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BEST PROOF THAT GOD DOES LIVE IN CONNECTICUT Joe Lieberman, who invoked the Lord so often even the Anti-Defamation League asked him to stop, overwhelmingly retained his Senate seat there...
RUNNER-UP: The Nantucket Holiday Table by Susan Simon (Chronicle; $29.95) Have a glass of hot mulled wine with chestnuts. It's the holiday season, and the fire is blazing on Nantucket Island. Simon's recipes make it burn even brighter...
...have kids, sparking what some researchers are calling the "gay-by boom." A study at the London School of Economics Gender Institute found that gay fathers were more likely to play an active role in parenting than straight men and were less likely to be constrained by gender roles. Even gay men who had children while married were more involved parents than divorced straight men. Earlier studies came to similar conclusions about lesbian mothers...
...Wives who want to know whether their marriage will survive should perhaps check their stress hormones. According to a recent study that examined the effects of stress on marriage, rising stress-hormone levels can be a predictor of divorce. Women whose levels rose while they were discussing their relationships, even in a pleasant way, were twice as likely to get divorced as women whose hormones remained constant...
...upside of not knowing who won the election is that everyone has more time for equal-opportunity mocking. And while the Internet has yet to change the way we vote, it has facilitated the spread of good, sometimes even interactive satire...