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February 21st, 2011
02:38 PM ET

You Choose! Winning & Losing Stories

-Oral Sex & Cancer
According to new research out of the University of California, the human papilloma virus or HPV may now be overtaking tobacco as the leading cause of oral cancers in America in people under the age of 50.  Every year 37,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer.  The researchers are trying to get a crucial message out to teens:  oral sex carriers as many of the same risks as vaginal sex.  Via CNN

-Toddler Tantrums
According to a new report by the University of Pennsylvania, the part of the brain that regulates emotion and controls social behavior is underdeveloped at that age.  But there's a trade off.  That underdeveloped part of the brain actually makes it easier for kids to master a new language.  They also say that the best way to handle a tantrum is to stay calm and ignore the bad behavior.  Via CNN

-Royal Hunger Strike
A Mexican woman says she's been on a hunger strike for at least 8 days to demand an invitation to the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton.  The woman has set up a tent outside the British Embassy in Mexico City.     She says she intends to continue the strike as long as necessary.  So far roughly 1,900 names are on the coveted guest list.  Via CNN
Filed under: Ali Velshi • Anchors • You Choose
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  1. Joe

    Oral sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  2. Stephen

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  3. Kimo Kekahuna

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  4. Mike

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  5. Billy

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  6. m

    -Oral Sex & Cancer

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  7. Duane Light

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  8. bill

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  9. moore

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  10. Andy Ros

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  11. Hello Please

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  12. Weston Shelton

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  13. Trent

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  14. Eric

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  15. Randy

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  16. miller

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  17. Colin

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  18. Jaxonsdad

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  19. Matthew Craig

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  20. Jenny Nicosia

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  21. Arlene

    -Oral Sex & Cancer

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  22. Jef

    -Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  23. bp

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    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  24. Scott

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  25. JC

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  26. Cz

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  27. Jack

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  28. wyatt earp

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  29. jay

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  30. Colin white

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm |
  31. NoWAY

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  32. Matt

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  33. Lupe

    -Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  34. David Vensland

    Oral Sex & Cancer – I don't believe it!!

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  35. Not so old, old lady

    Oral Sex Could Cause Cancer.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  36. David

    -Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  37. Tony

    Hahha looks like everyone wants to know "Oral Sex & Cancer"

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  38. Justine

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  39. Kyle

    Oral sex and cancer – I want to know how these are related and rather I should be concerned

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  40. miriam beyene

    toddler tantrums. of course. every toddler has a tantrum and all toddlers cannot keep a tantrum in.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  41. robert

    Oral sex and canCer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  42. Orla Stuart - Santa Cruz, CA

    Royal Hunger Strike

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  43. Scott

    Oral sex and cancer!

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  44. Don

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  45. Tony

    Royal Hunger Strike

    February 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
  46. Dorese Hamilton

    You need to look at gas prices in the US Virgin Islands where there is a oil refinery, we are paying 3.99 a gallon for regular gas.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:48 pm |
  47. Robin

    Oral Sex & Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:48 pm |
  48. First and Last time voter

    Oral Sex & Cancer-–

    Really man?? you guys just couldn't do a simple poll app?

    February 21, 2011 at 2:48 pm |
  49. Justine

    My friend just survived a battle with Stage iV throat cancer, and the doctors believe oral sex with a partner with HPV was the likely cause. I had never heard anything like this before.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
  50. Don P.

    Please explain the oral sex/ cancer issue.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
  51. Don Schroeder

    oral sex and cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
  52. F.B. Reed

    Recently I was on National Radio. I spoke of all
    the work I've done for others, like on Indian Pueblos,
    migrant cliniics, schools, prisons, etc. and that now
    at 72 I trying to survivie on Social Security (a joke) and
    $20 .a week food stamps. I can't buy anything, enough food,
    stamps, soap, shampoo, a new dress not from Good will.
    People were really sweet. Some sent me boxes of goodies or
    gift cards or small donations. There really are good people
    in this country. I have a photo of myself with all the letters, Fran

    February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
  53. dave

    Oral Sex & Cancer1

    February 21, 2011 at 2:50 pm |
  54. Don P.

    Oral Sex & Cancer
    Explain quickly before I die.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:50 pm |
  55. paul

    Oral Sex & Cancer
    Hope it's not bad for guys.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:50 pm |
  56. Kathryn M.

    Oral Sex and Cancer

    February 21, 2011 at 2:52 pm |
  57. zoe

    oh PLEASE, people. Are you all morons? It will be some medical study from somewhere that shows potential risk of some sort, but it won't be conclusive by any means. What a waste of time.

    Nothing in the universe matters but the Royal wedding. Get with the program.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:53 pm |
  58. Becka

    royal hunger strike

    February 21, 2011 at 2:56 pm |
  59. Danielle

    Toddler Tantrums
    Much more interested in this than something about oral sex. I doubt anyone has oral so much as to cause cancer- and I bet it's oral cancer.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:57 pm |
  60. Jerry nugent

    Oral sex
    One of my favorite subjects

    February 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm |
  61. Joey

    ORAL SEX LOL
    THese perverts.

    Where's the option for "STudy shows CNN will rise to #1 again and Glenn Beck will be fired"?

    February 21, 2011 at 2:58 pm |
  62. Bob

    Oral Sex & Cancer
    Is it the mail who performs oral sex on the female or vice versa that causes cancer.

    February 21, 2011 at 2:59 pm |
  63. Eric

    Thats all you wanted to say about Oral Sex and cancer?

    Jeez, was it necessary to poll everyone for a 20 second story?

    February 21, 2011 at 3:00 pm |
  64. Manuel

    Ignorance can kill people. The more we educate people about STDs the more chances we have of avoiding them. I remember seen a case of syphilis with the pustule on the back of the neck of the patient. He hired a prostitute and had her saddle up on his neck. She had a pustule on her Labia Mayora and passed the illness to him at the area of contact.

    February 21, 2011 at 3:01 pm |
  65. Michael Omoregbee

    TThe media and their political contributors are at it again. I thank God for giving us a President, who will not rust this country to war because someone said so. I am surprised that there none in the media telling these young men and women who losing their lives on something that does not exist (jobs). The entire world is in economic recession, and there are no jobs even in the United States because I have not had a job in three years with a master's degree international relations, and about to complete my Ph.D in health care management. Somebody needs to make these young people in the Middle East and North Africa aware that democracy takes at least 200 hundred years to mature, and looking at this region histories...Democracy is not practical

    February 22, 2011 at 8:10 pm |

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