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In this article: The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Northeast Philadelphia

ANOTHER school year is ending, at least for year 12s, while another schoolies week beckons. And along with it there is the usual risk of alcohol-fuelled mayhem ending in regret or remorse, and sometimes in tragedy. Though some like to think...

In this article: Sydney University

There are calls to raise the legal age of drinking to 19 because of growing evidence about the impact of alcohol on a maturing brain. Really smart countries now have a national agenda to maximise not just the ''mental health'' of their...

In this article: Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Beijing, and China

...reached 20-24 years of age were married by the time they were 18. Of these, 22.6% were wed before 16, and 2.6% before 13. The legal age for girls to marry in India is 18, but where child marriages are the norm, as in rural Rajasthan,...

In this article: Jodhpur, India, Suicide, Opium, and AIDS

...drinking earlier, but not with the girl. The girl's mother declined to have her daughter tested for sexual activity, police said. The legal age for sexual consent for women in West Virginia is 16. Miller entered a written plea of not...

In this article: West Virginia, Continuance, and Bottle Caps