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With sociologist David Popenoe, she co-directs The National Marriage Project, a research and public education program based at Rutgers University. Whitehead grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. In American social history from the University of Chicago. The thirty-something woman of today is three times more likely to be single than her counterpart of the 1970s. For [...]

When he hit 60 home runs in 1927, he hit more home runs than any of the other (7) american league teams. He won six rbi crowns to bonds one. Ruth also led his league in total bases seven times, while bonds achieved that feat only once. Ruths lifetime batting average was .342 vs barrys [...]

After the tulips, little star-shaped flowers the prior owners presumably also planted come out. Unlike crocuses, however, which issue cup-shaped flowers just after winter’s snows (and sometimes even poke up thru the snow), these plants produce little white flowers after even the tulips have died back. As we have a son living in the USA [...]

We have been receiving many emails and phone calls expressing love and prayers in behalf of Doug. I wasnt able to check out all of Dougs blogs until now. I just posted my first comment and it was much easier than I thought! We thought we had lost Doug three times. Thank you for your [...]

Of course, studies conducted in just about any other decade would have found the same thing. But the latest crop of 20-somethings arent swilling as much Bud Light as previous generations did. Generation Y (another marketing term for the same group) spends 47 percent of its booze budget on beer, and, by volume, 83 percent [...]

For the second time in five months, a 23-year-old California woman has been arrested after she allegedly crashed her car while driving under the influence at the exact same spot north of Lake Tahoe. And to top it off, Truckee Police say that in both cases, her blood alcohol content was more than three times [...]

Located west of the International Date Line, Guam is three times the size of Washington, D.C. John McCain acquired the necessary delegate votes to get his party’s nomination; all of the nine Guam Republican delegates, unsurprisingly, were assigned to him. Guam will send five superdelegates, with one vote each, to the convention. Guam’s DNC Committee [...]

Ive been using this (varied with a twenty minute audio cassette also by Leslie- great for traveling) three times a week for two years. I would highly recommend this tape to anyone that is just starting to exercise or has never exercised. Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call [...]

Be beautiful. As I type this, Boggs has swung three times as a major leaguer; the three swings have resulted in two singles and a home run. This is very difficult skill/knowledge for hitters to acquire. So many minor leaguers and major leaguers a-l-m-o-s-t succeed, and only fall short because they never acquire this skill [...]

On The Road by Jack Kerouac is a book Ive read three times and listened to once in audio form. Its rare I like manually reading something over having to read to me, but On The Road is one of those cases. When I saw this today I thought it was really awesome. I wonder [...]

He then says, “This is the question. Simon says this is why he loves live TV, it was all so dramatic, the beginning. Ryan asks Brooke what happened and she says she lost the lyric, the first time its happened to her on the show. David Archuleta forgot the words three times in one song, [...]

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. I set records that will never be equaled. That bothered my dad at the time because he didnt have [...]

She slammed her car head first into Bullock and James’ SUV. Her speech was extremely slurred as she spoke.” Hussey [Bullock's driver] “was trying to avoid her car, but it was in his lane,” Mackey said yesterday. During sobriety tests, Gatchell nearly fell over three times while trying to walk nine steps and turn, the [...]

But the dealmaking is briefly halted for Kobes, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient who has served in Iraq three times. The game of odds, hosted by Howie Mandel, calls for a contestant to predict the amount of cash contained in any of 26 sealed briefcases. The top prize for guessing correctly is $1 [...]