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‘DEFINING ISSUE’
GOP:
Obama’s
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OBAMA CALLS FOR FINANCIAL REFORM IN STATE OF THE UNION
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LOOK WHO’S HERE
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WASHINGTON President Obama used an elec- In a homecoming as well as a farewell, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
returned to the House chamber to listen to President Obama’s speech
tion-year State of the Union address Tuesday MCT
before bowing out of public life to focus on her recovery after being shot
night to frame the national debate not as a ref- Republicans countered President
in the head a year ago. When she was seated just minutes before the
erendum on him but as a pivotal decision on president’s speech, she was treated to a standing ovation of over a min- Obama’s speech Tuesday with a
how to save the American dream. ute and cheers of “Bravo!” and “Gabby, Gabby” from her colleagues. MCT similar vision of a more prosper-
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He boasted that the nation’s economy has ous America in which everyone
improved, albeit slowly, from the depths of shares the bounty. But they offered
the Great Recession. “The state of our union is a far different agenda and castigated
getting stronger,” he said. The speech fleshed out a broad vision Among his proposals: a 30 percent mini- Obama for policies they said have
But he said the middle class has been losing Obama laid out in December in a speech in mum tax on millionaires, a minimum tax on made things worse.
ground for decades, and he urged a new agenda Osawatomie, Kan., one modeled after a 1910 companies that ship jobs overseas coupled “As Republicans, our first concern
of taxes and government spending to tilt the speech Theodore Roosevelt gave in the same with tax cuts for those that keep factory jobs at is for those waiting tonight to begin
playing field away from the rich and powerful town laying out themes for what would be- home, and a $200 billion, six-year plan to build or resume the climb up life’s ladder,”
and more toward the rest of the citizenry. come the Progressive Era. roads, bridges and railways with money saved said Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana,
Once, he said, Americans believed “the ba- Obama’s State of the Union address detailed from bringing U.S. troops home from Afghani- giving the official Republican re-
sic American promise that if you worked hard, his agenda for the 2012 re-election campaign stan and Iraq. sponse. “We do not accept that ours
you could do well enough to raise a family, own year on familiar terms: Asking the wealthy to Obama opened his speech declaring victory will ever be a nation of haves and
a home, send your kids to college and put a pay more taxes, vowing greater regulation of in bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, elimi- have-nots. We must always be a na-
little away for retirement. The defining issue Wall Street and using the federal government to nating Osama bin Laden, and beginning to tion of haves and soon-to-haves.”
of our time is how to keep that promise alive.” do more to help the working and middle classes. withdraw troops from Afghanistan. He said Obama hurt the economy
with over-regulation of business,
a refusal to allow domestic energy
Let me put colleges and universities on notice:
production and proposals to raise
If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding taxes on the rich that amount to di-
viding the country.
you get from taxpayers will go down.” Daniels lamented criticism of
—President Obama the wealthy as not paying their “fair
share,” calling it needlessly divisive.
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Tim Tebow has not cashed in his V card. Neither have College and Seminary in Minnesota to be a Protestant
most of the people featured on TLC’s “Virgin Diaries.” pastor.
The reality show, which premiered last month, thrust His story illuminates the long histories of complexities
the topic of virginity back under the pop-culture micro- and attitudes surrounding any individual’s sex life.
scope and has only fueled ongoing conversations initiat- When sex researcher Alfred Kinsey released a 1953
ed by athletes such as the Denver Broncos quarterback— report finding that 50 percent of women had premarital
who is in the spotlight now for just about everything sex, for example, it challenged traditional views on re-
he says or does—and stars like Miley Cyrus and Jordin lationships. Since then, there’s been a shift in what age
I’m
Sparks. All of them in the past few years have publicly people engage in sex and whether they do it outside of
proclaimed their decision to hold off on sex until mar- marriage, Bass said.
just riage. “Diaries” made headlines when cameras captured These days, many people are delaying marriage and not
the first—and awkward—kiss by a couple at their wed- waiting until marriage to have sex. Census data showed
glad that ding and it went viral. the median age to get married in 1953 was about 20 for
Of course, sex always has piqued the public’s interest, women and about 23 for men. In 2011, it was about 26 for
but why is America so fascinated with the idea of virgin- women and 29 for men.
all those
ity right now? When it comes to having sex for the first time, nearly
“It’s a huge milestone in the life of an individual and half of 17-year-olds have had sex by the time they reached
potentially
in the life of a human being,” said Jennifer Bass, director that age and the percentage dramatically jumps after
of communications for the Kinsey Institute for Research that, Bass said.
awkward in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University. Amid trends showing an uptick in sex before mar-
“Virginity is important to people and always has been.” riage and a fascination with it in pop culture, certain
moments From “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in the ’80s to celebrities, such as Disney stars Cyrus and the Jonas
“American Pie” in the ’90s, and “Superbad” in 2007, sex brothers, buck the trend. They’re seen as the “anti-
has been at the center of coming-of-age movies for the dote” to the problem of a hypersexualized pop culture
are going
past three decades, often with teens on a quest to lose that parents complain about, said Jessica Valenti, author
their virginity as a rite of passage into adulthood. It’s also of “The Purity Myth,” which examines how society tends
to be with
been the cornerstone of shows such as MTV’s “Jersey to judge young women based on what they do or don’t do
Shore,” HBO’s “True Blood” and CW’s “Gossip Girl.” sexually, rather than by who they are as a person.
the one Despite all that, there’s a significant number of young Andrea Nelson, 27, of Downers Grove, waited until
adults who don’t hook up at all. A report issued last year she married her husband to have sex.
person by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Na- Initially, she held off on sex because of religious rea-
tional Center for Health Statistics found from 2006-08, sons, but she also saw how it was beneficial to her rela-
29 percent of women and 27 percent of men ages 15-24 tionship. Delaying sex allowed time for the relationship
with me for
had had no sexual contact with another person, up from to develop, said Nelson, program director of Amplify
22 percent in 2002. Youth Development, a nonprofit that teaches healthy
the rest of
Count Kevin McClure, 24, among them. He chooses relationship education with an emphasis on abstinence
not to have any sexual contact when dating. Hand-hold- until marriage to DuPage and Kane County students.
my life and ing is fine, but he stays away from making out or even The couple did kiss in their dating relationship but
going into a room alone with a girl and closing the door there was no touching under clothes and no sex of
we can behind them. any kind. Sharing that sexual experience with her
“I’m saying no to short-term, empty pleasure,” said husband, she said, solidified them as a couple
McClure, who graduated from Chicago-area Wheaton when they married three years ago.
keep our
College a couple of years ago. “I’m just glad that all those potentially awk-
A devout Christian, he said he is “not anti-sex” and ward moments are going to be with the one
stories to
looks forward to being sexually intimate with his future person with me for the rest of my life and we
wife. McClure defies society’s stereotypes associated can keep our stories to ourselves,” Nelson said.
ourselves.” with being a virgin, such as being boring, socially awk- “I’m thankful I get to treasure all those with one
ward and unpopular. In high school in Southern Califor- person, and they don’t become memories I am
nia, he was captain of the football team and homecoming ashamed to think about because it was with that ex-
—Andrea Nelson (above), who king. boyfriend who I don’t want to bring into my new rela-
waited until she was married to “It’s a recognition of my weakness and my lack of tionship.” Tebow
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NU Fix for leaning Ben? est solar radiation storm since 2005 and has secker, a physicist with NOAA’s Space Weath- on Tuesday to avoid disruptions to aircraft
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Y, 1 London lawmakers who toward Earth, though the threat to satellites, of charged plasma particles was expected to storm.
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ED to figure out what to do about The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ing the 93 million-mile trip to Earth in about
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Administration detected a solar flare Sunday 34 hours rather than taking two or more days, erworldly displays of light and color in some
Monday discussed a report con-
night that peaked at 9:59 p.m. Central time. as is usually the case, Biesecker said. parts of the sky Tuesday night, the bombard-
taining some drastic solutions to
NOAA satellites traced the bright flash of X- Sunday’s radiation storm was the strongest ment of energetic particles also had the po-
deal with the problem.
ray light to an area on the sun’s surface known since May 2005, when another happened that tential to wreak havoc on Earth—potentially
Gay marriage gets boost as region 1402—the same area that had pro- was perhaps 10 percent larger, Biesecker said. downing GPS systems, wiping out power
Gay-marriage supporters duced a weaker flare Thursday. A coronal mass Based on the amount of radiation emitted, grids, destroying sensitive satellite equipment
2 in Washington state may ejection—which can hurl billions of tons of both storms measure about a 3 on a scale of 1 in orbit and exposing astronauts to fatal doses
have clinched the votes plasma at 5 million mph—quickly followed. to 5. While the plasma was set to cause oth- of radiation.
needed to pass a bill through the
Legislature. The marriage bill re-
ceived a big boost Monday when
state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen
became the 25th senator to an-
nounce her support. Mourners, fans
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Mitt makes major bank pay respects
Mitt Romney reported ow-
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ing $6.2 million in federal
taxes on $42.5 million in
income over the past two years, STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Foot-
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Republican presidential contend- and mourners who thought of
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Penn State coach Joe Paterno as
that play into the emerging debate
family lined up Tuesday to pay
over fairness in the tax code.
their respects to the late, legend-
Famine feared in Sudan ary Hall of Famer, whose casket
was set out for public viewing.
The U.S. fears a large-scale
4 famine in Sudan’s restive At the head of the line of hun-
border states of Southern dreds of people braving the chilly
Kordofan and Blue Nile and is wintry weather were former play-
boosting pressure in Khartoum to ers at Penn State under Paterno,
accept aid or face a unilateral as- who died Sunday of lung cancer.
sistance operation, a senior official With his unrivaled record of
said Tuesday.
major college football victories,
Paterno was the face of Penn
White House shooting
State for half a century until he
suspect pleads not guilty
was fired last fall for doing too
An Idaho man pleaded not
5 little about a child sexual abuse
guilty Tuesday to attempt-
scandal.
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Obama and to other criminal
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