at American high schools from 1991 to 1997. The survey found that the number of high school students carrying ammunition to school and the number of fights on school property has declined. Researchers concluded: Students bringing weapons for example guns or knives to college has dropped by 30 percent.Students linked to fights on school property has dropped by 10 percent.Students injured by fighting who needed health care dropped by 20 percent.It remains seen, the report said, perhaps the more recent acts of school violence will lead to more students carrying weapons to college.Reseachers found that one in ten students still bring ammunition to school and one third are involved in fights."Despite these recent reductions, rates of youth homicide, non-fatal victimization and perpetration of violence stay at historically high levels," the report states."In addition, this research did not find significant decreases in the percentage of students feeling too unsafe to visit school, being threatened or injured having a weapon on school property, or having property stolen or deliberately damaged in school," it added.The report also said there were no decrease in the percentage of students carrying weapons other than guns "and in 1997 this behavior was doubly as prevalent as gun carrying...""Therefore, even though reductions in gun carrying and fighting are encouraging, the prevalence of youth violence and school violence is still unacceptably high," it concluded.Your data came from the federal government's Youth Behavior Risk Surveys which were conducted periodically since 1990 and involve a consultant sample of U.S. teenagers. The sample size was not listed.
"It might be higher priced. Or it could be a lot more inconvenient," says Dr. Michael Karpf of UCLA Hospital. "Whenever possible, we try to do things by using an outpatient basis. This will make it that rather more difficult to do so." An asteroid with a diameter of 100 feet passed close but harmlessly by Earth, astronomers said.The hurtling rock passed about 26,500 miles over the southern Atlantic Ocean at 5:08p.m. EST Thursday.Paul Chodas, in the near-Earth object office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told CBS Radio News the asteroid was moving so fast, "it travels the distance from the Earth for the Moon in about 15 hours."It was the nearest recorded encounter between Earth plus an asteroid, said Steven Chesley, an astronomer also at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who creates a program looking for such objects.Such encounters, however, are actually believed to occur at the rate of one every two years and have simply not been detected, he said."There certainly have been closer encounters that we didn't know about," he added.Astronomers were still observe the asteroid, 2004 FH, which was supposed to be beyond the moon's orbit by early Friday.It's not going to come fairly close to Earth again until 2044, if this will be within 930,000 miles.Chesley said there was clearly a lingering chance, with the order of one in a million, that could hit sometime in the future, but that possibility is expected to be eliminated since its orbit is further refined.The asteroid was close enough to Earth on Thursday to get visible through binoculars from vantage points within the southern hemisphere, Asia and Europe, Chesley said.If it had hit Earth in all probability it would have broken up in the atmosphere. Its shock wave may have been strong enough to break windows in the grass, but nothing like the disastrous climate-changing effects which could result from the impact of an asteroid greater than a half-mile in diameter, he said.Astronomers had to scramble to watch 2004 FH because it was only discovered late Monday throughout a survey by two telescopes in New Mexico.
Strong rains over central The philipines on Sunday caused new flooding and mudslides that left seven dead, including another American soldier. At Suwon air base south of Seoul, a U.S. Army soldier was killed after apparently falling into a flooded ditch while walking with three people shortly after midnight, the U.S. military command said within a news release. Two U.S. Army soldiers died Saturday after being buried under mud at their camp south of Seoul. Twelve others were injured, 10 ones hospitalized, said Col. Carl Kropf, a military spokesman. He declined to give names pending notification of relatives. The soldiers were together with the 304th Signal Battalion of the 8th Army's 1st Signal Brigade, Kropf said. Sunday's deaths brought to 165 the number of people killed by the storm front that swept in from China 1 week ago and wreaked havoc in South Korea. Some 69 people are missing and presumed dead. Man struggles with bicycle in China floods.Officials in China's Hubei province destroyed some secondary dikes down the Yangtze River on Sunday to avert killer floods threatening seven million people in the provincial capital Wuhan, state media reported. Officials earlier estimated that 212 people had died, but that figure included those people who are still listed as missing. A lot of the thousands forced to flee their houses Saturday had evacuated them facing floods Thursday. Only hours after their return on Friday, they again was required to seek higher ground due to torrential overnight rains. At the very least two Han River tributaries overflowed, submerging 30,000 homes close to Seoul, disaster officials said. About 1,000 U.S. soldiers were evacuated from several small camps near the border with communist North Korea, said Sgt. Major Billy Foster of the 2nd Infantry Division. The deluge wrecked entire villages. Streams were clotted with overturned cars. Alleys were piled with sodden furniture pulled from homes knee deep in water.By SANG-HUN CHOE Notting Hill asks the eternal question: What are the results when an ordinary English guy bumps right into a fabulously famous American film star?The answer is love, of course, but it's not simply the movie's cast and premise creating a buzz. It's also the London setting, Notting Hill, that gives the movie its title, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth.Tourists understand it as the neighborhood of Portobello Road where, for 160 years, a bustling market turned a return on everything from porcelain to produce."It's brilliant here," says resident Cheryl Devlin. "I have no idea of why they're making it a major thing now. It's always been a fast paced place."Now, there is star power inside the mix. The fame Hollywood has added: Julia Roberts as the rich but lonely celebrity, and Hugh Grant because the charming nobody, a mostly inept bookseller and, primarily, poor. So poor within the movie, he has to live inevitable from his shop, behind nowhere door.Actually, it is the movie's writer, Richard Curtis, who lives behind the blue door, in a house that is now up for sale, with an asking price over $2 million. Notting Hill, says Curtis, is a melting pot."Notting Hill can be an extraordinary mixture of cultures
U.S. and Russian negotiators will work as hard as they can to make an agreement on nuclear arms cuts before President Bush visits Russia later, a top U.S. official said Tuesday."The relationship relating to the United States and Russia has fundamentally changed. And I think that the summit will reflect that change in relationship regardless of what documents we must sign," U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton told Associated Press Television News before conducting talks on arms control with Russian officials in Moscow on Tuesday."Nonetheless, we are working as hard as we can to show as much of that progress inside the agreement form as we can," he explained.Bolton and a delegation of U.S. negotiators met Monday and Tuesday with Russian counterparts led by Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov. Bolton has led several rounds of consultations with Russia on arms control recently.Mr. Bush has promised to reduce the U.S. arsenal one,700 to 2,200 strategic nuclear warheads, while Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia could go even lower, to a single,500 warheads from the current 6,000 that many country is currently allowed underneath the 1991 START I treaty.Mr. Bush initially favored an informal deal, but later acceded to Putin's push to formalize the cuts in a legally binding agreement.Both sides are eager to get a deal ready prior to President Bush's arrival in Russia, and U.S. and Russian officials say the agreements are nearly ready. But talks have already been difficult because of Moscow's objection to the Pentagon's decision to stockpile decommissioned nuclear weapons rather than destroy them.Secretary of State Colin Powell and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov discussed the upcoming summit and this week's talks in Moscow in a telephone conversation Monday night, the Foreign Ministry reported. By Angela Charlton "It lets you start to enjoy the idea of clicking on things in say...an unfolding TV story....and moving with actions."
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police equipped with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence regardless of whether they don't knock, a huge government victory that's decided by President Bush's new justices.The 5-4 ruling signals the court's conservative shift following departure of moderate Sandra Day O'Connor.The situation tested previous court rulings that police with warrants generally must knock and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches."The Supreme court has been gradually upgrading police search powers," CBS News correspondent Barry Bagnato says. "This is the one other step in that direction." Justice Antonin Scalia, writing in the most common, said Detroit police acknowledge violating that rule whenever they called out their presence in a man's door then went inside three seconds to five seconds later."Whether that preliminary misstep had occurred or otherwise, the police would have executed the warrant that they had obtained, and would have discovered the gun and drugs inside the house," Scalia wrote.But suppressing evidence is too high a penalty, Scalia said, for errors by police in failing to properly announce themselves.The result might have been different if O'Connor were still on the bench. She seemed ready, if the case was first argued in January, to rule and only Booker Hudson, whose house was searched in 1998.O'Connor had worried aloud that officers across the country might start bursting into homes to complete search warrants. She asked: "Is there no policy of protecting the homeowner a bit and the sanctity of the home from this immediate entry?"She retired ahead of the case was decided, plus a new argument was held to ensure Justice Samuel Alito could participate in deliberations. Alito and Bush's other Supreme court pick, Chief Justice John Roberts, both supported Scalia's opinion.Hudson's lawyers argued that evidence against him was linked to the improper search and could 't be used against him.Scalia declared that a victory for Hudson could have given "a get-out-of-jail-free card" to him among others.In a dissent, four justices complained that the decision erases more than 90 years of Supreme Court precedent."It weakens, perhaps destroys, high of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for himself and also the three other liberal members.Breyer declared that police will feel free to enter homes without knocking and waiting a few days if they know that there is no punishment for this.Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, a moderate, joined the conservatives generally in most of the ruling. He wrote his very own opinion, however, to say "it bears repeating that it is a serious matter if police force officers violate the sanctity of the home by ignoring the requisites of lawful entry."The case is Hudson v. Michigan, 04-1360. mulberry belt At her Bay area pain clinic, Dr. Wendye Robbins is employing the chili derivative to deal with patients like Carol Baker, with a rare and debilitating kind of foot pain, which she describes like a red hot, burning pain associated with severe swelling.
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