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Abstinence education in place of Sex education won’t work

Just say no! to naive school boards that try to do away with sex education in favor of abstinence education.

An Ohio school board is expanding sex education following the revelation that 13 percent of one high school’s female students were pregnant last year.

There were 490 female students at Timken High School in 2005, and 65 were pregnant, WEWS-TV in Cleveland reported. [Source]

I wonder how many guys were involved in this?!

Oh, the school board’s response in Ohio?

…the new curriculum moves beyond the "Just Say No" approach…

No kidding!

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Test your speed.

On August 9 I asked How fast are you? C|Net brings a new speed test service to our attention. Speedtest.net uses a snazzy graphical interface and records results. Other than making it look like the icon of the person is taking a whiz on the servers, the interface really brings this one home. I question the accuracy as it is the first service to truly rank my connection at the 6.5Mbit/s that it is supposed to be.

C|Net also offers their own meter similar to http://www.testmy.net/ and http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/.