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Posted by Raven on August 1st, 2007 / ADJUST TEXT SIZE 
SEASIDE, Oregon (CNN) — One day in 1957, when Jeff Daly was 6 years old, his little sister, Molly, disappeared.
Every night at dinner, he would ask his parents the same question, “Where’s Molly?”
Every night, he says, he received the same answer: “Stop asking about Molly.”
Decades later, Daly learned that his parents had sent Molly to a state institution nine days before her third birthday. Nearly 50 years later, Daly found his sister and made a documentary about his search.
“Since the movie, literally hundreds of people have come up to us and said, ‘I had a [relative] that I remember my family talking about that was sent away. Do you know how we can find out about that person?’” says Daly.
“Deter, not just respond, deter, or else I assure you we are going to suffer. The extent of which of course I do not know. I know what they are planning and I know what they want. I do not know if they are going to be capable of doing this tomorrow, the next day or a month from now. I know right now at this moment there is nothing that deters them.”
A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses of electric current, neuroscientists are reporting.
Interesting are the reasons women claim…the results were then presented to college aged kids and they were asked to give their reasons. Differences between the genders were highlighted:
“None of the gender differences are all that great,” Meston said. “Men were more likely to be opportunistic towards having sex, so if sex were there and available they would jump on it, somewhat more so than women. Women were more likely to have sex because they felt they needed to please their partner.”
Compare to this and think twice about the reasons women claimed:
Consider the “hook-up” scene on college campuses (and many high schools). Under the new dispensation, with Ludacris providing the soundtrack, young women are expected to have casual sex with no strings attached. Some girls consent to be “friends with benefits” for their male friends. Magazines like Cosmo and Seventeen, cultural bellwethers, advise young women to “keep your heart under wraps.” The very worst thing a woman can do, apparently, is to express a desire for some sort of emotional connection or (gasp) commitment from her sexual partner. That amounts to being “boring and clingy,” declare the magazines.