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New study suggests children inherit homosexuality from parents' DNA

Megan Boehnke The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 12:52pm

Children may inherit homosexuality from their parents, according to a study published Tuesday by scientists at the University of Tennessee.

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In an Aug. 3, 2011 photo, a box of satirical breath mints poking fun at President Obama is seen at the office of University of Tennessee Vice Chancellor of Communication Margie Nichols in Knoxville, Tenn. The mints were pulled from the shelves at the University of Tennessee bookstore after local legislator Joe Armstrong told store officials he was offended by the mints. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Saul Young)

Mints poking fun at Obama pulled from university bookstore

Megan Boehnke The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 2:46pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Breath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks.

UT officials pulled the mints poking fun at Obama from store shelves after state Rep. Joe Armstrong, a Democrat, visited the bookstore and told the director he found the satirical mints offensive.

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Study finds more sex helps in marriages with neurotic partner

Megan Boehnke, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, December 30, 2010 - 12:41pm

Frequent sex could ease tensions in relationships where at least one partner is neurotic, a new study suggests.

Surveys of 72 newlywed couples in Ohio over the first four years of marriage showed that those who experience neuroticism or whose spouse is neurotic reported higher marital satisfaction when they had sex more often.

Neuroticism, according to the study published online in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science in October, is a personality trait that includes frequent negative feelings.

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