"So why can't kids who want to abstain have equal time, funding and education in the classroom as kids who are having sex?"To critics of abstinence-based education, the policy shift addresses growing concerns that sexually active youth aren't getting access to medically accurate information about contraceptives and disease prevention.In an Oct. Instruments will be used to try to discover whether Venus' many volcanoes are active and look at how a planet so similar to Earth could have evolved so differently.. Trevor Hoffman pitched a scoreless ninth for his 37th consecutive save and 40th of the season.*New York 5, Florida 4 -- The Marlins' slender wild-card hopes were jolted when Miguel Cairo drove in Jose Reyes in the bottom of the ninth to give the Mets the victory.Florida also lost slugger Miguel Cabrera, who was forced to leave the game in the first inning after fouling a ball off his left knee.*Philadelphia 10, Atlanta 6 -- Ryan Howard hit a grand slam in the 10th inning at Atlanta and the Phillies boosted their faltering playoff hopes.Jimmy Rollins drove in two runs and extended his hitting streak to 26 games as the Phillies pulled within five games of the Braves in the East. Not coincidentally, the first person he informed about his intention to study art was fellow Juchitan native Francisco Toledo, a family friend and arguably Mexico's greatest living artist."The first part of my work is very Juchitan, very nostalgic for the people," Flores says.

He made five birdies on the front nine to build a 3-up lead and never gave the South African a chance to get back into the match, winning 3 and 2."I'm knackered after playing two rounds," Stenson said, looking ahead to his 36-hole final, with $1.35 million to the winner.Ogilvy can't complain of being worn out, certainly not compared to last year.He played four straight overtime matches a year ago at La Costa, but what a turnaround in the high desert north of Tucson After five matches, Ogilvy has yet to play the 18th hole. Michael Machado, a San Joaquin County Democrat, says: "Governors and the Legislature and the public have turned their backs on the prison system for so long that it essentially now is dysfunctional."Machado, chairman of a prison budget subcommittee, partly blames "one-upmanship" by legislators incessantly trying to jack up penalties. -- reportedly is interested in acquiring the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford.Nasser, fired five years ago at the start of an earlier turnaround effort by the Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker, was responsible for creating Ford's London-based luxury brand unit, Premier Automotive Group, which includes Volvo and Aston Martin along with Jaguar and Land Rover.Several analysts said Friday that they saw little likelihood of Nasser returning to the auto business and that it was more likely that he was using his knowledge of the those brands to spot a potential bargain that could be repaired and resold for a profit in a few years.The reports, carried by Reuters and Bloomberg wire services, were based on comments from unidentified insiders. The outer circles of the rosa are slightly crisp, and the flavor is delicately sweet. If you win, then the rest -- being popular -- will follow."With Germany also moving smoothly through the tournament and a possible clash looming, the German media added their own, somewhat clumsy, contribution to the bubbling stew.Earlier in the tournament, when Italy had perhaps looked vulnerable, one German newspaper published a cartoon of a car flying a celebratory flag out the window -- except that the flag was white.When Italy no longer looked likely to surrender meekly, the jibes became uglier.The German weekly Der Spiegel published a supposedly satirical column on its website titled "Oiled Up and Greasy" in which Italians were referred to as "parasitical forms of life" and "mama's boys."Der Spiegel withdrew the column and apologized, but the damage had been done.Said Nesta: "They criticize us for how we are, but then they want to dress and eat like us. Viloria won that fight on a sixth-round technical knockout to earn the match against Ortiz, but the joy of that triumph evaporated quickly when Contreras was rushed to the hospital because of a blood clot forming around his brain.Viloria, who hasn't seen Contreras since that traumatic night, plans to give a big hug to the former fighter, who has recovered much of his mental awareness and muscle control."He won the biggest fight," Viloria said, "the fight for his life."In a preliminary six-round match, Vanes Martirosyan (3-0, 1) of Glendale, a 2004 U.S.

Russia signed an agreement to ship fuel by March to a controversial atomic power plant it is building in Iran.Russian news agencies reported that Sergei Shmatko, head of the state-run company Atomstroyexport, and Mohammed Jonatyan, vice president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, signed a protocol for starting the Bushehr plant.Western nations fear Tehran could divert nuclear fuel and enrich it further for weapons. They also studied a traffic configuration in which Pico would go west only and Olympic east only.Vehicle capacity could increase by 20% with one-way streets and no left turns, the study found It was conducted by Allyn D. "To get proficient, it usually takes longer than people expect."On this particular Saturday, 10 boys ages 9 to 13 have gathered with their parents at the Sea Base flagpole in Newport Beach for the first of seven three-hour lessons, Sailing 101.Their instructor is Berkeley Green, a staffer who has been on the job long enough to have taught at least one of the Sea Base grown-ups how to sail."I learned to sail when I was 8," he tells the boys. "I'll be hiding out in the dugout," he said.The big-screen TV showed: Radar gun, 101 mph That was bogus, of course, but all in good fun. They improved to 21-1 in in-state tournament games -- 6-0 at the home of conference rival Wake Forest.. You may substitute fresh pecorino (solid, not grated), which is available at the CheeseStore of Silverlake , the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and select Bristol Farms markets.

Each begins with a dip in a series of cleansing pools that dutifully mirror the three totems of ancient Roman bliss -- or so the empire's scribes would have us believe. Ground has been broken for a new museum, but it isn't scheduled to open until 2007.The center houses the famous Electric Map, a half-hour "show" that explains the movements of Confederate and Union troops during the three summer days that marked the turning point of the war. Demand is outstripping supply just now -- half the muzzleloaders are gone, but the $25,500 custom Rigby .416-caliber buffalo gun is still available. UCLA junior Danesha Adams, a second-half substitute up front, recorded an assist in her international debut. "It's kind of like the family you put in a car and tell them to get to Texas from California, and everybody has their own opinions on how they should get there. Get yourself in proper mental shape before going to see "3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Here again, the distinctions we draw are impossibly arbitrary. He said he described the arrest that way because it was made "without a significant use of force," as deputies did not surround Gibson with guns drawn and did not tackle him. Potter designed more than 100 churches, chapels, hospitals, auditoriums and schools. His pieces usually consumed at least two full inside pages after beginning on Page 1.Shaw's beat was created in 1974 by William F Thomas, then editor of The Times. The Phillies offered a little more than $30 million over three years to retain the 34-year-old left-hander and were prepared to enhance the proposal Monday, but not increase the length.New York reached the agreement on the same day it introduced slugger Carlos Delgado, acquired last week in a trade with the Florida Marlins, a National League East rival just like the Phillies.As for Delgado, he said that team rules come before personal politics and that he's willing to stand on the field with the rest of the Mets when "God Bless America" is played next season.Major League Baseball says it has not agreed to pay the District of Columbia's $20-million request to cover cost overruns on a new stadium for the Washington Nationals Mark Tuohey, chairman of the D.C. "They are entering a phase where increasingly profitability starts to show."A year or two out from here, it will be a totally different company," he said, with profits driven by an inkjet printer system that "probably is a lot bigger than anybody thinks it's going to be."Kodak unveiled a trio of home printers Tuesday that produce documents and photos using ink cartridges that cost roughly half as much as the competition's. attorney brandished stepped-up use of federal hate crime laws, death penalty enhancements, civil rights laws and RICO prosecutions.