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That's one reason gays and lesbians end relationships sooner than heterosexuals. In a 2004 paper, psychology professor Lawrence Kurdek of Wright State University in Ohio reported that over a 12-year period, 21% of gay and lesbian couples broke up; only 14% of married straight couples did. Too many gay relationships are pulled by the crosscurrents of childhood pain, adult expectation and gay-community pathologies like meth addiction. Kurdek has also found that members of gay and lesbian couples are significantly more self-conscious than straight married people, "perhaps due to their stigmatized status," he writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Gay Relationships Different? | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...death incidence between themselves and unmarried men by 25%; married women gained absolutely zero ground over their unmarried peers. Why this subtle somatic sexism? "This is a gross generalization, but women are really the mental- and physical-health housekeepers for a marriage," says psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of the Ohio State University College of Medicine. "They are often the ones who prod men to go to a doctor or to eat more healthily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marry Me | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Data also show that the stress of a bad marriage can undo much of the good that comes with a happy one. In a series of studies, Kiecolt-Glaser and her husband, immunologist Ronald Glaser, also of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, found that "negative marital interactions," such as arguments, name-calling and nonverbal cues like eye-rolling lead to increases in cortisol and decreases in immune function and even wound-healing. The effects were observed in both sexes, but particularly strongly in women. The eye-rolling studies go even deeper than that, with related research conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marry Me | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...point to having a president you can’t make fun of easily. John Edwards (Senator from North Carolina) PRO: Dimples that rival Shirley Temple’s. CON: Used to be a malpractice attorney, adding to the stresses of already-harried pre-meds. Dennis Kucinich (Representative from Ohio) PRO: Eco-friendly shower-heads for everyone! CON: Eco-friendly shower-heads for everyone! Mike Gravel (Senator from Alaska) PRO: Tells teens to do drugs. CON: Will not get elected. Republicans Mitt Romney (Governor of Massachusetts) PRO: If all Mormons are like Napolean Dynamite, we’re on board...

Author: By Kirsten E.M. Slungaard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Everyone Smells Like Geritol. Except Barack Obama; Barack Obama Smells Like Oprah. | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...contributions live on in the 1.2 million patients who have undergone treatment based on his research and in the more than 1,000 laboratories worldwide that continue his investigations, according to Children’s Hospital Boston. Folkman, the son of a rabbi, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. He was accepted to Harvard Medical School at 19 after graduating cum laude from Ohio State University and coauthoring his first academic paper. While still at the Medical School, he developed one of the first internal pacemakers to help keep damaged hearts beating. He graduated magna cum laude...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folkman, 74, Broke Biomedical Ground | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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