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...million to 20 million Americans have genital herpes, and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 new cases appear each year. The one-night stand is now so risky that a couple interested in casual sex must get to know each other well enough to pop the herpes question???and believe the answer. Many sexologists think herpes is the chief reason for the new conservatism. Others consider it more of a symbol or the capping of a trend that began before herpes came to full public attention. Says California Sexologist Harvey Caplan: "In a funny sort of way, some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...Lincoln Own Slaves? gamely and even-handedly answers the titular question???no?and many, many others (readers are supplied with Lincoln's worst photograph and least-funny joke), but it doesn't shed much light on the question of the Lincoln compulsion. For that you might turn to This Republic of Suffering (Knopf; 346 pages), Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust's new wrenching study of how the mass deaths of the Civil War changed America. At the time, Lincoln's death was fused with Jesus' in the popular imagination?people needed Lincoln to be more than human in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lincoln Compulsion | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

Thomas Plante asks the question??roughly 20 times a year, and if it doesn't work, he's ready with the follow-up. "You say, 'Well, tell me what your dating history is like,'" explains the Santa Clara University psychology professor. "And usually they'll hand it to you on a silver platter. If they don't, you say, 'Well, do you find yourself more interested in involvement with women or with men?' If they say, 'I've never dated,' you say, 'Well, when you walk down the street, who catches your eye?" And so, gently but relentlessly, Plante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screening The Priests | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

There are only a couple of questions. Either: a) "What will a computer do for me?"; b) "Do I really need a personal computer?"; or c)?the beginner's question???"What are these things anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Updated Book off Jobs | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...admiration for Carter the man, there hovered in the background those dark clouds of doubt about his leadership that were reflected in the question by CBS's Lesley Stahl, "How do you think you got into this big mess?" He never seemed to understand why this was the real question???and the implications of his failure to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Assessing a Presidency | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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