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The Psychology Of Nakedness

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Jonah Lehrer - Nov. 30 (Special Report) - The human mind sees minds everywhere. Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at a stuffed animal and we endow it with a mood; I’m convinced Siri doesn’t like me. The point is that we are constantly translating our visual perceptions into a theory of mind, as we attempt to imagine the internal states of teddy bears, microchips and perfect strangers.

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Two studies show that drugs used to treat AIDS can be used to prevent HIV infection, too

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Brown - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Two new studies done in three African countries have shown for the first time that AIDS drugs taken daily can cut by more than half a person’s chance of becoming infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse.

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Strauss-Kahn Case Faces Test in Hearing

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, John Eligon - Jun. 30 (News Report) - The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.

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Anthony Weiner to resign

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:54:09 -0700

The Politico - By Maggie Haberman, Jennifer Epstein - Jun. 16 (News) - According to two sources, Weiner made up his mind to resign Wednesday night.

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Rick Santorum vs. the internet

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Concord Monitor - By Meg Heckman - Jun. 13 (News Report) - Shortly before launching his presidential bid Monday, Rick Santorum used Twitter to declare himself "ready to lead." In the days that followed, his Facebook page and campaign website were updated regularly, and hundreds of news outlets published stories online about his political ambitions. But for anyone who searched Google for "Santorum," those weren't the first items they saw.

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The Electoral Effect of Sex Scandals

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Jun. 12 (News Analysis) - One point frequently raised in the coverage of Representative Anthony D. Weiner is that David Vitter, the Lousiana Senator who in 2007 acknowledged that he was a longtime client of a Washington-based prostitution service, did not resign his seat. In fact, Mr. Vitter won re-election with 56.6 percent of the vote last November. It’s not clear, however, that Mr. Vitter paid no price at all with his constituents. Mr. Vitter’s 19-percentage point margin of victory over his Democratic opponent, Representative Charlie Melancon, was quite solid. But incumbent Republican senators in five other Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Carolina — won their elections by an average of 28 percentage points. (That’s what happens when you’re an incumbent in a very Republican part of the country in a very Republican year.) Perhaps a better comparison is to look at Mr. Vitter’s results against those of the four Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives who ran against Democratic opposition in Louisiana last year. These were the incumbents in the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Congressional Districts. (Louisiana’s Third Congressional District had no incumbent, while the Republican incumbents in the Fifth and Seventh Districts did not have a Democratic challenger.)

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Reid's advice to Weiner: "Call somebody else"

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Washington Post Staff - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Call somebody else.

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Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Scott Bronstein, Jessi Joseph - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for. Siblings: Gay brother killed himself decades after treatment to make him more masculine

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German insurance firm organised sex party for salesmen

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 02 (News) - One of the world's biggest insurance companies organised an orgy with prostitutes for its top salesmen at a Hungarian spa.

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U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% of Americans Are Gay or Lesbian

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lymari Morales - May. 28 (Poll) - U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that more than one in four are. Thirty percent put the figure at less than 15%.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns as head of IMF

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Schneider, Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 19 (News) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who is facing attempted rape charges in New York, announced his resignation late Wednesday night.

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French Watchdog Reins In Media Coverage of IMF Chief

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Varela, Gabriele Parussini - May. 17 (News) - France's broadcasting watchdog called on the country's television channels to be extremely cautious in showing footage of International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, a practice that contravenes French law.

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IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault, police tell AP

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 15 (News) - The head of the International Monetary Fund was removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon and was arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel earlier that day, police told the Associated Press.

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IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Edward Cody - May. 15 (News Report) - he head of the International Monetary Fund was charged early Sunday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel Saturday, a New York police spokesman said. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, who had been removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday, was questioned by the New York Police Department’s special victims office and arrested at 2:15 a.m. Sunday on charges of criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, a spokesman said.

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Controversial Ideas: Is Semen Nature's Antidepressant?

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Popular Science - By Jennifer Abbasi - May. 04 (News) - In the 2002 study, 293 college women filled out questionnaires about their sexual histories and took the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely used measure of depression symptoms. Women who always had unprotected sex had significantly lower levels of depression symptoms than those who usually or always used condoms, as well as those who abstained from sex. There was no significant difference in depression between condom users and abstainers, indicating that the physical act of sex itself wasn't the mood-boosting factor.

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Eric Holder accused of neglecting porn fight

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 17 (News) - To the list of social issues such as abortion once thought to be off the 2011 political agenda and now making a comeback, add a hot-button one from the days of Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese — pornography.

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Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By James C. McKinley Jr. - Mar. 09 (News Report) - The police investigation began shortly after Thanksgiving, when an elementary school student alerted a teacher to a lurid cellphone video that included one of her classmates.

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A sweeping survey of Americans' sexual behavior

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David Brown - Mar. 03 (News Report) - Among the findings of a sweeping federal government survey of American sexual behavior is one that may surprise those bewailing a permissive and eros-soaked popular culture: More than one-quarter of people interviewed in their late teens and early 20s had never had sex.

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Julian Assange attacks 'rubber-stamp' warrant as he loses extradition battle

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alexandra Topping, Esther Addley - Feb. 24 (News) - The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team has confirmed. If they lose he will be sent to Sweden in 10 days.

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CBS reporter Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Feb. 15 (News) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the U.S. broadcasting network said on Tuesday.

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Italy's Berlusconi indicted in prostitution probe

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Colleen Barry - Feb. 15 (News) - Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, who has dodged corruption trials and no-confidence votes with the skill of an Olympic athlete, faced a potentially fatal challenge to his power Tuesday when a judge ordered him to stand trial on prostitution and abuse of power charges.

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Police: 2nd disabled victim talking in L.A. sexual assault probe

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 15 (News) - The second of ten or more severely disabled victims whose sexual assaults were captured on videotape has come forward -- a development the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is touting as progress in their burgeoning probe of what they say were years-long assaults of defenseless women.

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Julian Assange granted bail over sexual crime allegations in Sweden

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:33:55 -0800

The Guardian - By Mark Tran - Dec. 14 (News) - A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of rape in Sweden.

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Assange Lawyers Prepare for U.S. Spying Indictment

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Jim Sciutto, Lee Ferran - Dec. 10 (News Report) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables, could soon be facing spying charges in the U.S. related to the Espionage Act, Assange's lawyer said today.

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Assange could face espionage trial in US

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Kim Sengupta - Dec. 08 (News) - Informal discussions have already taken place between US and Swedish officials over the possibility of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being delivered into American custody, according to diplomatic sources.

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