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Pujols, Cardinals whip Mariners 9-3

Albert Pujols took one off the noggin for his team on a perfect day at the plate and stand-in cleanup hitter Ryan Ludwick homered to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Seattle Mariners 9-3 on Monday night.

Pujols singled three times and walked twice as the Cardinals bounced back after totaling 19 runs during a 1-5 West Coast swing that dropped them out of the NL Central lead. Plus, he stayed in the game after a throw to the plate glanced off his helmet ear flap in the fifth.

Ludwick finished with four RBIs and Adam Wainwright (9-4) pitched into the eighth after a shaky start. Matt Holliday also was a success batting second for the first time in his career, …

Wooing Young Workers

Joseph P. Nolt thinks the insurance industry has struggled to recruit young workers because the field hasn't communicated its job opportunities well and because many people view the trade negatively.

"You see how many TV programs (there are) involving lawyers and doctors? Do you ever see a program glamorizing insurance?" asked Nolt, chairman of the board at Murray Risk Management and Insurance. "...If you want to be a selfstarter, if you like meeting people, if you enjoy helping people, if you want to make your own hours, if you want to be an entrepreneur - all of those opportunities are available in insurance."

Lancaster-based Murray traditionally has not recruited many …

Court gives sole custody of Britney Spears' sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline

Britney Spears was derailed yet again in her struggle to get her life back on track, losing custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline after being hauled off to a hospital for observation by paramedics and police.

A court commissioner Friday gave sole physical and legal custody of the former couple's two little boys to Federline and suspended the troubled pop star's visitation rights.

Spears was hauled away from her home to a hospital by paramedics a day before, after police had to intervene when she refused to return the children to Federline after a court-monitored visit.

Commissioner Scott Gordon ordered another hearing to be held …

Listen up, NYC cabbies! Phone use might be out

New Yorkers and tourists who have ever been frustrated by taxi drivers talking on the phone might get their full attention soon.

The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission plans Friday to propose prohibiting cab drivers from using an array of new communications technologies. That includes hands-free Bluetooth devices and smart phones.

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3 deputies lead police chief list

Mayor Washington soon will launch a nationwide search for asuccessor to Police Supt. Fred Rice, but insiders say the choice willcome down to three present top officials.

The three are First Deputy Supt. John J. Jemilo and DeputySuperintendents Rudolph E. Nimocks and Matt L. Rodriguez.

Such a lineup offers the mayor experienced police executives butalso hands him a touchy political decision: Jemilo is white, Nimocksis black and Rodriguez is Hispanic.

Four years ago, Rice became Chicago's first black policesuperintendent.

Rice, 60, whose retirement plans were revealed in this columnApril 12, has not yet announced a firm quitting date. Last …

Army to Rebid Halliburton Unit's Contract

WASHINGTON - The Army will rebid the multibillion-dollar contract under which a Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been providing services to troops around the world after years of complaints over how the deal has worked in Iraq.

Critics of the contract said the move was overdue and that hundreds of millions of dollars had probably been wasted.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR, also known as Kellogg Brown & Root, provides food, water, shelter, laundry service and other logistical support for troops under a 2001 contract that has been extended several times.

Halliburton is a Texas-based oil services conglomerate once led by Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush …

Turkey military denies involvement in alleged plot

Turkey's military has rejected a newspaper report of a military conspiracy against the Islamic-oriented government.

Turkish newspaper Taraf last week printed a document, allegedly drafted by a military colonel, outlining a plan to besmirch Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party and discredit supporters of an …

Field's Cinderella Exhibit Enchants Young at Heart

Why are there so many smiling faces lighting up State Street inChicago's Loop? Because those faces belong to the children andadults who have just enjoyed the enchanting, traditional story ofCinderella. The windows of Marshall Field's State Street storereflect the wonderful story of the poor little girl and her PrinceCharming.

To enjoy it properly, start at the window that is under theclock at the corner of State and Randolph. The first window to beviewed is on the Randolph Street side. Then proceed to State Streetand slowly observe each beautiful window in proper sequence. Thereare 36 windows that tell each nuance of the tale that has been handeddown by word of mouth …

No tricks, big treat: a White House Halloween

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.

Local students between 6 and 14 years old, along with children from military families, were invited to celebrate Halloween on the North Lawn.

The president and first lady, along with Mrs. Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, spent about 30 minutes passing out goodie bags. Obama wished each child a happy Halloween as he distributed the treats, pausing occasionally for hugs or to comment on costumes.

Later, the military families continued the celebration inside the White House.

The first couple joked to …

Comrie lifts Oilers past Wild

Mike Comrie scored in regulation and added the shootout winner in the Edmonton Oilers' 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Friday night.

Comrie slipped a backhander through Niklas Backstrom's pads in the sixth round of the tiebreaker, and Jeff Deslauriers deflected Guillaume Latendresse's shot over the net with his glove to finish off the Wild.

Latendresse scored in regulation for Minnesota.

The Oilers, last in the NHL, snapped a three-game losing streak.

Comrie opened the scoring at 6:50 of the first …

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Why does Joe dislike Jackie? Buy the book

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno says his long-standingfeud with Jackie Sherrill started when the former Pitt and Texas A&Mcoach threatened Paterno and insulted his wife in a late-night phonecall.

In a book titled Paterno: By the Book, to be published nextmonth, Paterno said he had problems with underclassmen on his 1988team - the first losing Penn State team in 50 years - and that he hasa personal disdain for the negative reporting of some sportswriters.

Paterno's dislike for Sherrill stemmed from a 1978 incident -two years after Pitt won the national championship - in which Pittand Penn State were recruiting the same New Jersey high schoollinebacker.

Paterno wrote that when he visited the player's Paulsboro, N.J.,home and found him not there, he assumed Sherrill was baby-sittinghim. However, Sherrill was not with the player and assumed thatPaterno was.

After midnight, Paterno received a call from his wife, Sue, whosaid Sherrill had phoned and demanded to know where Paterno wasstaying. According to Mrs. Paterno, Sherrill called Paterno aderogatory name and threatened to find him and injure him. She addedthat Sherrill called her several names before hanging up.

Shortly after that, Paterno made his now-famous remark that hewasn't about to quit coaching "and leave college football to thelikes of Jackie Sherrill and Barry Switzer."

In the book, to be published Sept. 29 by Random House, Paternosaid he later apologized to Switzer because of his fondness for theOklahoma coach, but "I didn't give a damn about what Sherrill felt."

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New survey on sex in US, biggest since 1994

NEW YORK (AP) — The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers.

That's just a tiny sampling of the data being unveiled Monday in what the researchers say is the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans' sexual behavior since 1994.

Filling 130 pages of a special issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the study offers detailed findings on how often Americans have sex, with whom, and how they respond. In all, 5,865 people, ranging in age from 14 to 94, participated in the survey.

The lead researchers, from Indiana University's Center for Sexual Health Promotion, said the study fills a void that has grown since the last comparable endeavor — the National Health and Social Life Survey — was published 16 years ago. Major changes since then include the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, the types of sex education available to young people, the advent of same-sex marriage, and the emergence of the Internet as a tool for social interaction.

Dr. Dennis Fortenberry, a pediatrics professor who was lead author of the study's section about teen sex, said the overall findings of such a huge survey should provide reassurance to Americans who are curious about how their sex lives compare with others.

"Unless, like al-Qaida, you feel there's something abnormal about the American people, what these data say is, 'This is normal — everything in there is normal.'"

The researchers said they were struck by the variety of ways in which the subjects engaged in sex — 41 different combinations of sexual acts were tallied, encompassing vaginal and anal intercourse, oral sex, and partnered masturbation.

Men are more likely to experience orgasm when vaginal intercourse is involved, while women are more likely to reach orgasm when they engage in variety of acts, including oral sex, said researcher Debra Herbenick, lead author of the section about women's sex lives.

She noted there was a gap in perceptions — 85 percent of the men said their latest sexual partner had an orgasm, while only 64 percent of the women reported having an orgasm in their most recent sexual event.

One-third of women experienced genital pain during their most recent sex, compared to 5 percent of men, said Herbenick, citing this as an area warranting further study.

The study, which began taking shape in 2007, was funded by Church & Dwight Co., the manufacturer of Trojan condoms. Questions about condom usage figured prominently in the study, but the researchers — during a teleconference — insisted the integrity of their findings was not affected by the corporate tie.

Among the findings was a high rate of condom usage among 14- to 17-year-olds. Of the surveyed boys who had sexual intercourse, 79 percent reported using a condom on the most recent occasion, compared to 25 percent for all the men in the survey.

However, the sample for that particular question involved only 57 teens in the 14-to-17 age range. That's far smaller than the thousands involved in latest federal Youth Risk Behavior Survey last year which calculated condom use among sexually active high school students at 61 percent

Fortenberry nonetheless found the new findings encouraging.

"There's been a major shift among young people in the role condoms have in their sexual lives," he said. "Condoms have become normative."

Another intriguing finding — rates of condom usage among black and Hispanic men were significantly higher than for whites. The researchers said this suggested that HIV-AIDS awareness programs were now making headway in those communities, which have relatively high rates of the disease.

The lowest condom usage rates were for men over 50 — and the researchers said this was worrisome. Although men in that age group are more likely to be married than males in their teens and 20s, other surveys have shown 50s-and-over to be far more open to multiple sexual partners than in the past, raising the risk for disease.

Other notable findings:

—While about 7 percent of adult women and 8 percent of men identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the proportion of individuals who have had same-gender sex at some point in their lives is higher. For example, 15 percent of the men aged 50-59 said they had received oral sex from another man at some point.

—Among adolescent boys, only about 2 percent of the 14-year-olds — but 40 percent of the 17-year-olds — said they had engaged in sexual intercourse in the past year.

The survey was conducted from March through May of 2009, with the assistance of Knowledge Networks, among a nationally representative sample of adolescents and adults. Once people were selected to participate, they were interviewed online; participants without Internet access were provided it for free.

The researchers said the 1994 survey was compiled through in-person interviews, while the new method — collecting data over the Internet — may help make respondents more comfortable about discussing sexual behaviors.

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, noted that the new study came more than 60 years after Alfred Kinsey — also based at Indiana University — published his groundbreaking report, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male."

"Just like then, these papers contain material that is avant garde and often considered off-limits," Goldstein wrote in a forward to the study. "At a time when we can have nudity on HBO but cannot use the names of our genitals on the evening news, there remains a need to continue research on sexual health."

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http://www.nationalsexstudy.indiana.edu