Word: helene
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...nation's consciousness, a Cosmopolitan survey found that "so many readers wrote negatively about the sexual revolution, expressing longings for vanished intimacy and the now elusive joys of romance and commitment, that we began to sense that there might be a sexual counterrevolution under way in America." Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, never one to miss a sexual trend, says, "Sex with commitment is absolutely delicious. Sex with your date for the evening is not so marvelous?too casual, too meaningless." The tide of conservative prose, in fact, has become too much for Playboy. An article in the December issue...
...Committee, designed to bring fresh ideas and test old ones, is part of Zapatero's bid to sustain the momentum of his government's efforts at reform. Made up of 14 world-renowned experts - including Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz; Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott; ex-Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, Nicolas Stern; and Maria Joao Rodrigues, an architect of the E.U.'s Lisbon Agenda - the council offered a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy...
...People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms for love," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and something of the Queen Mum of romance research. "They live for love, die for love, kill for love. It can be stronger than the drive to stay alive...
...They don't write each other love letters," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. "But animals can definitely feel romantic love." What's more, say Fisher and others, love exists not just among complex animals like higher mammals but also among those we think of as little more than a collection of behaviors. And indeed, from affectionate kisses to romantic getaways to monogamous relationships, the wild does appear to be a surprisingly cuddly place...
...online matchmakers seek to set themselves apart from local competitors is science. Match hired Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher to devise a compatibility test for a spin-off called Chemistry.com As Chemistry prepares to launch abroad, Fisher is confident that the test--56 questions that place users in four temperament categories--is applicable to any culture (see box, left). The societal trends that drive online matchmaking in the U.S. apply in much of the world, after all: women going to work, young people migrating far from home and, perhaps most important, a newly pervasive insistence on love as an essential...