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... Study: Love Is Like Cocaine, Codeine By David KnowlesOct 13th 2010 – 6:26PM (Oct. 13) -- Over the centuries, countless poets and songwriters have compared the power of romantic love to the transformative effects of any number of therapeutic or recreational drugs. According to a new study, such writerly claims are not the stuff of fiction. In fact, love is akin to a pain killer, like codeine,... Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud By Carl FranzenOct 8th 2010 – 6:45PM (Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess...}

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Tragic Romance Eclipses 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Flight

Apr 24th 2011 – 11:30AM
Handout / AP

Handout / AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Looking back on the horror of that Saturday in January, this seems miraculous today: that Mark Kelly would indeed command the next-to-last space shuttle flight and that his wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, would be here in Florida watching. Yet that is what is expected to happen...

Topless Feminists Protest 'Win a Wife' Competition

By Matthew HallMar 4th 2011 – 4:35PM
AFP / Getty Images

AFP / Getty Images

A feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine and meet women. Nine women...

Twitter: Might as Well Call Valentine's Day 'Lame Hallmark Day'

By Torie BoschFeb 14th 2011 – 10:52AM

Love is in the air ... or not. Twitter is filling up with people who think Valentine's Day is just a lame Hallmark holiday. Stephen Colbert sounded the alarm last night. .bbpBox36802330766606340 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/39408843/twitterbkgrnd.jpg) #1A1B1F;padding:20px;}...

Study: Love Is Like Cocaine, Codeine

By David KnowlesOct 13th 2010 – 6:26PM

(Oct. 13) -- Over the centuries, countless poets and songwriters have compared the power of romantic love to the transformative effects of any number of therapeutic or recreational drugs. According to a new study, such writerly claims are not the stuff of fiction. In fact, love is akin to a pain killer, like codeine,...

Karen Owen's Duke Sex Thesis and PowerPoint as a Word Cloud

By Carl FranzenOct 8th 2010 – 6:45PM

(Oct. 8) -- Karen Owen, a former Duke University student, has quickly made a name for herself as both a pioneering figure of female sexual empowerment and the latest social-media pariah, all thanks to a mock 40-plus-page "thesis" she drafted for two close friends in which she "scientifically" documented the sexual prowess...

Background on romance

Romance films are love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage.

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