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Orangutans can do it upside down, while rhinos carry on for up to an hour. Lions take pride in engaging up to 50 times in a 24-hour span and koalas mate for just 40 seconds three times per year...
...been wonderful and fantastic," she says. "I've since realized how wrong it was for me to avoid sharing my life with someone. I held back not only because of doubts about passing the gene on to my children but because it would be unfair for my mate to be burdened, financially and emotionally, with a Huntington's spouse. It would be too much of a sacrifice. But Herb is willing to accept whatever happens...
Abortion-rights groups pressed the court to take the case in time to hand down a decision before Election Day. They wanted pro-life candidates -- starting with the President -- to be called to account by voters. Since becoming Ronald Reagan's vice-presidential running mate in 1980, Bush has gingerly staked out a position consistent with his party's anti-choice plank. This year, with all five major Democratic hopefuls rushing to affirm their pro-choice credentials, Bush might try to move toward the center as November approaches. But in some recent state elections, candidates who tiptoed away from...
...rate soaring by almost five beats a minute. Says Buss: "That's the equivalent of drinking three cups of coffee at one time." Why is this so? Because, Buss explains, human egg fertilization occurs internally, and thus a man can never be certain that a child borne by his mate is really his. On the other hand, because women invest more time and energy in bearing and caring for children, they react more strongly to a threat of emotional infidelity. What women fear most is the loss of their mates' long-term commitment and support...
Nowadays Turner and Fonda are re-creating themselves as each other's soul mate. "The right woman at last," he wrote to her shortly after they began dating. "I feel it is destiny," says Fonda. And as a grand rebuke to his father's final repudiation of life, Turner plans to write about his own. He put a stop to an autobiography written with a collaborator five years ago because he felt the first draft made him sound like a rube and the second draft made him sound boring. Now, at last, Turner believes he will like the sound...