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Washington, DC, USA. States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system. But the $144 billion in stimulus money for state and local fiscal relief won’t make up for budget cuts in every state. Miami Dade College, the nation’s largest community college with 167,000 students, will be forced to limit enrollment this fall because of state budget cuts. Califo... |
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07-01-09
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Bloomington, IN, USA. Most vibrators are kept around the house under assumed identities (e.g., as a relaxer for back cramps). However, two parallel studies conducted among nationally representative samples of adult American men and women show that vibrator use during sexual interactions is common. The new and more comprehensive data indicates use reported by approximately 53 percent of women and 45 percent of men ages 18 to 60.
Not only is vibrator use common, but the two studies also show t... |
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06-29-09
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Winston-Salem, NC, USA. It shouldn't come as a surprise that men, as a group, achive much greater consensus about whom they find attractive than do women. The surprising part of a new study is the degree to which such perceptions can be quantifed.
That is, the question before the researchers was not how attractive any individual might be (based on a subjective measure) but the commonality of perceived attractiveness when men and women are considered as separate groups. Answering the question ... |
06-28-09
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Washington, DC, USA. Even as the recession chips away at mental health services across the country, Georgia’s around-the-clock psychiatric hotline is finding a way to weather the storm — and other states are watching closely. The Peach State’s Crisis and Access Line’s philosophy is simple: By making it easier and faster for patients to get the psychiatric care they need, states can address problems before they potentially lead to expensive hospitalizations and even incarcerations. Laun... |
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Boston, MA, USA. Some food groups in the Mediterranean diet are more important than others in promoting health and longer life, according to new research. Eating more vegetables, fruits, nuts, edible seeds (pulses - beans, lentils, peas, etc.) and olive oil, and drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, while not consuming a lot of meat or excessive amounts of alcohol is linked to people living longer.
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06-25-09
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Augusta, GA, USA. The field of sexual medicine has been hobbled by values-driven views of morality and culture that precluded closer examination of physical causes. Also, Dr. Ronald Lewis says treatments focused mostly on men, and rarely on women or couples, hinders effectiveness.
However, the field has undergone a renewal in recent years, with measureable benefits, especially for female-male couples. Lewis, an impotence expert, is chief of the urology section at the Medical College of Georgi... |
06-23-09
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Riverside, CA, USA. Same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species, from worms to frogs to birds, concludes a new review of existing research. A pair of evolutionary biologists found that the majority of existing studies focus on why same-sex behavior in animals may exist, but the studies do not fully examine its consequences.
There is a caveat, however. The review also reports that same-sex behaviors are not the same across species, and that r... |
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06-22-09
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Waltham, MA, USA. A new and novel social history of intercessory prayer studies reveals growing religious diversity and a diminishing belief in science to measure the value of prayer.
Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new research shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory pra... |
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06-19-09
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Washington, DC, USA. Clipping away at a $590 million deficit, Rhode Island this April raised its taxes on cigarettes by $1 to $3.46 a pack — the highest rate in the country. With the backing of its governor, a former tobacco lobbyist, Mississippi in May imposed its first tax hike on smokers in more than two decades — up 50 cents to 68 cents a pack — and is already considering another increase.
For lawmakers scrounging to balance state budgets in a recession, tobacco taxes were one of th... |
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Philadelphia, PA, USA. Psychologists studying the cognitive mechanisms behind human friendship have determined that how you rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends rank you. The results are consistent with a new theory called the Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship, distinct from traditional explanations for human friendship that focused on wealth, popularity or similarity.
The study, performed by cognitive psychologists Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban a... |
06-15-09
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