Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot

What are your plans for New Year’s eve? Britain’s Health Education Authority publicly urged “young people to prepare now” by buying condoms to take with them when they go out to celebrate the end of the 1900s. Good timing: two weeks later, a survey by British condom-manufacturer Durex found that about half of the world’s youth hope to celebrate the dawn of the year 2000 by having sex. After the fireworks are over, 60 percent of British youth, aged 16–21, hope to end the night with a ...um... bang, and 17 percent of virgins hope to lose their innocence that night. (Reuters, 2) ...On the other hand, most people fail to keep their new year’s resolutions.