(DAILY TELEGRAPH) 17 April 2008:

New research shows that the stereotype of the confused little old lady isn’t all that accurate: it should be the confused little old man. The study found that more men than women in old age had cognitive impairment (memory loss and so on) and that it started at an earlier age as well.

Further proof that men are in fact the weaker sex perhaps. Although it has to be admitted that no wife would be surprised at the result: husbands can never remember anything, can they?

(SCIENCE DAILY) 3 April 2008:

New research shows that when women get married, they  do–on average–an extra seven hours a week of housework more than they did when they were single, while men do one hour less.

However, this trend appears to be changing. If we look at married women in their 20s (and thus those raised in more enlightened times) while housework was still not equally shared, the hours spent went up for both men and women upon marriage.

So to a large extent it’s a problem that’s already solved, we just need to wait for the older generations to pass on.

(GLASCOW DAILY RECORD) 16 February 2008:

It might not come as a great surprise to learn that men are known to check out women at random on the street. It might be a surprise to non-men to find out quite how much time is devoted to the sport though. On average eleven women a day for two minutes each: over a lifetime that’s a full year.

Women eye up men too, but much less: two and half months in a lifetime.

The pollsters did come up with one real surprise though: half of the men surveyed said that it was fine to do the eyeing up when out with wife or girlfriend: now that’s just not polite.

(NEW YORK TIMES) 12 December 2007:

Smarmy, smug, and alleged wife killer Drew Peterson attempted to get donations for his “legal bills” via a Web site that has since been taken down. Surely bleeding hearts can come up with a better cause…like helping convicted wife killer Scott Peterson (oddly enough, no relation) get smokes and porn in prison?

(DES MOINES REGISTER) 20 September 2007

A man was arrested after he hit his wife in the back of the head with an onion. James Izzolena, 54, of Des Moines, had been drinking, became upset with his wife, Nicole Izzolena, 27, and threw an onion at her during an argument on Wednesday, police said.

Police said James Izzolena admitted throwing the onion at his wife but said he didn’t mean to hit her.

His wife told police it made her head hurt.

(THE BOSTON GLOBE) 12 August 2007:

In today’s increasingly busy world there’s a common complaint going up: there’s just not enough time! With the rise of the two income family, who is going to be the person who keeps the household running?

Pointing to the fact that women make up 50.6% of managers, but only 15.6% of top level executives, suspicion is falling on the idea that women have to do both: run a career and take care of the household. That men often do have such (whether she is stay at home or also working) might be the reason why they succeed at the highest level.

Thus the thought that what many women actually want is a wife.

(PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) 24 July 2007:

There are some who insist that the male mid-life crisis does not exist, others who are sure it is simply intimations of nearing mortality talking: Researchers Miller and Kanazawa however, are both certain that it does exist and it is not in fact caused by men at all.

Rather, the desire to buy a red sports car, lose weight and cover up the bald patch comes from the aging of the man’s wife. As she goes through the menopause and thus becomes infertile there is the impetus for the man to chase the younger women: those who are still fertile.

Fortunately these days there is not much to worry about: younger women can afford their own sports cars and are mostly unimpressed with girdles and comb overs.

(CNN.COM) 16 May 2007:

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Asian-American woman age 15-24. That is the highest suicide rate among women of any ethnicity or race for that age group.  Assistant professor of Asian-American studies at California State University Fullerton Eliza Noh began researching this trend after losing a sister to suicide.  In the Asian-American culture, asserts Noh, there is a “model minority” pressure to be the perfect student, daughter, wife, and mother. This is one of the top contributors to the higher suicide rate among this group.

(REUTERS) 2 March 2007:

Isn’t that what mom always says to a naughty child? With grown men other techniques might need to be used.  Fred Gregor, in Berlin, Germany, was protesting against his 15 month jail sentence for fraud and demanding a new trial, by squatting in a tiny homemade cubicle atop a TV antena 75 feet up in the air.  His wife at first supported him but after ten days decided enough was enough and that Gregor should come down. The former stripper and mother of their five children convinced him to return to earth by sending up to him, in his lunchbox, a topless photo of herself.

(REUTERS) 20 September 2006:

In a move sure to delight self conscious males everywhere, doctors in China have reported the partial success of the world’s first penis transplant. Nerves and blood vessels all joined up and the man, whose original was severly damaged in an accident, was able to urinate normally for the first time in 8 months. Nor was there any sign of the organ being rejected.

However, only partial success for after two weeks surgeons had to remove it again following the extreme psychological distress of both the man and his wife. Exact reasons are unknown but perhaps, given the extremely intimate uses to which it might be put, not knowing exactly where it had been was a problem?