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June 04, 2012 | | UNPROTECTED In an excerpt from her new book, As Texas Goes…, Gail Collins highlights how the state pushes abstinence sex education yet has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy. So why is the rest of the country paying half a billion dollars a year to support their teen mothers? BLOODSHED The Syria peace plan backed by United Nations envoy Kofi Annan may have fully unraveled. With the activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting that 80 Syrian soldiers were killed by rebels over the weekend, anti-regime forces said Monday that they are no longer tied by the Annan plan, which they said has failed to stem bloodshed in the embattled nation. “We have decided to end our commitment to this [plan], and starting from that date [Friday] we began defending our people,” rebel spokesman Maj. Sami al-Kurdi told Reuters. A council of rebel military leaders had given President Bashar al-Assad until last Friday to put an end to violence in the country. DISASTER A plane crash that claimed the lives of all 153 passengers Sunday outside a Nigerian airport may have caused deaths on the ground as well, rescue workers said Monday. “The fear is that since it happened in a residential area, there may have been many people killed,” said National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushau Shuaib. While the cause of the crash is not yet clear, emergency workers continued to comb through the debris Monday in the neighborhood where the plane went down and are reported to have recovered 48 bodies. The plane slammed into an area packed with businesses and residential buildings near Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Sunday afternoon. ANONYMITY Jerry Sandusky’s alleged victims will have to use their own names in court, Judge John Cleland ruled in Pennsylvania on Monday. The judge also said that no form of communication—including tweets or other electronic media—will be allowed from the courtroom. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for the case, in which the former Penn State assistant football coach stands accused of having sexually abused 10 boys. Sandusky faces 52 charges spread out over 15 years. The former coach, who has been confined to his home pending trial, has denied the charges. Two hundred fifty reporters have registered to attend Sandusky’s trial, according to The Associated Press. NABBED Luka Magnotta, the porn star suspect in the Canadian body parts case, was arrested Monday in an Internet café in Berlin. The Daily Beast’s Winston Ross on the evidence of his heinous crimes—and whether Montreal police could have stopped the murderer before it was too late. | | 
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