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Our Marriage Laws Make No Sense
By Amy DePaul, Bookslut
Author Nancy Polikoff discusses how to change our laws so that all families get the legal protections of marriage. Read more »

Worried About Your Partner's Bedpost Notches? Get Over It
By John DeVore, The Frisky
What's better than someone who knows what they want, who goes for it, who never apologizes and who learns from experience? Read more »

Sex and the Seminary: Training Religious Leaders To Be Sex Educators
By Joy O'Donnell, American Sexuality Magazine
Religious leaders, who are often the primary source of sexual guidance for many people, avoid discussions of sexuality. Read more »

Teens Take Virginity Pledges, and Then Have Sex
By Chelsea Ricker, RH Reality Check
Yet more evidence that abstinence-only programs, many of which include virginity pledges, do not work. Read more »

What Your Sex Life Will Be Like in 2009
By Michael Alvear, Huffington Post
Good news: You'll be having more sex, seeing more sex and paying less for it. Read more »

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Abstinence-Only Clowns?! Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work
By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
Meet Derek Dye: He's got a degree from Barnum Bailey Clown College, and an abstinence educator certification that can be purchased for $50. Read more »

Artificial Virginity Hymen: Faking that Vacuum-Fresh Seal
By Jill Filipovic, Feministe
If he wants to re-live you losing your virginity, or if you have to fake losing it to please him, dump the motherfucker already. Read more »

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			CLEMSON â€" It's easy to say the No. 10 Clemson Tigers on Saturday were colder than the wintry wall of icicles on nearby Issaqueena Falls. But No. 2 Wake Forest caused this frozen frustration, not bad luck or weather. The Deacons won the Atlantic Coast Conference battle of unbeaten teams, 78-68, by holding Clemson to 33.8 percent shooting before a Littlejohn Coliseum sellout crowd of 10,000. And that was with the Tigers making strides after missing 30 of their first 39 shots.
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			Circuit City has pulled the plug on its hopes for a turnaround. The ailing retailer, the nation's second-largest seller of consumer electronics, said Friday it will begin liquidating all of its 567 U.S. stores, sending as many as 34,000 workers to unemployment lines by March.
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CBS NEWS Coverage of Breaking Space News
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Changes and additions:

01/09/09 (11:57 AM): Griffin awaits word from Obama administration
01/13/09 (09:40 PM): Space.com reports Gration to replace Griffin as NASA administrator
01/17/09 (09:55 PM): Delta 4 blasts off on classified mission

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9:55 PM, 1/17/09, Update: Delta 4 blasts off on classified military mission

A heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this evening, lighting up the night sky for dozens of miles around as it arced away to the East over the Atlantic Ocean.

Delayed twice earlier in the week by technical problems and bad weather, the 235-foot-tall three-core United Launch Alliance rocket roared to life at 9:47 p.m. - two hours and 14 minutes behind schedule because of unspecified problems - and majestically lumbered away from launch complex 37. It was the third launch of a Delta 4 "heavy" since 2004 and the first in 14 months.

Because the payload was classified, United Launch Alliance ended open commentary and provided no details on the climb to space following nose cone fairing jettison seven minutes or so after liftoff. The climb-out appeared normal, but without commentary the ultimate success of the mission could not be assessed.

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