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...wide range of community-building benefits. How else to explain the fact that homosexual behavior occurs in more than 450 species? How else to explain kissing among bonobos, nuzzling among zebras, literal necking among male giraffes? How else to explain the fact that some sexually active animals seem to avoid reproduction quite deliberately, mating at times that are unlikely to produce young or picking partners that are unable to do so? From 80% to 95% of a species of sea lion rarely or never reproduce, though they continue to couple. And so of course do many of us, chasing...
...extension, sex--such a central part of the species software is that hedonism simply makes good Darwinian sense. It's not for nothing that hot stoves hurt and caresses feel nice, and we learn early on to distinguish between the two. "All creatures do things that feel good and avoid things that feel bad," says J. Gayle Beck, professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo. "The individuals who learn that best live the longest...
...studio session to record a CD, David Roth, 39, a Chicago-area sculptor turned singer-songwriter, was having trouble with the part-time bass player--his wife Heidi Meredith. Both had grown up in broken homes and hoped to avoid separation. But after more than a decade together, they had devolved into chronic arguers: how to make the bed, how to make music. "We were in this decaying orbit that was going to crash and burn," says Roth. Says Meredith, 39: "It was never a question of our not loving each other. We would just completely butt heads, and then...
...disease ended up causing severe inflammation of the brain. (One woman died several months after being vaccinated. Further study confirmed that her brain was inflamed, though some of her brain plaques, a symptom of Alzheimer's, seem to have shrunk.) Doctors are making progress toward finding ways to avoid the inflammation...
...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute changed its guidelines last year. What it used to call a "high normal" level--from 120/80 mm Hg to 139/89 mm Hg--is now considered prehypertensive. The move should prompt more people to lower their salt intake and exercise, both ways to avoid high blood pressure...