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Do men get attached more easily than women? And if so, does that represent a sea change in gender behaviors? (more)

Living at a higher altitude may be a risk factor for suicide, a recent study in the journal High Altitude Medicine & Biology has found. (more)

A California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee who allegedly wrote a letter to a transgender woman and condemned her to hell has resigned, officials said Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is providing new estimates showing the U.S. population grew to somewhere between 306 million and 313 million over the last decade. (more)

Marriage is increasingly optional and could be on its way to obsolescence,according to a survey of more than 2,600 Americans that examines changing attitudes about relationships today. (more)

Prominent Jewish voices are speaking out against the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s (ADC) decision to honor former White House reporter and harsh critic of Israel, Helen Thomas, with their Mehdi Courage in Journalism award. (more)

Seven in 10 American voters feel at least somewhat confident that all votes will be counted accurately and that the right person will be declared the winner of an election, according to a poll released Monday. (more)

White women with college degrees are now just as likely to get married as their less-educated counterparts, ending what researchers once thought of as a “marriage penalty” for generations of young women who sought out higher education. (more)

In September, five teenage boys killed themselves after being physically or verbally (or both) assaulted for being gay. The suicides of Tyler Clementi, 18, Billy Lucas, 15, Asher Brown, 13, Justin Aaberg, 15, and Seth Walsh, 13, have brought national attention to the epidemic of bullying in American schools. (more)

From battling rumors to celebrating their 15-year age difference, here’s how the couple, who celebrate five years of marriage Sept. 24, make their marriage work: (more)

A “cult-like” group of 13 Salvadorans — including eight children — is missing in southern California after leaving behind notes indicating plans to commit mass suicide, authorities said. (more)

Enough with the doom and gloom about homeownership. (more)

As they prepare to leave the stage, even Boomers themselves concede that things have not exactly gone according to script. Generalizations about generations are often foolish. Who’s to say when one generation ends and the next one starts? And people are individuals: any characteristic intended to describe almost 80 million people will be inaccurate in most individual cases. (more)

HENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his time between San Jose and this booming coastal metropolis, running his $6 million a year computer chip-making company. (more)

At a news conference organized by self-identified gang members Thursday morning, several speakers complained that police and city officials do not respect them, and that the only way to curb violence is to provide jobs and improve their community. (more)

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said. (more)

In a grisly discovery, Mexican marines have found 72 bodies dumped at a ranch in a violence-torn stretch of northern Mexico, the navy announced. (more)

Ms. Andrews is a sportscaster on ESPN.  While I love sports and have always wanted to be a sportscaster, I am not.  Ms. Andrews was on Dancing with the Stars.  I can barely dance.  Ms. Andrews is a blonde.  I am a brunette.  So, do we have anything in common?  Unfortunately, yes. (more)

Former Vice President Al Gore did not commit acts of sexual harassment “appropriate for criminal prosecution,” according to office of the district attorney of Portland, Oregon, which has been investigating allegations that Gore made unwanted advances to a masseuse at a Portland hotel in 2006. (more)

Last week in Las Vegas, an ideological showdown occurred in the political backyard of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the left-wing Netroots Nation Convention and conservative RightOnline Conference squared off for the third year in a row. (more)