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It's no secret to students that coed dorms are more fun than same-sex dorms. But they can also fuel very unhealthy behavior that might otherwise be moderated. A new study finds university students in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink every week. And no surprise, they're also likely to have more sexual partners, the study found. Also, pornography use was higher among students in coed dorms. Some 90 percent of U.S. college dorms are now coed.

Genevieve O'Meara was my fifth-grade teacher, in the Sandhills of Nebraska. We had just moved to town, from a peaceful, serene, mellow, laid-back town of similar size alongside the Platte River, further south in Nebraska, and so I was new to her; a phenomenon. I never cared for school, and I cared even less for this elementary school, one of those nouveau hip trendy with-it cool new buildings, all on one level, air-conditioned, and with fish aquariums in the classrooms. I much more preferred the school in our former town, an ancient four-story building with stairways and closets and dead-ends...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to cut deep into education funding includes shortening the K-12 school year by a week – the first time in the history of the state, experts say, that the school year has been sharply reduced, rather than lengthened. But that measure, among others, is being offered because the current economic crisis “is probably the most challenging budget situation the state has ever faced,” the administration says. “Most other industrialized countries are in excess of 200 days a year, and today we go 180 days. This proposal would whack that to 175 days,” said state schools Superintendent...

Modern students are known for their heavy drinking and sexual exploits, but a Cambridge University diary which has been uncovered suggests that Victorian students were even more debauched. Charles Astor Bristed, an American who spent five years at Trinity College in the 1840s, described how British undergraduates thought nothing of visiting prostitutes, and revelled in drinking games involving "villainously doctored Cambridge wines". "There is a careless and undisguised way of talking about gross vice (prostitution)... It is talked of as a thing which is on the whole natural, excusable and perhaps to most men necessary," the grandson of multi-millionaire John...

The school supply distribution event also recognized several students who achieved high academic grades. BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2005 — More than 200 students, teachers and family members attended a humanitarian event sponsored by U.S. soldiers assigned to Task Force Baghdad in the Karradah district Aug. 28. "We never saw anything like this under the old regime. Under Saddam, they had many meetings about getting supplies but were told by the government that they would have to get it themselves." Iraqi teacher Nadhera Abbood Mohammed Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division distributed...