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After his book The Republican War on Science became a best seller in 2005, journalist Chris Mooney decided to find out what the disconnect is between scientists and regular people. In Unscientific America Mooney and marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum join together to explain how that disconnect is putting the future of our country in danger. TIME caught Mooney during his book tour and discussed what scientists and teachers can do to raise the level of understanding...
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's June 24 statement that his yearlong affair with an Argentine woman began "innocently" has drawn both sympathy and scorn. Can you really have good intentions and still wind up in bed with someone other than your spouse? Mira Kirshenbaum, a couples' counselor and the author of When Good People Have Affairs, says the answer is yes. She talked to TIME about why people cheat and how a broken marriage can be repaired. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...years of counseling couples, Mira Kirshenbaum has discerned 17 reasons that people have extramarital affairs. In a near majority of couples, one partner will cheat on the other at some point. In her new book, When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships (St. Martin's), Kirshenbaum explains the reasons and offers some helpful - and sometimes surprising - advice on how to manage the consequences. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Kirshenbaum at her office in Boston...
...Mira Kirshenbaum: People say, "I never meant for this to happen." They're being honest when they say that. Typically, they're in a committed relationship, but they aren't perfectly happy. No one who was perfectly happy in their primary relationship gets into a second one. They're a lot unhappy, or maybe just a little. Maybe they have no plans to cheat. And then the other person somehow floats onto their radar screen. The image that I have is like someone who has been wandering around with a couple of empty wine glasses who suddenly meets someone with...
...factory workers and those in the beleaguered tech industry who are taking their lumps. Steve Doppelt, 36, is an advertising creative director in New York City. With his employer, Publicis Groupe, in the throes of a major shake-up, Doppelt last month left to take a similar job at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners--for 10% less pay. O.K., he isn't starving. The new job pays more than $200,000 a year, and Doppelt is regarded as a rising star. But he no longer has a secretary, and he is working in a cubicle instead of an office and is investing...