Apart from the eerie similarity to the opening plot point of the Matt Damon vehicle The Adjustment Bureau (handsome potential New York City mayor brought down by ill-advised photograph), the most striking thing about the …
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No Decline in Sperm Counts After All, Danish Data Show
In the dystopian book and film Children of Men, human beings suddenly stop being able to have children. There’s no real explanation given for the change — though there’s talk of a precipitous decline in sperm count quality — but the loss of the ability to reproduce essentially robs humanity of its future, and leads to the utter …
Family MattersRelationships
Weiner’s Wife Dodges the Role of Supportive Spouse
With the world a-Twitter over suggestive photos that the aptly named New York Representative Anthony Weiner dispatched to at least six women he didn’t know, it’s hard to deny that these are squirm-inducing days for the wives …
CDC: Why Gay and Bisexual Teens Are More Likely to Risk Their Health
In the largest study of its kind, government health officials report that gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers are significantly more likely to engage in risky, unhealthy behaviors — such as smoking, drinking, using drugs, …
Dropping the ‘Disorder’ from PTSD. What Do Psychiatric Labels Mean?
What’s wrong with me? The question of where to draw the line between normal and abnormal and how to label our mental differences has become more vexing than ever. It’s an issue that fuels the continuing debates over Americans’ …
Where Have All the Women Gone? Why Sex Selection Persists
Greater and greater numbers of boys are being born for every girl. In her new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Beijing-based journalist Mara Hvistendahl investigates …
With Two False Starts, Why Officials Can’t Finger the Source of the E. Coli Outbreak
German officials were forced for the second time to retract a statement about the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 and sickened hundreds.
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The Good Daughter: Cate Edwards Stands By Her Indicted Father
Parents are embarrassing. It’s part of our job description. We wear the wrong clothes or talk too loudly or just breathe. Yet it could always be worse: as if it weren’t bad enough that former presidential hopeful and U.S. …
Screening for Ovarian Cancer Doesn’t Increase Women’s Survival
In general, getting screened for cancer seems like the responsible thing to do, since preventing the disease is always better than treating it once it takes hold. But the latest research shows that screening women for ovarian …
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Q&A: When You Go Hunting for Psychopaths, They Turn Up Everywhere
Psychologist Robert Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify psychopathy — not only in prisons and institutions. If you give the test to CEOs or other corporate executives, Hare says, a …
Is Brain Cancer Stalking Major League Baseball?
Follow major League Baseball and you expect to read about a lot of guys suffering physical problems — blown elbows, torn rotator cuffs, wrecked knees. What you don’t expect to read about are brain tumors.