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Authors of the new study theorize that the actual effects of testosterone, a hormone produced by the male testes and female ovaries that is linked to brain development and sexual behavior, may be somewhat neutral in nature, leading to what researchers call "status-seeking behavior." Under certain conditions, status-seeking could lead to increased aggression - in prison populations, for instance, where studies have shown that inmates in high-security prisons have elevated levels of the hormone - when fighting seems the only way to the top. (Read "Successful Traders: The Testosterone Effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testosterone: Not Always an Aggression Booster | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

...extent. She's perfectly happy in her own company. She says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's been married and divorced twice. She also says, "I keep my guard up along with my underpants." So she's careful about sexual connections with guys because to her it represents a hazard. She likes working for herself. She's persistent. She's curious. She's not above breaking and entering if she thinks she can do it without getting caught. Loves to lie - oh, she's so good at that, and kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Your new book deals with false-memory syndrome. How did you become interested in that? There have been many instances in cases where people have been accused of sexual molestation, sexual abuse, satanic rituals with children, where it is purely the artifact of a therapist who decides that you have this problem and little by little elicits memories from you that are totally false. They are planted; they are conjured out of smoke ... Eventually - sometimes, if you're lucky - these people will recant, but the torture they put their families through is incredible because there are some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Fresh off her successful prosecution in the murder trial of 19-year-old British nanny Louise Woodward, was elected Middlesex district attorney in 1998. (Woodward's conviction would be reduced to involuntary manslaughter.) Oversaw the prosecution of Catholic priests charged with child sexual abuse and the establishment of the adult-sexual-assault division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...remain vague. U.S. Weekly released a voicemail allegedly left by Tiger on Los Angeles cocktail waitress Jeremy Grubbs’s phone asking the woman to erase her name from his phone, and the 24-year-old has told the press that she was involved in a 31-month sexual affair with Woods...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tiger Trap | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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