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...oops" theory. Among insects, same-sex sexual behavior is usually a case of mistaken identity. Male fruit flies, for instance, may romance other males because they lack a gene that enables them to distinguish between sexes. Even more surprising, male toads can't tell the difference between girl toads and boy toads, so 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...

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

...Similarly, Laurel J. Gabard-Durnam '10, another proctor, said "it doesn't seem like a great idea" to close OSAPR while keeping the Wellness Center open, especially given that, based on past years, a case of sexual assault is almost "guaranteed" to happen during the summer...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sexual Assault Office To Close for July | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...ironic," she said. "The case they gave me interviewing for the proctoring job was a rape case, and the answer was to do this and do that, and to talk to these people. But now those offices aren't even going to be open...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sexual Assault Office To Close for July | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...supporters were planning to hold their own rally in Tehran on Saturday. The Supreme Leader's sermon may now contain important clues as to how the basij and other security forces will respond. The opposition candidate's supporters inside the regime are also working hard to reinforce his case for reversing last Friday's announcement. The combination of pressure on the streets and in the corridors of power has already compelled Khamenei to reverse his initial proclamations and order a recount of the vote. (Read "The Man Who Could Beat Ahmadinejad: Mousavi Talks to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Supreme Leader: Ahmadinejad Won the Election | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...Pradesh and Bihar. The agencies pay families in advance for their children and then place them at jobs in cities, tying the child to the agency until he or she pays off the money given to his family. The June court statement issued out of Delhi was over the case of local couple who had been accused by police of hiring and ill-treating a 15-year-old girl working as their maid. The couple pleaded that they did not know the girl was a minor, and that the placement agency told them that she was over 18. The case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Under Pressure to Do More to Stop Child Labor | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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