the latest example is a detailed presentation a graduate of duke university wrote about her sex life that proceeded to go viral on the internet, embarrassing the author and those she named. so what's going on here? is it that social norms are changing? or does the change have more to do with social media? vicki mabrey reports for our series "modern sex in america." >> reporter: that one wild college night can live on forever in viral videos, raunchy blogs, even in a power point presentation. a few weeks ago, karen owen, a recent duke university graduate, came to embody the perils of the "too much information" age. >> a recent duke university graduate has a lot of explaining to do. >> reporter: when she cataloged her campus conquests recently in a 42-page document that became a viral sensation. >> there's pictures of the men, their names, everything. >> reporter: the report quickly dubbed "the sex these," came complete with photos, paragraphs and ratings of the 13 men she claims to have bedded. the trouble was, she says she never intended it to go public. >> so, just move up here. >>

one duke university student rates the men she's slept with. she never expected it would end up in the hands of others. >>> and the small town in california made headlines when people learned how much city officials were getting paid. that town is not alone. it is happening across our country. we have a list of salaries that will shock you. and the party that could cost students more than their tuition. police slapped them with $86,000 in fine for a party? is that crossing the line? we're going to discuss that. >>> and we begin with big political news in key races across the country. with the november midterms 26 days away, in new york carl paladino is planning a statewide address in just a few hours. he has bought three minutes of tv time at 5:13 p.m. eastern time. what does he plan to say, and why is it such a mystery? >>> in florida another tea party backed republican marco rubio just finished a town hall meeting. it follows last night's heated debate in the senate race between rubio, governor charlie crist, running as an independent and dem

. >>> coming up on news4, new developments in the sex scandal at duke university. plus, an amuse. ride goes terribly wrong. >>> we are getting ready for a fabulous weekend, aren't we? >> let's start with today. >> isn't it gorgeous? >> how many adjectives cou you use? >> 75 degrees out there. >> how about 80 tomorrow. and no humidity. very light winds. enough of a breeze to keep the air going. if you have a boat, this is a great weekend to get the boat out there. this may be the last good time of the year. down toward the chesapeake bay, wherever you want to go, it really looking nice. temperature outside,we are sitting at 78 degrees with abundant sunshine. humidity, only 28%. very comfortable outside. winds out of the west southwest at about miles per hour out there on this friday. 77 in frederick. 77 in hagerstown. martinsburg, 77 degrees. winchester at . down toward leonard town, 74 degrees. ocean city, maryland, if you're thinking about going there, you'll pick a great weekend. temperature out there right now around 70degrees. the water temperature still nice and warm. normall

now in an address to duke university secretary of defense robert gates expressed concern that the military in the rest of the country are all suffering from a growing disconnect gates said that a majority of recruits and members of the military are coming from the south or from the mountainous west and that fewer and fewer of those people are from the mid atlantic or the north eastern regions he then went on to say that many people have an attitude saying that the military is something for other people to explain an apathetic approach that many americans have towards the military that serves to protect them now gates also weighed in on the way the military operates without a draft he praised the troops that have been battling on the front lines in iraq and afghanistan voluntarily repeatedly doing tours abroad because there isn't anyone else to do it this is a backhanded way of criticizing the population for not stepping up to a role margin numbers even though he said that he does think the military operation is going on just fine without the draft now it's no secret gates is probably going

. >>> a student documents and rates her sexual encounters with athletes at duke university. it was meant for her closest friends but it's gone viral and he world is reading all the intimate details today, thursday, october 7, 2010. >>> welcome to "today" on this thursday morning. i'm meredith vieira. >> i'm matt lauer. >> people waking up in colorado and utah are bracing for that severe weather system that spun tornadoes in arizona. >> dozens of homes damaged and so powerful it blocked a freight train and blew 18 wheelers off the road. >> they call themselves purvivors who are at risk of breast cancer and don't have the disease yet but choose to have their breasts remove when some consider that a radical course of auction. >> and speaking out for the first time, describing a horrendous fight. we will hear from him coming up. >>> what was marilyn monroe really like? a look at secret writings revealing a rather interesting side of the american icon including how she feared john f. kennedy's brother-in-law, actor peter lawford. >>> natalie morales is still at the newsdesk while

duke university gone by role she had already graduated when news broke she compiled this paper education beyond the classroom excelling in the realm of horizontal academics at the seemingly private university. i have to show dennis rodman here. not only does she have the pictures. >> there's the pictures. >> she has pictures then she has the different guys. she talks about what they did pros, cons, she talks about size, lasting power, very, very well equipped knew how to use his hardware. >> where do you rank on there? >> home me don't play that game any more. >> i already got my degree in frolicking. >> you have the wrong guy. you asked the wrong guy. >> there are probably lots of thesis about him. >> it's moving so fast and people are trying for the fast easy dollar. >> this was not supposed to be public. this was truly for the girls it seems to me. >> just like pama anderson i don't know how that tape got out there. >> i never saw a sex tape with me. >> so you think it's all fake? >> i think it's fa that's all f. >> they slipped that to the public on somebody's hands. >> i am not that

once they go off to duke university or out of the house, they are on their own. implanting that wise choices in there online life and off-line life is really important. and it's falling back to the parents. and the other thing is that it concerns me, these kinds of stories where parents will say, you know what? my child is immune. they are not immune. anything can happen online with any kid. we have to get parents to become good cyber parents. we cannot turn a parent into a bad or good parents. it's an on going process from when they are 4 or 5 first getting on to when they get in high school. >> where can this be found? >> internet safety 101.org, and also at amazon. >> all good advice from you. thank you. >>> tears of joy in chile as the drill breaks through to the trapped miners. [ female announcer ] stay once...

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>>> there is yet another scandal at duke university. it involves a recent graduate named karen owen. she created a power point presentation listing her sexual conquests from her sophomore year through her senior year. in addition to listing the name of duke athletes with whom she had sex, she also rates their performance and charts them on a bar graph. owen emailed her 42 page report to friends. they passed on it to other people. now it is going viral. she has expressed regret at her actions. it readvisenother scandal back in 2006 when a stripper accused three lacrosse players of raping her at a teen party. they were eventually exonerated and the charges were dropped. >>> it has been a full week and there are no solid bansz what happened to a missing tourist along the texas-mexico board. his wife that he was murdered by pirates with a mexico cartel. now they are asking to step up the efforts along the border. >>> as the mystery of the waters seem to grow even deep he, texas governor perry is stepping up his demand for answers giving mex

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now the school, duke university, has taken some action. what's that? >> yeah. duke university is investigating and they are also reaching out to the individuals that have been injured by this. >> bill: reaching out. really? >> reaching out. do you need help? do you need counseling? >> bill: they contacted them and said do you need counseling? have you been injured by this? do you have emotional problems from it. >> bill: duke is actually feeling sorry for the guys. >> wouldn't you be if you were rated a 3 or 4? >> bill: don't drag me into this. [ laughter ] >> it's a violation of their privacy and inappropriate but -- >> bill: terrible thing for this woman has graduated now. >> nothing they can do to her. >> bill: this is the point of this thing, you have no privacy ladies and gentlemen, nor do i nor does the is it legal team ever more ever because of the internet. if everything you do, everything you do there is a possibility that it will be recorded secretly or somebody will talk about it and put it on the internet with your picture there, that's it, all priv

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a few weeks ago, karen owen, a recent duke university graduate, came to embody the perils of the too much information age. >> a recent duke university graduate has a lot of explaining to do. >> reporter: when she cataloged her campus conquests recently in a 42-page document that became a viral sensation. >> it has pictures of the men, their names, everything. >> reporter: the report, quickly dubbed "the sex thesis," came complete with photos, bar graphs, and ratings of the men that she claims to have bedded. the trouble was, she says she never intended it to go public. owen is not the only one to divulge all the gory details. take tucker max. the stories of his collegiate sexploits have made him a small fortune. >> the only reason i banged the second one was, like, we could have a threesome. >> reporter: and a big name. >> i see one more. okay. >> how many booty calls have you had in your life? >> how many girls have i had sex with? >> just straight booty calls. >> how would i possibly count -- how many beers have you drank in your life? >> reporter: he's not running from the publici

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by the way, we also reached out to duke university. they wouldn't go on camera either but told us the well-being of their students is a top priority and a top concern and they're reaching out to everyone involved. now back to you. >> jeff rossen reporting there. okay, so let's get to the legal ramifications of this case. i'm joined by attorney former child abuse prosecutor wendy murphy. good to see you today. >> good to be with you. >> who shares any kind of responsibility here for this mock thesis, other than the student herself? i mean, the university? the blogs that have posted it? what do you think? >> there's a lot of -- a lot to go around in response to that question. including, perhaps this woman's parents, who i don't think did a great job. you know, i feel bad for her and i hope she's getting some help. but it's just a sad commentary that she thinks this is something she should be boasting about publicly. it's sad commentary on what's going on with women and how they view themselves and where they find their value on campus. b

vaccine is tested at duke university. it target as gene that spurs cancer growth. patients who receive the vaccine went an average of 14 months before the disease progressed, that compares with just over six months for the other patients. there were no side effects related to the vaccine. the next step in the research is conduct the study that compares patients on the vaccine with those on a placebo. it's going to be difficult to find sick people willing to take the chance they are not getting that treatment. >> a new study says children with adhd may be at greater risk for depression. researchers at the university of maryland found the children diagnosed with adhd between 4 and 6 years of age had higher depression rates between the ages of 9 and 18. also, adhd kids were almost eight times more likely than their peers to have made a suicide plan. about 18% attempted to kill themselves. the risk was greater for girls. >> the man who developed invitro fertilizization won the nobel prize in medicine. 85-year-old robert edwards started working on invitro procedures in

. >> reporter: by enrolling her at duke university in an intensive five-day program run by dr. nancy zucker. >> so it's not just a simple fix like, eat this, right, because you've tried that. >> right. >> we're not just talking about, i tonight like my broccoli and i'm not going to eat my peas and scrunching her nose at tomato juice. >> reporter: dr. zucker runs the center for eating disorders at duke where they're just starting to study food feophobia. can you take me inside the mind of a picky eater? >> my best guess is, where we would look at a plate of food and say, i wonder what that tastes like, they would say, danger, danger. >> reporter: for those with the disorder, it disrupts their entire lives. >> every kid goes through food fads and phases, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches day after day after day, macaroni and cheese, and that's normal. a picky eater is one for whom that var ya billty doesn't shift. >> reporter: why did you want to come here? >> sometimes i'm hungry when we go out for dinner, there's nothing i like at that place. or when i'm at birthday parties, i

. >> reporter: he was diagnosed last year and is at a study at duke university where he is getting an experimental vaccine with along with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. it found it extended the average survival time from 15 months after diagnosis to 26. >> it educates the immune system to produce antibodies ormagic bullets that go and find the tumor and help the immune system attack the tumor. >> reporter: patients saw their tumors stop growing for 14 months compared to six months for those who didn't get it. an aggressive cancer gene fuels a third of the neuroblastomas. even though the study is small the findings are significant. >> it is how we are looking at vaccines a little bit by targeting the tumors themselves. >> reporter: and lee sullivan knows some patients taking the vaccine are alive five to six years later. >> let's hope when i am at five years, some people will be at ten years. >> reporter: it is the most common form of brain cancer and 10,000 new cases every year in the u.s. the vaccine has one more phase of clinical trials, phase three before it could be up for

one duke university student is calling her works on the topic her thesis. karen owens sent a 42-screen power point presentation to three of her friends entitled and education beyond the classroom excelling in the realm of horizontal academics. it compares and ranks how the partners stacked up against each other. the friends forwarded it and then they forwarded it and you know how they goes. she apologized. she never meant to emotionally hurt the people named in the paper. [ laughing ] >> i think it's a fair -- >> i may be old-fashioned. >> where you were right. >> exactly. [ laughing ] >> you are one and two. >> you're feeling all right. >> gees. >> but if you're down at the bottom, nobody likes that. >> oh, no. a little bit of discretion here. maybe a little bit. >> ya. >>> let's move on. >> average is all you want to be. >> take a look at the weather which is above average. we are well above a 71-degree day. we hit 77 for a high and we're going to continue nothing but sunshine friday, saturday and shortened week next week to a holiday weekend. a little bi

secretary of defense should address even before presenting his recruiting sales speech to the duke university students robert gates should have paid attention to mostly ignored advice from the general mcchrystal when he indicated the most pressing challenge for the u.s. army in afghanistan that is to drastically change conventional operational culture within the pentagon and the u.s. army which results in such a heinous crimes as killing afghan civilians for drugs and for fun until robert gates start promoting the unconventional thinking all this sale speech to expand the are all to see systems at the u.s. universities are not going to change them a man to them and to resolve the man challenge for the u.s. policy in afghanistan and pakistan. in pakistan suspected militants have attacked least twenty seven tankers carrying fuel for nato troops stationed in afghanistan the followed correct blocking a vital supply route for coalition forces it's seen as retaliation for a nato helicopter strike where three soldiers were killed it's the latest in a series of nato raids in pakistan's tribal border

>>reporrer: cooper is the chairmannof the psychology and neuroscience deeartment at duke university, who says? >> as our mobilttincreased, it became important for families to know if they moved from one community to another the things their kids were expected to know would be rouuhly ssmilar. >>reporter::what do we do? >> the first problem is that >>reporter: not to mention lifestyles like spending the summer at the beach. even though american kids spend more hours in the classroom than almost all other countries, we do is in fewer days. >> i would add 20 days and move to the modified calendar so kids would go for about -- what% is that? 50 days on, ten weeks on, two weeks off. 3 c1 >>reporter: he would fill those off weeks with services that care for kids and advance their learning year-round. >> that would e beneficial in several ways. however, i wonder what the repercussions would be on the area day kars. -p>>reporter: hh thinks they mut adjust. >> the way kids go tt school 31 today doesn't fit in thh way the vast majority of americans live. -p>> you walkkin to tte classrom pnd ju

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secretary of defense should address even before presenting his recruiting sales speech to the duke university students robert gates should have paid attention to mostly ignored advice from the general mcchrystal when he indicated the most pressing challenge for the u.s. army in afghanistan that is to drastically change conventional operational culture within the pentagon and the u.s. army which results in such a heinous crimes as killing evidence of aliens for drugs and for fun i'm told robert gates start promoting the unconventional thinking all the sales speech to expand the ira which is the systems at the u.s. universities are not going to change them a man to them and to resolve the man challenge for the u.s. policy in afghanistan and pakistan. it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. and a space the final frontier could soon turn into a tourist hot spot and it's nothing to do with the international space station a russian firms promising to launch the world's first orbital hotel well it sounds like an exciting getaway you know it's easy to stay safe havens cannot

secretary of defense should address even before presenting his recruiting sales speech to the duke university students broadbridge gates should have paid attention to mostly ignored advice from the general mcchrystal when he indicated the most pressing challenge for the u.s. army in afghanistan that is to drastically change conventional operational culture within the pentagon and the u.s. army which results in a such a heinous crimes as killing african civilians for drugs and for fun until robert gates start promoting their unconventional thinking all this sale speech to expand the aral to see systems at the u.s. universities are not going to change them a man to them and to resolve it man challenge for the u.s. policy in afghanistan and pakistan. we're going to khrushchev for a military contributor here r.t. now with a weekend on its way late friday night here in moscow so too is moscow and if you're in the russian capital and this week the program showcasing the quieter side to all the bustle of the city the talk about patrick palms is a beautiful picturesque place crowned with swanky resta

a student documents and rates her sexual encounters with athletes at duke university. it was meant for her closest friends but has gone viral. the world is reading the intimate details today. thursday, october 7th, 2010. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and meredith vieira. >> i'm meredith vieirvieira. >> people waking up in parts of colorado and utah are bracing for the severe weather system that spawned tornadoes on wednesday in arizona. >> dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. the twisters so powerful they derailed a parked freight train and blew 18 wheelers off the road. we'll have the latest in a live report straight ahead. >>> they call himselves previvers. at risk of breast cancer. they don't have the disease yet but choose to have their breasts removed. why, when some consider that to be a radical course of action? we're going to talk to two women about that. they have opted to do that route. >>> the survivor of a vicious bear attack speaks out for the first time describing their horrendous fight. >>> here's a question for you. what was m

duke university survey said that employers lose about $80 million a year. on full-timeers who are obese because they are less productive. >> new privacy concerns for facebook users tonight. there is a new feature allowing yyur friends to control what groups to join. judy kurtz explains in tonight's "word on the web". judy? >> it seems whenever facebook comes out with an updated feature there is controversy. but some critics of the new group's option say this time facebook users have reason to worry. the group's feature debuted yesterday on the site t currently lets users add friends to public groups without their permission. facebook friend, mark zuckerberg to a group posed as man boy love association. zuckerberg abruptly left the group. some argue that similar pranks could have reaa consequences. one computer securityyexpert said that if a facebook friend adds someone to a group linked to illegal activity like terrorism it could lead to a legal nightmare. facebook is defending thee3 ú%oup's feature. site saying in a statement, if you don't trust someone t

duke university researchers say that is the total of employee medical costs, lost productivity because of health problems, as well as absence from work. altogether the annual cost of obesity are almost $70,000 for each of these woman and $15,000 for each obese man. the findings have implications for employers who must pay rising insurance fees for those workers. "he nbc series "parenthood chronicles parents raising an autistic child. there are four major signs and symptoms of autism. >> i kind of always knew something was not quite right. she says her infant son jackson never smile. he cried a lot and barely made eye contact with other people. >> it was depressing there for a little bit. i was blaming myself, like what did i do wrong when i was pregnant. >> when jackson turn one year old, she says his behavior became even more unusual. he obsessively stared at lights, constantly should his head back and forth, and had his hand in his mouth all the time during >> he was spinning in circles, doing the hand to mouth, staring at the line, shaking his head, and i did not want to go out in p

duke university researchers say obese workers cost employers more than $73 billion a year. according to the study the cost includes medical costs, lost productist on the job because of health problems and absence from work. it included people who were normal weight, overweight and obese . the rescue of the miners is just a few day away. what doctors doing to prepare the men for what could be a perilous rise. >> and the pakistan president shoots back at his handling of terrorism. . >>> officials say they are days from rescuing the trapped miners. today doctors detailed the physical challenges they face as they prepare for being pulled to the surface. we have details on what happens next. >> reporter: with at least one big champagne celebration done it's back to business at the mine where 33 trapped men are just days from being rescued. officials used a video camera to inspect the tunnel for stability they reinforced part of it with steel pipes. >> we have set three of the 15, 16 pipes that we are going to insert and we are expecting no major problem. >> reporter: one it's re

patients participating in the trial at duke university are beating the odds. >> one of the most amazing things we have seen is that several patients have lived over five years. >> those on the vaccine went to an average of 14 months before their disease progressed compared with six months for other patients. and next step is to launch a study that compares those with the vaccine curses those with a placebo. kids carry text books, notebooks, musical instruments away more than they might think. it is sending more youngsters to doctors' offices around the country. >> it makes an arch. >> overloaded backpacks are weighing down some of today's youngest students. like most middle schoolers, the 11 year-old carries a backpack to and from school every day. >> it is a relief to take it off. >> i am thinking it cannot be good for his back or his development. >> while doctors say there is no evidence of permanent damage, doctors are concerned about the pain the kids are enduring, especially the younger ones. >> there are studies that show that kids they carry heavier weights than what we recommend

the 43-page report details sexual trysts that she had with athletes at duke university. aaron recently interviewed karen owen and to the best of our knowledge, you're the only person who has interviewed her thus far, is that right. >> that's correct. >> what did he tell you about why she wrote this mock thesis sis. >> we were the first site to publish it with the names redacted and i have to tell you, she did not do this as a way to get famous. she saw it as a fun thing to do between girlfriends. she had a thing for athletes and she had a back groichbd in anthropology and thought it was funny. she never expected the world to see it. >> she sent this to three of her girlfriends, is that right? >> it's remarkable given the level of detail that's there that she really only intended it for three people is what she told me. >> does she regret writing the report? >> she doesn't regret writing it, i don't believe, she doesn't regret the actions described in there, but what she does regret is that she violated the privacy of her partners. she definitely didn't want to hurt anyon

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