Word: frequentative
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...Iowans saw the gleam of electability in Kerry, Southerners might see it in John Edwards, who has been a frequent presence in South Carolina. He exudes the closest thing to Clintonian charisma on the Democratic roster and was born in the state. He grew up in a poor North Carolina mill town, so he can speak with authenticity when he goes to places like Orangeburg, where unemployment is 15%. Like Dean, he says blacks have the same interests as all other voters--only he says it with a Southern accent. "Race, equality and civil rights," says Edwards. "This...
Perhaps Showtime hopes the sex, explicit and frequent, will help. Some advance buzz has even hailed the show's well-coiffed, model-perfect cast for breaking lesbian stereotypes of buzz cuts and Birkenstocks. But anyone who thinks that improbably beautiful women who get it on under flattering light are not lesbian stereotypes has not watched much straight-male porn...
...contrast, requires flesh-on-flesh cuddling. What's more, a mother's metabolism ensures that this contact occurs more or less all day long. Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis, points out that human beings produce very dilute breast milk, which necessitates frequent nursing sessions and therefore provides loads of opportunities for mother and child to touch...
...bodies of boys and girls are able to conceive, nature is very clear that it wants these mere babies to go about making babies of their own, and so it makes the impulse almost irresistible. There's a reason for the fabled sexual stamina of teens: the more frequent the pairings, the more likely the offspring. What's more, the pleasure of sex can often lead to long-term bonding, something else nature wants if babies and children--with their long years of dependency--are going to survive into adulthood...
...twice a week or more often experienced half as many heart attacks after 10 years as men who had intercourse less than once a month. The trial, however, did not include a parallel group of randomly chosen control subjects, the scientific gold standard. So it's unclear whether frequent intercourse was responsible for the lower rate of heart attacks or whether, for example, the men who were sexually active were healthier or less prone to heart disease to begin with...