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...sure, those values are conservative and often fundamentalist. His followers espouse the Islamization of Iraqi society and would limit the long-held freedoms of women in Iraq. But Sistani may yet rewrite the book on political Islam in Iraq, Iran and much of the Islamic world. --By HASSAN FATTAH, editor of the Iraqi weekly Iraq Today
Drina L. Chan ’06 has become notorious for her dirty little fetish, which has sent many a hook-up into feverish personal deliberations over the merit of remaining faithful to widely held mores of personal hygiene versus realizing a long-held childhood fantasy ingrained in those days of heightened scatological awareness prior to potty training. Things have gotten really down and dirty, however, since Chan got together with Chris Bryson ’05, whose sexual repertoire was similarly shaped by Psychology...
...study by a Harvard medical researcher is challenging the long-held belief that female mammals are born with all the eggs they will produce in their lives...
Embarrassment needled me in the head like a virtual noogie. Wireless computing, it dawned on me, was no longer emerging. It's here. The gap between what I cover as a journalist and how I live widens daily. Despite a long-held fascination with the shine and beep of all things high tech, I'm becoming more of a fumbling Luddite. And that's a bummer, because any digiratus will tell you that not only does technology change quickly but the pace at which it changes is accelerating. According to this logic, in 10 years we'll be buying newer...
...prime reproductive ages, their ovaries make two times more testosterone than estrogen." A few days before ovulation, triggered by surging levels of testosterone--along with other hormones including progesterone and estrogen--sexual desire peaks, according to new research by Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago that dispels a long-held theory that fertility precedes desire...