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...males will routinely embrace other males, although the subordinate ones are equipped with a call that quickly results in the dominant male releasing. In other species, the "straight" males get tricked by other wily straight males who dress in animal drag: male goodeid fish, for instance, sometimes have a black spot that resembles a spot that females get when pregnant. Dominant males then court them rather than fight with them. While the dominant guys are busy courting the subordinate, ladylike fish, the latter are able to "sneak copulations with females," as Bailey and Zuk write. I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Thomas Hollister Singleton wants a car. Specifically, a Dodge Challenger, black. And while it will be several years before Singleton will be able to get behind the wheel of a vehicle - he's only 14 years old - he is hoping to start saving up with the money he makes this summer working in his first job: helping to clean and maintain classrooms at his school in Strayhorn, Miss. And what would he be doing otherwise? "Honestly, I'd probably just be hanging out, maybe at the beach," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stimulus Sparks a Summer Jobs' Comeback | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Goforth, Sherri • regret is expressed by, not for sending out a racist email - a collage of images of the 44 presidents with Obama represented by a pair of white eyes against a black background - but merely for sending it out to the wrong list of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Spirits are good. It's after 4 in the afternoon, cell phones are completely down but everyone already knows where to go and what to do. Today we are green and we are black, black for those who have died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Among the Protesters in Tehran | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...What's even worse, this Open was supposed to have significant recession-fighting qualities. The location is advantageous - Bethpage Black is just a par-5 from New York City, a ravenous sports market whose economy hasn't completely crashed. The fans would be loud and ready to spend. Also, terrific story lines were going to amp up even more interest - Tiger Woods, who got through six holes on Thursday and was one over par, trying to repeat as U.S. Open champ; New York fan favorite Phil Mickelson playing in his first major since his wife was stricken with breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf Rage: First Recession, Now Rain at the U.S. Open | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

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