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City University students will have to take a hike if they want a nicotine fix. (more)

Life can be disappointing when you’re a college student, especially when your hooker doesn’t do her… um, job. (more)

Parents nationwide think Amy Chua is a mean mommy. (more)

With Tiger Woods’ golf game in the rough, he’s parting company with Golf Digest, a Condé Nast title that was reportedly forking over $1 million a year to carry the pro’s monthly column and run exclusive photos of him as a “playing editor.” (more)

More than 10 percent of teens who said they were abstinent also tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, says a study in Pediatrics released Monday — a figure public health advocates say justifies screening all teens for such diseases. (more)

As we begin a new year, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) would first like to try and slay the demons and hobgoblins of the past year. We do this each New Year’s Eve by making a list of the top unfounded health scares of the outgoing year. These bouts of hysteria are prompted by many different things. But what they have in common is that there’s no scientific evidence to back up the alarms being sounded. (more)

Let’s all thank Surgeon General Regina Benjamin for demonstrating beyond all doubt last week that “nannyism” is more dangerous than smoking. (more)

As the holiday decorations go up, so do anxiety levels. In the midst of prepping for the in-laws and the added financial stress of the holidays, the last thing Americans need is another source of unwarranted anxiety. (more)

What should have been some innocent snowball fun in Germany turned into a violent riot when participants started replacing snow with bottles. (more)

Bristol Palin, “Dancing With the Stars” star and oh, yes, Sarah Palin’s daughter, recently teamed up with “The Situation,” the iron-abbed stud from “Jersey Shore,” to do a video on sexual abstinence …sort of. It’s confusing, I know…but so is the message they are sending to teens. (more)

What if I told you that a single one of your genes and your high school popularity could predict your political persuasion? Faster than you can say, “liberalism is a birth-defect,” people are reading what they want into a new study. (more)

ATLANTA — Residents in Adamsville said dead carcasses have been showing up at the intersection of Fairburn Place and Adkins Road for more than a year. (more)

Winners and Losers (more)

In his latest book, A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ’n’ Roll, Mark Judge reinterprets the sexual revolution through the looking-glass of its most dominant institutional contributors and critics. Judge argues that undergirding the sexual revolution was a germ of truth that preexisting cultural patterns were impotent in preventing. That is, the deep sexual communion of the couple—its unique power—reveals the self to itself and to the beloved in unimaginable ways. Eros demands that it be accounted for by those who participate in it. Perhaps America had prevented this accounting for too long, or the preexisting cultural, religious, and legal norms were themselves mechanisms that productively and safely channeled this overwhelming feature of human experiences. Judge correctly notes that the sexual revolution was actually set to begin four decades earlier in the roaring 20s but was forestalled by economic devastation and World War II, not to mention the New Deal policies which strangely reinforced the nuclear family of the industrial age. (more)

Sports Illustrated supermodel Jessica White was arrested Saturday morning after she allegedly hit a woman repeatedly in the face in a vicious catfight over a taxi outside a downtown club. (more)

In this feel-good era of sensitivity — where dodge ball and tag are banned in schools, everybody has a Facebook page plastered with self portraits, and teachers stop using red ink lest it offend the sensibilities of a slow pupil — a day devoted solely to admiring the beauty of one’s own body seems logical. (more)

Meet Eljuan Heath. (more)

When Ada Brown went to her first Dallas Mensa meeting, she half expected it to be full of slightly awkward geniuses with pocket protectors. (more)

WATERFORD — In a bizarre twist of a prostitution arrest, a Troy man told police he was paid $35 and a winning lottery ticket after agreeing to let another man perform a sex act on him, an official said Wednesday. (more)

A minimum security prison in Kern County has banned hugs and kisses because authorities fear visitors are sharing a lot more than affection. (more)