Jim Spencer

Fear of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, apparently has spawned a new monogamy that doesn`t necessarily involve marriage. A survey conducted recently for Abbott Laboratories revealed that a majority of...

Time control, that`s what Americans want, the ability to eat, sleep, work and play when they darn well please. The Roper Organization, which measures public opinion, points to several ways...

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small,...

Men who with their wives are unable to have children most often cope by lavishing affection on a nonhuman object, a Northwestern University professor says. John Snarey monitored the reactions...

Midwestern female college students are the most sexually active in the country, a national survey by Glamour magazine found. One in 3 Midwestern college women has sex more than twice...

In some cultures people eat dirt, not because they have to but because they want to, Michigan State University geographer John Hunter told National Geographic magazine. While dirt eating, known...

A new class of employees--''knowledge workers''--is emerging in America. These people, the Personnel Journal reports, will have to be handled differently from earlier employees. Because they will be high-tech types,...

More than half of patients entering hospitals are malnourished and so risk medical complications and sometimes death, according to recent studies. Research by dietitians and doctors showed that as many...

Individuality is becoming the hallmark of American consumers, the Roper Organization reports. Anymore, the polling company says, it is hard to pigeonhole people into specific social groups. Instead, Americans are...

Here, culled from hundreds of magazines, newsletters, syndicated columns, wire services and news releases, are some bits and pieces too silly to expound upon but too weird to neglect: --...