Lead Stories
This past April a 12-year-old girl in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was charged with coercing younger girls into prostitution, one of several local cases involving adolescent pimps….And the April issue of New Scientist reported on a study conducted by a retired U.S. army researcher who argues that the excessive hormones in B&B Super Gro and other shampoos marketed to African-Americans are causing girls to reach puberty as young as age eight.
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According to the Washington Post, D. Cameron Findlay, the deputy secretary of labor, complained to a state department official in March that the federal government often ignores the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act, which requires it to help American workers harmed by foreign competition. The statute, he said, “is treated like a teenage girl in the backseat of a car. You promise her anything to get what you want. And then when you get it, you leave her.”
Recurring Themes
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
