A very long, but interesting, article on the female side of adolescent aggression. If you have young daughters (neices, granddaughters, etc), there's a lot here you need to know.

] Girls Just Want to Be Mean
]
] Wiseman's class is about gossip and cliques and
] ostracism and just plain meanness among girls. But
] perhaps the simplest way to describe its goals would be
] to say that it tries to make middle-school girls be nice
] to one another. This is a far trickier project than you
] might imagine.... The
] girls whom Wiseman variously calls the Alpha Girls, the
] Really Mean Girls or the Queen Bees are the
] ones who are supposed to own up to having back-stabbed or
] dumped a friend, but they are also the most resistant to
] the exercise and the most self-justifying.

Mean Girls

A Dutch virologist warned hospital workers and health officials in Bangkok that pigs which feed on chicken droppings could catch bird flu. In turn, the infected pigs could pass the bird flu to humans....

Bird flu can infect pigs - (United Press International)

] The RISUG technique in India and Canada
]
] An Indian Physician and researcher developed a refined
] method of male contraception that eliminates the scalpel,
] results in fewer complications and promises easier
] reversal than conventional techniques. By the summer of
] 2002, approximately 700 men will have had this procedure

Promising news on male contraception. Unfortunately, those of us in the US may never see it here because the pharmeceutical companies won't be able to make any money off of a treatment that can last for 10+ years (as compared to the money they make selling women "the pill" every month).

For more detail, also see http://www.malecontraceptives.org/methods/risug.htm

The RISUG technique in India and Canada