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Tragic Romance Eclipses 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Flight
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, would be here in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen Friday. Handout / AP Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, are shown in an undated file photo. Doctors have cleared the recovering congresswoman to attend her husband's shuttle launch on Friday. The Kelly-Giffords ordeal has been a national drama since ...
Topless Feminists Protest 'Win a Wife' Competition
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsA feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine and meet women. Nine women protested in wintry Kiev by going topless and holding aloft banners that claimed "Ukraine is not a brothel" and "Welcome to hell." "Femen warns the lucky winner of the New Zealand competition that he can expect an unhappy ending in Ukraine," activist Olexandra Shevchenko ...
Valentine's Day: Love 2.0
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyLove calls, like the wild birds It's another day A spring wind blew My list of things to do away -- "Spring Wind" by singer/songwriter Greg Brown We now know love is little more than a chemical imbalance. (Thanks a lot for the buzzkill, science.) Which explains the crazy behavior observed among those afflicted. People really do fall "madly" in love. Anthropologist Helen Fisher put it this way: There is no human culture on Earth that has been proven not to know the phenomenon of romantic love. Due to ethical concerns, much of what we know about love comes from animals. Researchers found a ...
Twitter: Might as Well Call Valentine's Day 'Lame Hallmark Day'
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsLove is in the air ... or not. Twitter is filling up with people who think Valentine's Day is just a lame Hallmark holiday. Stephen Colbert sounded the alarm last night. .bbpBox36802330766606340 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/39408843/twitterbkgrnd.jpg) #1A1B1F;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet ...
Study: Love Is Like Cocaine, Codeine
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- Over the centuries, countless poets and songwriters have compared the power of romantic love to the transformative effects of any number of therapeutic or recreational drugs. According to a new study, such writerly claims are not the stuff of fiction. In fact, love is akin to a pain killer, like codeine, researchers at Stanford University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook found. "Intense, passionate feelings of love can provide amazingly effective pain relieve, similar to painkillers or such illicit drugs as cocaine," said a press release for the study, which ...
Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess of 13 male partners and fellow Duke students, referring to them in her report as "subjects" (many of them Duke lacrosse players). Of course, this being the Internet era, Owen's thesis did not stay within her circle of friends: Having been forwarded to the Duke student body, ...
Dueling Toward Divorce: Study Links Couples' Fighting Styles to Breakups
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Are you a scrapper or a sweet talker? Do you avoid conflict or embrace it? A new, long-term study concludes that how you fight with your mate might offer valuable insight into your risk of divorce. Surge Desk has the run-down: The Data on Differing Dueling Tactics The study, published this week in the Journal of Marriage and Family, is one of the longest and most comprehensive research explorations of marital conflict to date. Using data on 373 couples compiled over 16 years, starting at the first year of marriage, study authors at the University of Michigan evaluated how ...
Where Single Ladies Are Scarce, Men Scramble to Put a Ring on It
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- Men don't need to really, really love it to put a ring on it. They just need to like it well enough and be spurred by nightmares of solitary life in an apartment reeking of cats and desolate loneliness. That's at least the case in selected urban areas, where single women are scarce and have more eligible bachelors to choose from in matters of relationships and wedding vows, according to a study published in the August issue of the Journal Evolutionary Psychology. Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist, tabulated an "operational sex ratio" for 50 metropolitan areas. In ...
What Happened to Romance in Movies?
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI want to weigh in on a topic Maureen Dowd raised in her New York Times op-ed column on Wednesday (or to be accurate, re-raised after Sam Wasson broached the topic with her in an e-mail). Dowd and Wasson, the clearly precocious 28-year-old writer whose best-selling book chronicles the making of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," despaired at the dearth of resonant romantic comedies at today's box offices and shared the sad lament that romance-wise, "There's nothing out there for grown-ups to see." The columnist re-prints her young correspondent's digital admission that most of his role-model romance ...
Bristol Palin-Levi Johnston Relationship Timeline
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- Last month, Sarah Palin's eldest daughter, Bristol, shocked the world (and her mom) by announcing her (re)engagement to ex-boyfriend and baby-daddy Levi Johnston on the cover of Us Weekly. Now, she's turned to another celeb tabloid to break the news that she's breaking it all off, again. As People reports today: In an emotional phone interview with PEOPLE, Palin spoke through tears about feeling heartbroken, humiliated and trapped – while Johnston acted cool. "There's been no remorse," she says, adding that she's seen him only once in the past three weeks. How did it all go ...
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