This paper provides new estimates of changing patterns of serial cohabitation, using data from the 1995 and 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Serial cohabitation is defined as having multiple premarital cohabiting relationships. Analyses indicate that rates of serial cohabitation increased by nearly 40 percent over the late 1990s and early 2000s, and rates were especially high among young ...

Imagine an athlete throwing a disc, as shown on the cover of this issue. We see him tensing his muscles but how can we know which brain structures control this powerful action? The ancient Greeks could only observe and measure limited, external aspects of this movement, such as the timing of muscle flexions and the distance the discus is thrown. Just as the ancient Greeks, until recently we had...

The movement for a national pharmacare plan in Canada is growing, but at the same time the multinational pharmaceutical companies and their supporters are critical of such a move. The three major arguments that they make are that all that is needed is to “fill in the gaps,” ie, cover those who currently are uninsured or underinsured, that private drug plans are superior to public ones because t...