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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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Cleveland Municipal School Sex Education
With an eye towards AIDS, STDs and teen pregnancy, the CMSD is about to institute a radical approach to sex education that will begin in kindergarten. Kids in K-3rd grade will learn about how viruses work and about appropriate and in appropriate touching. Grades 4-6 will learn about reproductive health. Older kids will learn more about relationship issues, AID/HIV teen pregnancy, and respect for sexual orientation. Lisa Ann Pinkerton will have the details.

Diversity in Health Care
University Hospitals has just launched a new program to recruit more minority doctors to the hospital. Rickard Grant, the first African-American orthopaedic surgeon to join the hospital staff full time, has just been named as the first Chairholder of the Edgar B. Jackson Endowed Chair, the only endowed position in the nation that promotes and ensures diversity among future medical leaders. Doctors Grant and Jackson will join Rick Jackson to talk about diversity in medicine.

University Hospitals

Coast Guard Anti-Terrorism Exercises
The U.S. Coast Guard has begun a series of exercises aimed at protecting the northern border of the United States, including yearly exercises using live ammunition. The Guard has now come under fire from environmentalists and others. Elaine Falk will have that report.

Ninth Coast Guard District's training zones information

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