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<title>A Prom's Proviso: Mandated Parental Training (Trees And Things)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357</link>
<description>Every spring, like clockwork, thousands of high school students in the United States prepare to attend the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prom">prom&lt;/a>. A good time, full of life changing experiences, is usually had by all, though there are times when it leads to &lt;a href="http://life.familyeducation.com/teen/prom/36338.html">trouble&lt;/a>. Many school districts usually attempt to dissuade teens from letting the prom experience become deadly with graphic depictions of what happens &lt;a href="http://abclo</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 5 May 2007 09:02:13 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Re: does it show?</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#6</link>
<description>Oh yes, I agree that if parents don't already know about the dangers of drug abuse and sexual promiscuity, it's already too late by prom time. &#160;And I also am somewhat inclined to think that the human race is beyond salvaging, and that the best solutio</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 15:32:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: does it show?</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#5</link>
<description>&lt;i>It's fascinating that the first comment on this story leaps into science fictional utopianism right away.&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;Oh yeah...I read a LOT of NIven. &#160;Don't get me started about organ banks...or mother hunts.&lt;p>&#10;But like I said in the post...I don't ne</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 14:17:52 EST</pubDate>
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<title>thefadd: I Don't Know The First Thing About Proms</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#4</link>
<description>Talk about degenerates, in my senior class more people went to the horse track than our prom that night.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 12:47:59 EST</pubDate>
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<title>keta: Be Smart, Kids, (and get off my fucking lawn)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#3</link>
<description>Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.&lt;p>&#10;My folks let me host a big-ass prom party the year I graduated from high school. &#160;I was allowed forty or so invitees, ended up with closer to one hundred, and except for the hanging basket that was swiped fr</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 12:43:22 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Re: Want a better world?</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#2</link>
<description>It's fascinating that the first comment on this story leaps into science fictional utopianism right away. &#160;I'm fond of utopian solutions myself, but of course, at the present time we don't actually have a way to be able to switch the human reproductiv</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 10:03:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: Want a better world?</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/2/91220/68357#1</link>
<description>Drug training for parents...&lt;i>at the time of the prom?&lt;/i>. &#160;Ummm, perhaps that horse has been out of the barn since...I dunno, age 13?&lt;p>&#10;Forget that shit...here's a simple (note: simple may not be easy) way to get this species back on track.&lt;p>&#10;Let</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 5 May 2007 10:52:38 EST</pubDate>
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