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Few parents are aware of the kinds of choices many teens must now make as a regular part of early courtship, or that oral sex is now an issue for boys and girls barely in their teens. LEO sent a trio of interns, all recent local high school graduates, into the streets of Louisville to talk to teenagers, parents, counselors, doctors and others about sexuality in middle school. Joanna Richards, Andrew Tangel and Nicole Leist spent months researching this story, and LEO editors "eventually had to pry it from their hands because they just kept digging and digging for more information," says an editor's note.

George Bush's forestry plan does a nice job of opening up public lands to abusive logging practices, but it won't extinguish one wildfire or put out one house fire, Joshua Malbin writes in LA Weekly. "Bush would essentially give the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management license to do anything, provided it called what it was doing a 'fuels-treatment project.' Bush has made it clear he plans to use this license to dramatically increase logging, " Malbin writes. At the same time Bush manages to blame "radical environmentalists" and the Clinton administration for this summer's massive wildfires.