House Rejects Bid to Block Sex Research: According to Toomey's office, the grants and their estimated cost next year are:

- Mood arousal and sexual risk taking, $237,000, conducted by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

- Sexual habits of older men, $69,000, at New England Research Institutes Inc. in Watertown, Mass.

- Drug use and HIV-related behavior by San Francisco's Asian prostitutes/masseuses, $641,000, University of California-San Francisco's Department of Medicine.

- American Indian and Alaskan Native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and "two-spirited individuals," $500,000, University of Washington in Seattle.