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...working toward her first college diploma. She says she's attended 15 different schools over the course of her life, but this is the first time she's set her sights on completing a program. "I hope to make it before I'm 90," Meshekow says, noting that her slow pace--two courses a semester--might delay her graduation...
...mastering even so basic an idea can be a slow process, often too slow when survival is on the line. And so nature provides us with a head start. Before we have a chance to practice our first little Moro grab--before we leave the womb, in fact--our pleasure engine is humming. "Little boys can have erections from the day they're born, sometimes even in utero," says Marrow. "Both sexes get pleasure from touching themselves without having to be taught...
This finding illustrates the promise and the perplexity of research into the biology of human sexuality, where mind, body and experience are endlessly intermingled. People find themselves turned on in obvious situations--slow-dancing together, seeing someone with a sexy body, finding a member of the opposite or same gender to be excitingly sharp-witted or funny. But carnal longings strike at surprising times too--in the wake of a victory by your favorite team (for men, anyway) or at times of fear or even after a tragedy, like the death of a parent...
Tight defense from the Lafayette women’s basketball team may have forced Harvard co-captain Hana Peljto to change her jersey, but it sure couldn’t slow her down...
...wealth-sharing package after decades of civil war (see story), North Korea has opened up its nuclear facilities to an outside delegation, and Libya wants to be everybody's friend. Will the peace last? Sure - about as long as most New Year's resolutions do. - By Jim Ledbetter Slow Justice BELGIUM A jury at a Liège court found six men guilty of complicity in the 1991 shooting murder of socialist Deputy Prime Minister André Cools. The court handed...