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Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime
What parent hasn’t used candy to pacify a cranky child or head off a brewing tantrum? When reasoning, threats and time-outs fail, a sugary treat often does the trick.
Making Time For A Baby
Listen to a successful woman discuss her failure to bear a child, and the grief comes in layers of bitterness and regret.
Education: Nature v. Nurture
Few years ago a psychologist named Harold Manville Skeels, a professor at University of Iowa, was assigned by the State to advise the State orphanage.
The Battle Over Gay Teens
In May, David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser–there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna-with-mango-chutney hors d’oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters.
Royal Wedding Walking Tour: In Search of Kate and Wills
On the winding route from friendship to marriage, Prince William and Kate Middleton have transformed mere buildings into monuments of their love.
Spanking Debate: Do Spanked Kids Have Lower IQs?
The debate over spanking goes back many years, but the essential question often evades discussion: Does spanking actually work? In the short term, yes.
Lab Report: Health, Science and Medicine
MENTAL HEALTH Pot and Schizophrenia: A Dangerous Mix A mind is a terrible thing to scramble.
Wrong Purchase? Why Shoppers Can’t Stop Buying
When you splurge on designer shoes for your spouse this holiday season, you should double-check that they go with the rest of her wardrobe. Because if they don’t, says a new study, she likely won’t send you back to the store to return them
Greg Mortenson Scandal: One University’s Bitter Cup of Tea
Every year, the University of Louisville gives out five $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards. Most of the recipients aren’t celebrities — mainly academics outstanding in their fields of expertise