Sat, 31 Jul 2010
(Photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)Gender war, yet to be won
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(Photo: AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill)Hamas should not add to Palestinian suffering
A Palestinian man prepares water pipes for customers at a cafe in Gaza City, Sunday, July 18, 2010....Full Story

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Lack of teen driving restrictions in Pa. decried
Comments SCRANTON, Pa. (Map, News) - It's the leading cause of death for teenagers across the U.S., but when they turn 16 it's time to drive no matter what. But sometimes the privilege turns tragic. | Reminders dot the northeast Pennsylvania landscape, where makeshift r...Full Story
Ad men today are wrong on body size
Christina Hendricks, as seen in Mad Men, was held up as an alternative to the skinny aesthetic by equalities minister Lynne Featherstone. Photograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMC | Pity those who are rubbishing the equalities minister Lynne Featherstone's efforts to influence th...Full Story
Open Letter to Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 11:48 pm | Opinion: Richard Charnin | An Open Letter to Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com | July 30, 2010 | Dear Mark, | On July 4 you wrote about the Daily Kos/ Research 2000 controversy at . You stated that “pollsters and social scientists...Full Story
Say it loud: “I’m single and proud”
A good marriage has many amazing benefits. Studies clearly indicate that married partners are healthier and live longer. They are more productive and richer. | They have lesser depression and express higher levels of happiness than singles. The main reason God made male...Full Story
Women really do prefer macho men
| Washington, July 31 (ANI): A new study has shown that women are attracted to macho men and see modesty as a sign of evolutionary weakness.  | Modesty in males is, in fact, a big turn off for both women and men alike, according to the research.  | Corinne A. ...Full Story
Not for the Faint of Heart
| IF YOU like your fashion chicly understated and subtly elegant, Korean fashion will absolutely freak you out. Exaggerated, starkly colorful and styled to an inch of its life, it's all about 'the cult of cute and shock.' | The basic formula seems to be wear every brand...Full Story
To those who have kept our past alive
  | B.C. Day is when we celebrate who we are, and since that's not possible without knowing where we came from, here's tribute to a few of the people who have recently helped us remember the drama and sweep of our provincial history. | First up is a little-known CBC Ra...Full Story
The '70s: Bill and David
  | Bill Houghton and David Myers met at an "encounter group" in 1972, although Houghton likes to call it a fairy circle. | It was a casual meeting, a group of gay men that gathered weekly to socialize and work through the feelings around the complicated process called...Full Story
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Pressel Shoots Course-Record 65 at Royal Birkdale
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Sat 31 Jul 2010
Dear Abby: Obsession with grandson is damaging their marriage
Philadelphia Daily News | By Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: Our daughter gave birth to an adorable little boy three years ago. | We love "Connor" dearly, but my husband is obsessed with him. | He wants our grandson at our house every weekend from the time we are done workin...
Pioneer Retiring
Ohio | The only time Akron firefighter Brenda Chapman thought about quitting was her first day of training. | Chapman, who was 35 and married with two young children, felt overwhelmed as she looked at the three-inch binder and six-inch stack of handouts d...
Changing mindsets
China Daily |   |   | Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is in China to promote equal rights for women worldwide. Karyn Piechule reports | Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, spoke at the Bookworm, ...
Women think big for Oceania
Scoop Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:39 pm | Press Release: BPWNZ | Women think big for Oceania | This weekend sees women from the four corners of the Pacific meeting to discuss the issues facing them and to agree on actions they can take to address them. | The...
Stop saying sorry for our history: For too long our leaders have been crippled by ...
The Daily Mail   | Next year marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the most extraordinary events in our history, the Delhi Durbar of 1911. | In the Indian capital’s vast Coronation Park, more than half a million people watched as every prince, noblem...
Crime Wave Sweeps NBC's Fall Lineup In Undercovers, Chase, Outlaw & LOLA
E! Online | Fasten your gun holters, folks—or better yet, just shove 'em in your waistbands like the pros do—because NBC is doling out a slew of crime fightin', legal eagle goodness this fall. | And thanks to today's jampacked Press Tour in Beverly...
Girl, 13, Fights To Play Football In Henry County
WPXI PARIS, Tenn. -- | School-sanctioned football can only be played by boys in Henry County, but a middle-school girl and her mother want to change that. | Survey: Should girls be allowed to play football? | Thirteen-year-old Sara Torres' dream is to be ...
Needs of Women in Post-Quake Haiti
Scoop Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:02 pm | Press Release: United Nations | UN Ambassador Nicole Kidman Spotlights Needs of Women in Post-Quake Haiti | New York, Jul 30 2010 3:10PM Actress Nicole Kidman, wrapping up a visit to Haiti today in her role as United...
Discrimination for Indian sportswomen at all levels
The Times Of India Dronacharya, Indian mythology's greatest coach, banished an aspiring and brilliant low-caste archer from his camp lest his favourite student, Arjuna, be upstaged. Eklavya paid with his thumb for his audacity. | Today, Indian sportswomen are akin to t...
Letters: The limits of multiculturalism
The Independent | At a time when to express any view condemning the practices of non-Western religions means you are lumped in the same category as nationalist bigots, I welcomed Christina Patterson's article, "The limits of multiculturalism" (28 July). It was thoug...
Gender war, yet to be won
The Hindu | V.R. Krishna Iyer | The move to create a U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, named U.N. Women, is a major stride for humankind. | Whether you believe in god or not, every effect must have a cause. Out of nothing, nothing c...
'No political motive behind selecting beneficiaries for samathuvapuram'
The Hindu | M.Balaganessin | sharing a moment:Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the women self help group exhibition at the samathuvapuram in Pudukottai. | PUDUKOTTAI: The beneficiaries for the Periyar Memorial Samathuvapuram in the state are being identifi...
"More awareness needed to fight discrimination"
The Hindu | Special Correspondent | VELLORE: Caste system should not be encouraged as it kindles caste-based discrimination among people, P. Allan John, head of the Postgraduate Department of Social Work, Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, said. | He was speaki...
Book Suggests Torture by U.S. Was Widespread
Scoop Saturday, 31 July 2010, 12:26 pm | Article: Sherwood Ross | Book by an Innocent Victim Suggests Torture by U.S. Was Widespread | By | Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick gu...
University duathlon series starts
The Star | THE first leg of the Malakoff University Duathlon Series (MUDS) 2010 kicked off at Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) last week with 230 athletes chasing for incentives worth a total of RM25,000. | Sponsored by Malakoff Corporation Berh...
Discover the natural wonders of Kamchatka
The Star | Only a select few experience the natural wonders of Kamchatka on Russia's eastern extremity. | Siberia is synonymous with exile, banishment beyond the pale. But beyond the Lena River, the Russians say, Siberia yields to the Russian Far East, a vast...
Why is Earl Spencer such a mean father?
The Daily Mail | Serial adulterer. Hypocrite. Bully. And a reputation, effortlessly acquired, for insensitivity bordering on the boorish. | Earl Spencer has been accused of many things down the years. Sometimes it has seemed as if the Spencer name could hardly sink...
The baby panda factory: Inside the extraordinary breeding centre where China is mass-producing infant pandas
The Daily Mail   | Masked and gowned to avoid passing on an infection, wildlife presenter Nigel Marven gazes in wonder at the tiny and rather odd- looking creature nestling helplessly inside a blanketed incubator. | Just a few inches long, with a furless, pink...
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