In Poverty and Strife, Women Test Limits

"More than 80 percent of Afghan women are illiterate. Women’s life expectancy is only 45 years, lower than that of men, mostly because of the very high rates of death during pregnancy. Forced marriage and under-age...

Manchester Catholic School Bans Cancer Vaccination

A Catholic school in Manchester, UK has banned their 12 and 13 year old female students from receiving immunization against cervical cancer at the high school, even though the NHS vaccination program has been approved by Britain's Catholic Education Service.  The vaccine...

UPDATE: What's the Latest News on GARDASIL?

Update:   Effective July 1, 2008, in a press release dated July 24, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, adding human papillomavirus to the required list of vaccinations required when...

10 dead after explosions at U.S. Embassy in Yemen

"A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards and four civilians, a security official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the embassy in the Yemeni capital of...

What Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New Media :: Symblogogy

"Jeff Moriarty, Intel’s Mobility Community Manager (center, left) leads a discussion on mobile internet devices and their form factor/function. Image Credit: IntelWhat Girls Want - The Form Factor Of New...

Chinese rapist teacher executed

A rapist teacher in China has been hanged after he was found to have raped and sexually harassing 39 girls. " China executed a school headmaster in north-west Gansu province for raping and sexually harassing 39 girls in the last 18 years. The teacher Luo Yanlin, 48...

The New England Journal of Medicine Questions Distributing HPV Vaccines

This article states that the New England Journal of Medicine has posted articles questioning the distribution of GARDASIL, manufactured by Merck & Co. Inc and Cervarix, manufactured by...

Girls Just Didgeridon't !!

And now from the sexist and politically incorrect corner......"Aboriginal leaders in Australia have called for a book teaching girls how to play the didgeridoo to be scrapped. The Australian version of the Daring...

Beach babes and cheerleaders at Olympic Beach Volleyball and Basketball

All these beautifull girls are in the International Beijing Dream Dance Cheer Squad. The Cheer Squad is a team of girls from a lot of different countries. With only two days to go for the start of the official start...

Hyperactive and Aggressive Girls Have Long Term Risks

A new study was just published which documents that girls who have hyperactivity and aggression in childhood are much more likely to have significant problems in adult life.http://www.addadhdblog.com/hyperactive-and-aggressive-girls-have-long-term-risks/

Vietnam Releases Gary Glitter

Former pop star and convicted pedophile, Gary Glitter, has been released from jail in Vietnam after serving a three year sentence for molesting two Vietnamese girls.Glitter will now be deported to Thailand, however,...

Face (and body) of 'hooker cop'

The Sun unmask the alleged WPC prostitute known as “Kelly”, the woman cop who worked as a £100-an-hour hooker. " THIS is Vikki Thorne, the woman cop nicked for allegedly working as a £100-an-hour hooker. ...

Septuplets' mother has only seen them on TV

I want to know how the could afford fertility drugs on $8.00 per week."ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon. ...

Transgender Contestant to Compete on ANTM

It's still hard for me to think of ANTM as being culturally and socially progressive, given that the show's purpose is to focus on an incredibly narrow definition of 'female beauty', but this is still an interesting...

Nurses caring for four men with rare brain illness treat them to a night out ...

A rare and interesting treatment for four men with rare brain illness. "As special treats go, it was just what the doctor ordered.Nurses at a private care home arranged for four of their male residents, all suffering...

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