MEN AND WOMEN REACT DIFFERENTLY TO SEX BUT BOTH PREFER HAVING SOCKS ON
MEN AND WOMEN REACT DIFFERENTLY TO SEX BUT BOTH PREFER HAVING SOCKS ON (AT LEAST IN BRITAIN)
MARK HENDERSON, TIMES UK - Men and women experience sexual pleasure in strikingly different ways, the first brain scans taken during orgasm show. While male brains focus heavily on the physical stimulation involved in sexual contact, this is just one part of a much more complex picture for women, scientists in the Netherlands have found. The key to female arousal seems rather to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety: direct sensory input from the genitals plays a less critical role.
The scans show that during sexual activity the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity. This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain's emotion centres are effectively closed down to an almost trance-like state.
The scientists found the male brain harder to study during orgasm because of its shorter duration in men. The scans nevertheless revealed important differences. Men's emotion centres are also deactivated, although apparently less intensely than in women, and men also appear to concentrate more on the sensations transmitted from the genitals.
This suggests that for men the physical aspects of sex play a much more significant part in arousal than they do for women, for whom ambience, mood and relaxation are at least as important.
The experiments also revealed a surprising fact: both sexes found it easier to have an orgasm when they kept their socks on. Draughts in the scanning room left couples complaining of "literally cold feet", and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent, rather than 50 per cent, to reach a climax while being scanned.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1662498,00.html
THERE GOES THE EMPIRE. . .
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - In another display of China's growing economic clout, appliance maker Haier has entered the bidding to take over Maytag Corp., a proud but struggling icon of the US white goods industry. Maytag said late Monday that it had received a "preliminary non-binding proposal" worth 1.28 billion dollars in cash from Haier America Trading and two US buyout groups -- Bain Capital Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners IV. . . The Haier Group, headquartered in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, has focussed in the United States on selling lower-end microwaves, televisions and refrigerators out of budget store chains such as Wal-Mart. But acquiring Maytag would vault Haier America into the big league of US appliance makers. It already has a refrigerator plant in South Carolina and has opened a 15 million dollar headquarters in New York.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050621/ts_alt_afp/uschinacompany_050621201537
NY TIMES - A Chinese state-controlled oil company made a $18.5 billion unsolicited bid for Unocal today, igniting the first-ever takeover battle between corporations in China and the United States. The bold bid by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, may be a watershed in Chinese corporate behavior and demonstrates the increasing influence of Wall Street's bare-knuckled tactics in Asia. The offer also illustrates how crucial oil and gas resources are to China given its huge growth. CNOOC's bid, which comes two months after Unocal agreed to be sold to the American energy giant Chevron for $16.8 billion, is expected to provoke a fierce debate in Washington about the nation's trade policies with China and the role of the two governments in the growing trend of deal making between companies in both countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/business/worldbusiness/22WIRE-CNOOC.html?ei=5065&en=4d771759a933fc89&ex=1120104000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print\
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The American Taliban
HOUSE PASSES FLAG BURNING AMENDMENT
MIKE ALLEN WASHINGTON POST - A constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban flag burning passed the House yesterday, and congressional leaders said it has a strong chance to clear the Senate for the first time, sending it to the states for ratification. The House has passed the measure four times before, but it has always fallen short of the two-thirds vote needed in the Senate. But changes in the Senate's makeup shifted several votes to the bill's supporters, and a lobbyist who leads the opposition said the absence of one or two senators could mean that the measure would pass.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202155.html
MARK HENDERSON, TIMES UK - Men and women experience sexual pleasure in strikingly different ways, the first brain scans taken during orgasm show. While male brains focus heavily on the physical stimulation involved in sexual contact, this is just one part of a much more complex picture for women, scientists in the Netherlands have found. The key to female arousal seems rather to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety: direct sensory input from the genitals plays a less critical role.
The scans show that during sexual activity the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity. This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain's emotion centres are effectively closed down to an almost trance-like state.
The scientists found the male brain harder to study during orgasm because of its shorter duration in men. The scans nevertheless revealed important differences. Men's emotion centres are also deactivated, although apparently less intensely than in women, and men also appear to concentrate more on the sensations transmitted from the genitals.
This suggests that for men the physical aspects of sex play a much more significant part in arousal than they do for women, for whom ambience, mood and relaxation are at least as important.
The experiments also revealed a surprising fact: both sexes found it easier to have an orgasm when they kept their socks on. Draughts in the scanning room left couples complaining of "literally cold feet", and providing a pair of socks allowed 80 per cent, rather than 50 per cent, to reach a climax while being scanned.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1662498,00.html
THERE GOES THE EMPIRE. . .
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - In another display of China's growing economic clout, appliance maker Haier has entered the bidding to take over Maytag Corp., a proud but struggling icon of the US white goods industry. Maytag said late Monday that it had received a "preliminary non-binding proposal" worth 1.28 billion dollars in cash from Haier America Trading and two US buyout groups -- Bain Capital Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners IV. . . The Haier Group, headquartered in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, has focussed in the United States on selling lower-end microwaves, televisions and refrigerators out of budget store chains such as Wal-Mart. But acquiring Maytag would vault Haier America into the big league of US appliance makers. It already has a refrigerator plant in South Carolina and has opened a 15 million dollar headquarters in New York.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050621/ts_alt_afp/uschinacompany_050621201537
NY TIMES - A Chinese state-controlled oil company made a $18.5 billion unsolicited bid for Unocal today, igniting the first-ever takeover battle between corporations in China and the United States. The bold bid by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, may be a watershed in Chinese corporate behavior and demonstrates the increasing influence of Wall Street's bare-knuckled tactics in Asia. The offer also illustrates how crucial oil and gas resources are to China given its huge growth. CNOOC's bid, which comes two months after Unocal agreed to be sold to the American energy giant Chevron for $16.8 billion, is expected to provoke a fierce debate in Washington about the nation's trade policies with China and the role of the two governments in the growing trend of deal making between companies in both countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/business/worldbusiness/22WIRE-CNOOC.html?ei=5065&en=4d771759a933fc89&ex=1120104000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print\
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The American Taliban
HOUSE PASSES FLAG BURNING AMENDMENT
MIKE ALLEN WASHINGTON POST - A constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban flag burning passed the House yesterday, and congressional leaders said it has a strong chance to clear the Senate for the first time, sending it to the states for ratification. The House has passed the measure four times before, but it has always fallen short of the two-thirds vote needed in the Senate. But changes in the Senate's makeup shifted several votes to the bill's supporters, and a lobbyist who leads the opposition said the absence of one or two senators could mean that the measure would pass.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202155.html
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