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• Fewer US teens using tobacco, but e-cigarettes' appeal on the rise
• E-cigarettes on the rise among US teens: report
• Is this the world's worst love guru?
• Getting Into the Rhythm of an Online Course
• Papal Neutrality in the Culture War?
• Trendsetting Teens Now Smoking E-Cigs to Make Themselves Look Cool

Fewer US teens using tobacco, but e-cigarettes' appeal on the rise Posted: 15 Nov 2013 03:21 PM PST Among students who did report tobacco use, cigarettes remained by far the most popular product. Use of tobacco among high school students fell from 24.3 percent in 2011 to 23.3 percent in 2012. Among middle-schoolers, the drop was from 7.5 percent to 6.7 percent. But shifting trends among less common products have focused attention on electronic cigarettes – smokeless nicotine vaporizers whose use nearly doubled among teens in just one year, the CDC reported. It's still a small sliver of teens who use e-cigarettes – 1.1 percent of middle-schoolers and 2.8 percent of high schoolers – but the tobacco-less cigarettes are almost unregulated because they are not classified as "a tobacco product." Some public health experts speculate that teens may perceive them as safer than traditional cigarettes, and that marketing is raising teen awareness of e-cigarettes. Although some municipalities have banned sales to minors, there are no restrictions on marketing that targets children, the Boston Globe reports.

E-cigarettes on the rise among US teens: report Posted: 15 Nov 2013 09:09 AM PST A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that more US teens are embracing electronic alternatives to smoking tobacco-based cigarettes. According to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, released Thursday, hookahs and electronic or e-cigarettes, are gaining popularity among US young people. In 2012, 1.1 percent of middle school students (around ages 11-14) reported puffing on e-cigarettes, up from 0.6 percent in 2011. For high school students (around ages 14-18), e-cigarette use rose from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent, and hookah use increased from 4.1 percent to 5.4 percent over the same period.

Is this the world's worst love guru? Posted: 15 Nov 2013 08:20 AM PST Justin Lookadoo considers himself something of a love guru. Since 1989, the Christian motivational speaker has been traveling around the U.S., lecturing high school students on how they can make themselves more "dateable."

Getting Into the Rhythm of an Online Course Posted: 15 Nov 2013 07:14 AM PST The achievement came on the heels of a pretty impressive showing on my first test and decent performance on my discussion board post, if I do say so myself. Many experts say online learning is more challenging than its face-to-face counterpart. To earn high marks on my discussion board post and case study, it seemed I only needed to know how to conduct Internet searches and write fluently, skills I use every day.

Papal Neutrality in the Culture War? Posted: 15 Nov 2013 12:00 AM PST he doesn't want ideologues," said Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash.: Bishop Cupich was conveying instructions the papal nuncio had delivered from Rome to guide U.S. bishops in choosing a new leader. They chose Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., who has a master's degree in social work, to succeed Archbishop Timothy Dolan whom Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times describes thus: Yet here is further confirmation His Holiness seeks to move the Catholic Church to a stance of non-belligerence, if not neutrality, in the culture war for the soul of the West.

Trendsetting Teens Now Smoking E-Cigs to Make Themselves Look Cool Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:37 PM PST A report from the CDC on Thursday outlined a growing trend in e-cigarette use among teenagers. According to the study, e-cigarette use among middle school and high school students nearly doubled between 2011 and 2012. In 2012, the total number of students who had tried an e-cig was 1.78 million.

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