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<p>Most of the time, Jacob Thomas Matthew Walters is your average 12-year-old boy next door.</p> <p>A polite, soft-spoken sixth grader with short brown hair and pudgy cheeks, Jacob said he is crazy about sports - all sports, naming soccer, football, hockey, basketball, and baseball as examples.</p>

Brace yourself. The "Guidelines for Comprehensive Sex Education" include for ages 12 to 15 that "a few boys engage in a very dangerous and sometimes fatal form of masturbation that involves limiting their air supply," and for ages 9 to 12 that "homosexual love relationships can be as satisfying as heterosexual relationships," and for ages 5 to 8 that "touching or rubbing one's own genitals to feel good is called masturbation." These "guidelines" represent the foundation of comprehensive sex education (also known as "abstinence-first" or abstinence-plus-condoms sex education) developed by the Sexuality Information and Educational Council of the United States...

(CBS) More than a thousand people were detained as suspected terrorists after 9/11, and none has been charged with being a terrorist so far. Three such detainees tell correspondent Bob Simon their stories. Hady Omar came to the United States from Egypt three and a half years ago. He lives in Arkansas with his wife Candy, an Arkansas native, and their daughter Jasmine. He’s never been charged with any criminal offense, but he says he was held in custody in a maximum-security prison for 73 days because he is a Muslim.

Washington -- Senior Bush administration officials said Monday they believe Saddam Hussein's latest appearance on Iraqi television to rally his troops and citizens proves he is alive. Dressed in a military uniform and speaking with his customary verve, Hussein on Monday seemed assured and so much his old self that the CIA decided it didn't have to analyze the voice to confirm his identity, one official said.

A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK PeaceNik: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq? WarMonger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of security council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to violate security council resolutions. PN: But I thought many of our allies, including Israel, were in violation of more security council resolutions than Iraq. WM: It's not just about UN resolutions. The main point is that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction, and the first sign of a smoking gun could well be a mushroom cloud over NY. PN: Mushroom cloud?...

Even as much of the East Coast continues to dig out from giant mounds of snow from the Blizzard of 2003, a weekend "pray for rain" rally is planned to ask God to alleviate the ongoing drought plaguing America's breadbasket. "This country, and northwest Kansas, has turned away from God and sinned, and the land is full of blood from aborted babies," Leonard Kinkade told the Hays Daily News. "Too many pastors have turned a blind eye and deaf ear in their churches, and as a result of the sin, God has withheld his blessings of the rain upon the...

<p>What would Jesus drive?</p> <p>It's a controversial question implied in a daring new Chevrolet marketing campaign in which the automaker is hitching cars to faith in Christ during 16 evangelical concerts that will end at the Palace on Nov. 23.</p>

NEW YORK -- Son of Sam says he is feeling the sniper's ``anger and rage toward law enforcement'' and suggested cops look at the Hannibal Lecter movie for clues to the killer's behavior. David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York in summer 1977, wrote Fox News from a New York state prison to say he shares a unique bond with the Beltway Sniper. In a fascinating killer-to-killer analysis, Berkowitz wrote, ``For more than a week now I have been feeling this person's anger and rage toward law enforcement.''