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...worldwide each year, though sales have plateaued in the past decade - policy experts blame "prevention fatigue," while condom makers (the ones targeting men, anyway) have responded by becoming increasingly creative, or perhaps ridiculous. What began as a simple choice between lubricated, ribbed or custom-fit now includes flavored, novelty (Star Wars prophylactic, anyone?) and glow-in-the-dark. One can even purchase condom accessories like the $28 Condo-M, a plastic-and-aluminum bedside container. (Think Pez dispenser for grownups.) Even the presidential campaign spawned Barack Obama- and John McCain-themed condoms with corresponding slogans ("Who says experience is necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Safe Sex | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...most of his life, Henry Molaison, 82, was known as H.M., an amnesiac whose inability to form new memories made him the star of several groundbreaking studies of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

SENTENCED Thirteen years after being acquitted of murdering his wife, former football star O.J. Simpson, 61, was given a sentence of up to 33 years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel. He will not be eligible for parole until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...neighborhood populated heavily by minorities, Hartigan—a Virginia native and a star football player at Brown who nearly played with the New York Jets—sticks...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘No One Leaves’ Keeping People Put | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Although I only lived in the great city of Houston, Texas for the first four years of my life, I still feel the need to highlight the strengths of the Lone Star State as we near the end of a particularly unpopular presidency. 5. Austin, Texas. Live music capital of the world... 4. “All my Exes Live in Texas” by George Strait 3. Sandra Cisneros and all of the other Chicano authors 2. Cacti! 1. BEVO. He’s a longhorn bull. He hangs out at University of Texas games. Once he charged...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Things About Texas | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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