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Evangelicals Retain Neocon Credentials

While it's been widely reported that support for Israel is strong among American Evangelicals, a new study conducted by three political scientists at East Carolina University suggests that support extends to a generally hawkish stance on the Mideast -- even as the news from there turned sour.

Dog Bites Man: Was It Pedigree or Poverty?

Dog bite is a rare mishap for most people but your chances of being bitten start to go up if you live in a lower income neighborhood and own a pedigree pooch. If you also happen to be a boy under age 10 and it's the middle of summer ... watch out!

Pills or Practice? Boosting Brain Power

Our Tom Jacobs wrote in March about plagiarism and fraud among writers and academics, referring to it as a "doping scandal" in the world of letters. The term was meant to be a metaphor, but as it turns out, there may be greater use of performance-enhancing drugs going on in intellectual circles than one might expect.

Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Even educated young adults do it, apparently - "it" being the trading of goods for sex, or what the research literature delicately refers to as "exchanges in reproductively relevant currencies."