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UF study: Women increasingly pick husbands’ surnames over their own

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — What’s in a name – or two names? Quite a bit, says a University of Florida professor, whose research finds that a growing number of brides are returning to tradition when taking a man’s hand in marriage, assuming his name instead of keeping their own as a symbol of independent identity.

Filed under Family, Gender, Research on Wednesday, November 16, 2005.

Archaeologists: Ancient brewery tended by elite, female brewmasters

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If the ancient mountaintop city in southern Peru was the vanished Wari empire’s unique imperial showplace, the brewery was its piece de resistance.

Filed under Gender, Natural History, Research on Monday, November 14, 2005.