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Parents, teens can't ignore risks of sex  -  25 Mar 2008
Vallejo Times-Herald,No one wants to believe that their child has a venereal disease. These parents need to get a grip. Nearly three million teen girls across the nation are

InnerView: Al Penna's archery club supports 50-year hobby  -  25 Mar 2008
Enterprise-Record,His first assignment was as a venereal disease investigator for the Hollywood-Wilshire Health Clinic in the 1960s. "It was a public health service," he said

Glamour returns to post-war Australia  -  25 Mar 2008
Eureka Street,Government figures, military leaders and members of the clergy railed against the spread of venereal disease and women's supposed lax sexual morality.

Health department tries new approach to venereal disease fight  -  Mar 2, 2008
TheNewsTribune.com,After years of battling some of the state’s highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is trying something new.

Starting over  -  Mar 22, 2008
Sunday Times.lk,And VD is Verbal Diarrhea, not Venereal Disease). And now when I'm not on the pill (for ADHD, not THE pill) I tend to lose focus a bit more often than

Education and self-esteem are the keys to smart sex choices by youth  -  Mar 22, 2008
Record-Searchlight (subscription),Venereal disease also happens, even to nice kids. So does pregnancy. It’s our job to tell our daughters how to prevent these disasters.

The decline of genius in the freest nation on Earth  -  Mar 24, 2008
World TribuneVery early in life, Baudelaire contracted a venereal disease from which he died. Tyrmand and other such rebels also sent me for reviewing the best-sellers

Real-world quest delivers the drama  -  Mar 23, 2008
Toronto Star,Partisan Yugoslavia, and tours us around 1894 Vienna, "the laboratory of the Apocalypse," with the highest suicide and venereal disease rates in Europe.

Politics is a dirty business  -  Mar 24, 2008
Capitol Hill Blue,Gladstone: "You sir, shall die on the gallows or of venereal disease." Disreali: "That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your principles...or your mistress

Females get STD due to absence of sex education  -  Mar 19, 2008
Pravda,A sexually transmitted disease (STD) or venereal disease (VD) is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans or animals by

GiantMicrobes: Must-have cooties  -  Mar 21, 2008
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com,The venereal disease dolls -- including syphilis and gonorrhea -- are strictly for teens and grown-ups. The toys, which cost between $8 and $13,

Fighting Debt Disease: Deadline Extended for 'Keep It In Your ...  -  Mar 12, 2008
Earthtimes,Web site points would-be contributors to examples of current and past videos, including venereal disease-related educational films from the 1940s-1970s.

Meredith C. Carroll: A phobia that’s nothing to sneeze about  -  Mar 20, 2008
Summit Daily News,However, I’m not worried about catching a venereal disease (and not just because my husband and I can hardly afford for him to spend $4300 for two hours

Sexually transmitted diseases are a result of liberalism  -  Mar 15, 2008
NewsByUs,...[4] A large number of girls/women have a venereal disease, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, PID, and they don’t even know it. According to a national survey of American

Lawyer Wants Victim’s Blood  -  Feb 28, 2008
Wheeling Intelligencer,In his motion, Alberty asked the court to order the tests “to prove that Jack Jones has a highly contagious venereal disease believed to be commonly known

Official: Macao's HIV infections "relatively low"  -  Mar 11, 2008
Xinhua,Besides the above activities, Chui noted that the Commission will launch a venereal disease and HIV/AIDS monitoring plan this year so as to collect more

Jean Barton: Field Day set for March 29  -  Mar 22, 2008
Red Bluff Daily News,It is a venereal disease of cattle that can cause sterility and spontaneous abortion. A rancher lost 40 percent of his calf crop since he didn't test his

Catholic-Bashing  -  Mar 22, 2008
Huffington Post,Just have a gay Jesus or a lesbian Mary have sex with a pope, Judas, or a farm animal, and contract a venereal disease or go to work in an abortion clinic.

When Men Stray, Is It Better if They Pay?  -  Mar 18, 2008
New York Times,In the end of 19th century there was an epidemic of venereal disease because men went to prostitutes so often. Typically in the end of the 19th century,

WWII vets share their memories  -  Mar 16, 2008
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com,The choices included reading books and watching Navy-issued instructional films. "It used to get so bad, we would watch the venereal disease films," Vehlert

Undocumented worker faces child molestation charges  -  Mar 17, 2008
WHAS 11.com (subscription),...“After a year and a half, two years, it came to be that she had some type of venereal disease she had come into contact with,� says Det.

Sexually transmitted diseases rage among US teens  -  Mar 11, 2008
Pravda,...results: it turned out that at least one in four US teenage girls has the venereal disease, or in other words about 3 million teens are contracted.

Jesus Cartoon Controversy Hits University of Virginia  -  Mar 20, 2008
Evening Bulletin,...points out in the fall of 2006 cartoons were published mocking the crucifixion and suggesting Mary had an "immaculately transmitted" venereal disease.

Symphony, chorus join for 'Requiem'  -  Mar 20, 2008
Red and Black,...we had so much fun practicing [and] rehearsing that a DVD of Claudio Abbado conducting Mahler #2 got passed around like a venereal disease."

Phil Bowhay: Good things from the storeroom  -  Mar 20, 2008
Monterey County Herald,Venereal disease, and the scourge of syphilis! All this still strong enough to severely limit physical contact. Good news, though, from Paul de Kruif:

Jane Claymore  -  Mar 19, 2008
Charleston Gazette,...warn, counsel and give direction to both individuals and institutions like the public schools about everything from venereal disease daisy chains,

Events at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
Inside Illinois,...“Spatial Control of Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Public Health: US Military Governance Over Pre-reversion Okinawa, Japan.

An official state beer? Unreal's all over that one! Plus: We ring ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
Riverfront Times,Adopt gonorrhea as the state's official venereal disease. Despite the fact that the city of St. Louis led the nation in diagnosed cases of this STD in 2007,

Against the mules  -  Mar 7, 2008
Financial Times,Several days later, I learnt from a vet that Tsondab had caught an equine venereal disease. “Man, you need a mule for your journey,� the farmer told me.

Pencil This In  -  Mar 18, 2008
Gothamist,THEATER: A sordid family history of adultery and venereal disease comes back to haunt the fragile son of a dead aristocrat in Henrik Ibsen’s sensational

The best of William F. Buckley's legacy died before he did  -  Mar 6, 2008
Daily Star - Lebanon,...national television, he compared Jesse Jackson, then a key Democratic Party powerbroker, to a venereal disease - with Jackson seated at the same table.

Immigrants Are Stealing Our Oscars!  -  Feb 25, 2008
Ridiculopathy Daily (satire),Coincidentally, "dirty bomb" also refers to a very specific venereal disease known only to exist in the pubic region of Irish actor Colin Farrell.

The Great White Queen of the Never-Never  -  Mar 2, 2008
Independent,While she had witnessed the ravages of venereal disease introduced into black communities, she was primarily concerned about another outcome of such unions:

Human Trafficking Thrives Across N.Korea-China Border  -  Mar 2, 2008
Chosun Ilbo,..."They took a quantity of blood to check possible venereal disease. Undressing the women, they checked even inside the sexual organs with gloved hands,¡± Mun

The new pill politics  -  Mar 17, 2008
McGill Daily,Formal sexual health education in Canadian schools began in the early 20th century due to anxieties about venereal disease.

Mohammed Hamid 'is evil personified'  -  Feb 26, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,Hamid was never faithful, the relative allegedly said, returning from one trip to Greece with a venereal disease. He served three prison sentences,

Doctor spends off-days teaching life's lessons  -  Mar 15, 2008
Charleston Post Courier,He's dismayed that today's popular entertainment often downplays or eliminates the consequences of risky sexual behavior, which can include venereal disease

UVa student paper says it regrets cartoons  -  Mar 15, 2008
Charlottesville Daily Progress,In another, Mary tells Joseph that her venereal disease was “immaculately transmitted.� Woolard was forced to resign in September after the paper ran a

Larry Norman wondered "Why should the devil have all the good music?"  -  Mar 9, 2008
New Brunswick Home News Tribune,...a guitar-strumming, long-haired Jesus freak named Larry Norman, who sang hymns about venereal disease to astonished parishioners in California churches.

Bluewolf DVD presents another side of history  -  Mar 7, 2008
Lake County Record-Bee,...most Pomo girls aged 10 years old and up were found to have contracted venereal disease from having been kidnapped, molested, and raped by white men.

Ephedra - Uses and Administration Dose  -  Mar 7, 2008
Los Angeles Chronicle,The alkaloid-free North American species is used to treat venereal disease. Ma huang was traditionally used by Chinese herbalists during the early stages of

Dunkless in Seattle  -  Mar 4, 2008
American SpectatorThey are survived by the Seattle Storm, a WNBA franchise whose popularity ranks somewhere between venereal disease and drought.

Film Exposes N. Korean Women Trafficked into China  -  Mar 4, 2008
Christian Post...“They took a quantity of blood to check possible venereal disease. Undressing the women, they checked even inside the sexual organs with gloved hands,� Mun

Singer, songwriter Larry Norman, father of Christian rock, dies at 60  -  Mar 4, 2008
Columbus Dispatch,...a guitar-strumming, longhaired Jesus freak named Larry Norman, who sang hymns about venereal disease to astonished parishioners in California churches.

The Sexpert: Random Hook-ups...and Regrets  -  Feb 29, 2008
Daily Colonial,But since you say that you used protection, I am not so concerned with your risk of contracting a venereal disease as I am with why you felt the need to go

Leap to it  -  Feb 29, 2008
GoErie.com,...but it wasn't performed until 1921, and it was shut down, thanks to its subject matter, which includes references to venereal disease.

LONG SHOTS  -  Feb 28, 2008
Buffalo News,...(Jackie introduces one of his players to the audience before a game thusly: “He has no venereal disease but YOU can be the lucky girl who gives it to him.

Do STD Dating Sites Liberate or Quarantine?  -  Feb 27, 2008
AOL News Newsbloggers,Another new site, VDdate.com, feels a bit rickety with its use of outdated terminology like "venereal disease," but its presence reinforces the point: many

Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman, 60, dies  -  Feb 26, 2008
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com,In his song, "Why Don't You Look Into Jesus," Norman talks about someone who's still looking for casual sex after getting a venereal disease on Valentine's

Horsing Around  -  Mar 1, 2008
New Hampshire Magazine,...(He is said to have been looking for sassafras to cure venereal disease.) The history is so rich and complex, Robinson says, he just wrote until he “felt



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