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  • Coupling Reduces Stress

    Coupling Reduces Stress

    Newswise — Being married has often been associated with improving people’s health, but a new study suggests that having that long-term bond also alters hormones in a way that reduces stress. Unmarried people in a committed, romantic relationship show the same reduced responses to stress as do married people, said Dario Maestripieri, Professor in Comparative [...]

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  • Adoptive Children of Lesbian and Gay Couples Developing Well

    Adoptive Children of Lesbian and Gay Couples Developing Well

    Newswise — Should the sexual orientation of prospective adoptive parents be considered when placing children in adoptive homes? According to the results of a new University of Virginia study, the answer may be “no.” In a sample of 106 adoptive children living in different parts of the United States, youngsters were developing well regardless of [...]

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  • APA Praises Prop 8 Decision as Victory for Science, Human Dignity

    APA Praises Prop 8 Decision as Victory for Science, Human Dignity

    Newswise — The American Psychological Association hailed Wednesday’s ruling overturning Proposition 8, in which voters had taken away the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. “The U.S. District Court ruling today affirming the right of same-sex couples to marry in California is a victory for both science and basic human dignity,” said APA [...]

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  • Whence Next, Best Men?

    Whence Next, Best Men?

    Two steps forward, one step back and then waiting in the wings may best describe the next moves for Proposition 8. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled Aug. 4 that Prop 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. That led to hasty predictions that the issue was fast closing in on the [...]

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  • Study of Sex Workers in Vietnam

    Study of Sex Workers in Vietnam

    More than a million dollars in U.S. federal funds will be used to examine homosexual male prostitutes in Vietnam. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.44 million for a “study of drug and sexual risk among young male sex workers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.” “There are an estimated 8.3 million [...]

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    ` Before Federer v. Nadal, before Borg v. McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed Wimbledon grounds, was a battle of titans: the world’s No. 1 tennis player against the No. 2; America against Germany; democracy against fascism. For five superhuman sets, the duo’s brilliant shotmaking kept the Centre Court crowdand the worldspellbound.

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