We constantly hear about deathly diseases that endanger women. Heart disease. Breast cancer. Diabetes. Yet none of these are the number one cause of death for women under 35—surprisingly, the number one killer is car accidents. While thousands of women pass their driving tests every day, modern lifestyle puts us at a huge risk of getting into a car accident, and even worse, dying from one.
So what’s to blame? Multitasking. The article “The Scary New Truth About Women and Driving,” in the January 2010 issue of Glamour, discusses how …

We’ve all heard the many concerns and underlying assumptions about teenage girls engaging in risky sexual behavior as a result of the media, celebrities and music. Yet, it’s too easy to blame shows like “Glee” for unprotected sex and teen pregnancy. And while people will continue to point fingers at a liberal society for encouraging sex, a recent study from the Nov. 2009 issue of “Pediatrics,” the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, suggests otherwise.
According to the study, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh claim that the chance …

While most high school students in the country are stressed about final exams, Christmas shopping, or just looking forward to the holidays, that isn’t the case for the teenagers at South Philadelphia High School.
The increasing friction between black and Asian students at SPHS culminated in a chain of physical attacks, two off-campus fights, and a lunchroom brawl last week, which resulted in seven Asian students receiving minor injuries and ten students suspended. On Friday, Dec. 4, more than a dozen Asian students decided to skip school for the day and …

The folks at Fuji TV traveled to South Korea to investigate and compare how Korean and Japanese men differ in views of men getting cosmetic surgery. That’s right — the cosmetic surgery hype in Asia is gaining popularity even among men now, not just women. Survey shows that most Japanese men have a problem with the idea, while Korean men see no problem with getting cosmetic surgery. 76% of South Korean women had no problem with the idea either. What do you think of ‘plastic men’? Is there a double …

Though we’re all drowning in the recession, apparently certain cultural factors allow Asians Americans to stay employed better than everyone else, as statistics show that the unemployment rate for Asians in October was 7.5 percent compared to 10.2 percent nationwide. [via Hyphen Blog, from the USA Today article, “Cultural factors help limit recession’s impact”]
37-year-old John Cho made People magazine’s list of 110 of the “Sexiest Men Alive” (he’s on page 124 of the Nov. 30 issue). He’s featured as “Sexiest Man With a Badge” for his role in FlashForward. On …