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Americans have a yen for affairs: Study
Today it is hard to comprehend the excitement it caused, but it was huge: 50 years ago, on January 31, Alfred Charles Kinsey published the first of his investigative reports on American sexual behaviour. His standard work -- sexual behaviour in the human male -- already gave some indication that women must be involved. When he published sexual behaviour in the human female six years later public outrage knew no limits.
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Castro, Pope discuss aches and pains
It was to be a historic first meeting on Cuban soil of the last revolutionary and the Vicar of Christ. But for a few moments, Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II were just two old men, talking of the aches and pains that come with age and making a joke of fame.
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White House has been the hotbed of amorous Presidents
Real or rumored, Presidential peccadilloes draw more media scrutiny than ever before, but history is rife with tales of sexual dalliance by occupants of the Oval Office. In the past, most such allegations were kept quiet until after the President in question had died. No American president has faced the intense glare trained on President Bill Clinton in the wake of his alleged sexual escapades.
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A dilemma is born in Germany
Germany's Roman Catholic Bishops may have a problem: The government wants them to continue abortion counselling. And the Vatican reportedly wants them to stop.
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