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Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, took conservatives to task for offering legislation to promote marriage, in his July 29, 2003 New York Times op-ed, "Wedded to Poverty." Tanner may well be correct in claiming that conservative do-gooders are going astray in promoting marriage through the "welfare reauthorization bill passed by the House and awaiting action by the Senate: a proposal to spend nearly $2 billion over the next six years to encourage people to marry." Countless governmental and nongovernmental undertakings have foundered on the fallacy bearing the Latin name post hoc, ergo...

Asking for oral sex, especially when it is not offered, doesn't exactly seem like a good way to represent a University, but that is exactly what junior Blake Overly said Iowa State men's basketball coach Larry Eustachy did at a late January party in Overly's apartment.'A girl asked if he wanted a beer, and he said, 'Yeah, I'll take a b***job.'The party was held after the bars closed in downtown Columbia, Missouri on the night of Jan. 21 after Iowa State had lost 64-59 to Missouri in the Hearnes Center.'Larry came up here and started partying and at first it...

<p>California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who will likely run for governor in 2006, plans to be married today to a former Santa Ana school board member active in Democratic politics who is pregnant with his child.</p> <p>The Northern California wedding between Lockyer, 61, and Nadia Maria Davis, 31, an Orange County attorney, has been a tightly kept secret in a Capitol buzzing with political gossip.</p>

It was a beautiful June evening in Madison, Connecticut, an upscale seaside town. An unseasonably cold wind coming off the Long Island Sound had stopped. So had the rain that fell earlier in the week. This was the kind of evening you go out in. Anne Bascom thought so. The two-year-old went for a walk, down a dead-end street and in between houses to the nearby beach. A family friend says she saw Anne leaving shortly before 8:00 but didn’t think anything of it. Anne never wanders off. Some of the other Bascom kids - there are seven of them...

GENEVA — She sold photos. He tracked inventory. She loved his merchandise-tallying eyes. He thought she was picture perfect at the counter. That was 10 weeks ago. Yesterday, among 93,000 square feet of goods, Garrett Covert and Kari Wright, both 23, pledged their love for life before a semi-circle of family, co-workers and customers. “We’re very happy,” the couple said, smiling and kissing afterward in an employee lounge. A pair of Wal-Mart workers once renewed wedding vows here. But yesterday marked the store’s first official marriage. It was a company event on many counts. Wright’s mother, Gail, works in clothing....

Oddly Enough - Reuters Sex 149 Times a Year Is UK Average? Mon Nov 25,11:02 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! LONDON (Reuters) - Britons have sex more often than Americans and Spaniards, but are outdone between the sheets by the French, Dutch, Danes and Canadians, a survey by condom manufacturer Durex found Monday. The Durex Global Sex survey revealed that Britons make love an average of 149 times a year, pipped only by couples in France (167), the Netherlands (158), Denmark (152) and Canada (150). Those taking their love-making at a more relaxed pace included...

There's not a single bridal shop on Chicago's West Side. Indeed, as an institution, marriage has virtually disappeared from inner-city communities. In the 10 years since I wrote There Are No Children Here, which follows two young boys growing up in public housing on the West Side, I've been to half a dozen funerals in the neighborhood and only one wedding -- and that marriage has since ended in divorce. In some impoverished urban communities, as few as one out of 10 children are born to married parents. For the families I got to know in Chicago while writing that...

"Married Men Are Less Likely To Die Than Singles" Let me get this straight.... If you're married, you're less likely to die than if you're single? Is marriage the route to immortality or something? Did I miss a meeting? Actually, the story states, "Marriage is so good for men's health that married men are less likely to die in a given period that single guys." Oh, I think I'm beginning to get it.... "are less likely to die in a given period".... Huh? Does that mean men are more likely to die after their wives reach menopause? I'm really confused!...