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Giordano is not the typical target audience for a mash note written in a yearbook. She's a professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the object of her most recent investigations is not the kind of thing you would think social scientists spend their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Love Lives of Teenage Boys | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

But how? The existing sociological literature wasn't much help. "There really hasn't been much on romantic relationships" among adolescents, Giordano says with a sigh. "And what there has been is really much more focused on sex itself." Moreover, the earlier work all seemed to be missing a crucial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Love Lives of Teenage Boys | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

That optimism helps explain why construction along the Gulf Coast of Mexico and both coasts of Florida continues to boom, even though hurricane season is an annual affair. Keep in mind that dense coastal construction is the main reason storms are causing more and more damage every year in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Don't Prepare for Disaster | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

You'll be relieved to know that it's possible to have a nonawkward conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld. In fact, she answers the door of her sunny apartment in downtown Philadelphia with actual aplomb. Sittenfeld has a dramatically curvy nose, dark straight hair and a loud, appealing laugh. Seriocomic misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prepping for Love | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

Well, why not? Their divorce was amicable (she has remarried and lives in London, he's in a committed relationship with a young actress) and they still kind of amuse each other. No great drama ensues from their coupling. And no flashing insights, either - although both notice that their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Split-Screen View of Love | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

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