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For many people who hold down 9-to-5 jobs, the world of daytime television might as well be the dark side of the moon. Their TV consumption halts when they turn off Katie Couric or one of the goofy local morning shows, and likely doesn't resume until they plop in front of the set to digest the evening news or "Seinfeld" reruns.
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Augusta Supporters Seek Protest Permits 2-22-03
Two groups have asked for permits to demonstrate against Martha Burk, the chairwoman of the women's organization that has led the fight against Augusta National's all-male membership policy.
Burk and the National Council of Women's Organizations has indicated that they might organize a demonstration protest during the Masters tournament in April.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bankruptcy hits women more often 2-22-03
A record 1.6 million Americans nationwide, and 12,884 in Greater Cincinnati, filed for bankruptcy in 2002.
An admittedly small and vastly unscientific survey of November filings in the Southern District of Ohio Bankruptcy Court found that almost two-thirds of the 685 filers were women.
A much broader and more scientific study conducted two years ago by SMR Research found the gap smaller - but still significant.
NYTimes
General Asks Air Force to Build Trust at Academy 2-21-03
With more women emerging to say they were raped or sexually assaulted at the Air Force Academy, the commandant of cadets conceded today that a survey last month showed that a fifth of cadets, and a much higher proportion of those who are women, lacked confidence in academy programs to help victims of sexual attacks.
The general commented as Senator Wayne Allard, Republican of Colorado, said as many as 10 women had contacted his office — at least six in the last few days — to say they had been raped or sexually assaulted while attending the academy. Mr. Allard said that about a third of the women remained enrolled and that the rest had left as a result of their experiences and disillusionment with a system that they say did not protect them.
Harvard Crimson
Groups Question Augusta Members 2-20-03
Two members of the Harvard Corporation—treasurer D. Ronald Daniel and Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58—as well as former Senior Fellow Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, belong to the club, which has come under fire in the last year for refusing to admit women.
The petition, led by the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), is a response to efforts by the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) to gain support at Harvard for its campaign to diversify Augusta. NCWO sent two letters in November to Daniel, Houghton and Stone, asking them to explain how membership in Augusta can be reconciled with the University’s nondiscrimination policy.
Christian Science Monitor
One child, four parents 2-19-03
More and more often, parents in stepfamilies are seeing the advantages of working together and allowing their kids to 'be kids,' says Margorie Engel, president of the Stepfamily Association of America, in Lincoln, Neb.
"People are taking courses before they get divorced," she says. "Once they understand that certain behaviors tear the kids up inside, they think twice and change their behavior."
Washington Times
Men mull money when 'hooking up' 2-19-03
A new study reveals that a man is more likely to live with a woman outside marriage if he is financially unstable.
The study, titled "Cohabiting and Marriage During Young Men's Career Development Process," will appear in the February edition of the journal Demography.
It suggests that the reason more Americans in recent decades have been living together out of wedlock is that men are considering their employment stability and future economic prospects before deciding whether to marry.
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Arab News
Wanted: Married Men for Single Saudi Women 2-23-03
Despite the variety of marriages that exist in the Kingdom — from weekend to secret marriages — hundreds of thousands of young women remain single. And many of them are now prepared to marry men who are already married and have children.
Al-Hafof, 27, who is beautiful and has a forceful personality, says she would not mind marrying a married man, provided she would be his last wife.
Gulf News
Abuse of women rises alarmingly - report 2-22-03
More than 500 women were gang-raped in Pakistan in 2002, showing an alarming rise in their victimisation in the country where rights groups have long been urging successive government for tougher laws to punish such offenders, a leading rights group said in a report.
"Rape is often used as a means of revenge not only in public places, but also in homes in front of male family members," said Madadgaar, or helper, Pakistan's first help-line and protection service for children and women.
London Times
Government urges under-16s to experiment with oral sex 2-21-03
A GOVERNMENT-backed course is encouraging pupils under 16 to experiment with oral sex, as part of a drive to cut rates of teenage pregnancy.
It aims to reduce promiscuity by encouraging pupils to discover “levels of intimacy”, including oral sex, instead of full sexual intercourse.
More than 100,000 children are now taking the course at one in every thirty secondary schools. It forms part of efforts to tackle Britain’s teenage pregnancy rate, which is the highest in Western Europe.
Financial services group Bibby Financial suggested a new nickname for women trying to juggle work and home life - 'DIALLs', or Do It Alls.
The group said its survey suggested most women under the age of 45 spend 15 hours on housework a week, compared to the average of between two and five hours for men.
Perhaps more worrying for career women, was the suggestion that only one in ten men think women make a better boss.
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NYTimes
The Other Baby Experiment 2-22-03
By Rebecca L. Skloot
Since the 1970's, fertility clinics have created almost a million children through experimental technologies. They've used untested and unregulated procedures to inject sperm into eggs, to grow embryos on cells from cows and monkeys, even to combine eggs from two mothers and create children with DNA from three parents. The public, it seems, has remained blissfully unaware. Little wonder, since reproductive medicine has enabled thousands of infertile couples to have babies. Indeed, it's been a blessing for them. But that blessing has also been a powerful distraction from a medical safety issue.
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BBC News
Coffee pregnancy warning 2-21-03
Compared with women who did not drink any coffee, women who drank four to seven cups a day had an 80% increased risk of stillbirth, and women who drank eight or more cups a day a 300% increased risk.
However, there was no association between coffee consumption and death in the first year of life.
Christian Science Monitor
Perils of diet pills within a body-conscious society 2-21-03
Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, yet they live in a culture that glorifies thinness. From actors to models, athletes to adolescents, millions of Americans are preoccupied with making their bodies slim and fit.
Enter the fad diets, the quick weight-loss fasts, and the multibillion-dollar diet-supplement industry. Some promise body perfection, a diet miracle in a pill that can slim you down in a matter of weeks.
BBC News
HRT 'risk' for diabetic women 2-21-03
Researchers from Hvidovre University Hospital studied 13,084 women over the age of 45, less than half of whom had taken HRT.
They found that women with diabetes who took HRT were up to three times more likely to die early compared to those without the condition.
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NYTimes
Color Therapy 2-23-03
You can never have too much color in your life or in your closet. (And really, aren't they the same?) Black-and-white is great if you want to look elegant, glamorous and chic. But if you want to look hot, you need color. Imagine a couple waltzing in black-and-white. Easy. Imagine them doing the samba. Migraine.
LATimes
A sharp eye for design 2-20-03
Throughout the 1960s and '70s, (Sail) Bass was responsible for creating corporate logos for clients such as AT&T and United Airlines, enduring imagery still used by each company today. But it's his prolific film work that has most influenced contemporary graphic design. Hired by directors such as Otto Preminger, William Wyler and Alfred Hitchcock to create title sequences and promotional graphics, Bass produced a wonderfully distinct iconography built from basic block fonts and bold illustrations.
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NYTimes
London's Rebels, Pausing to shop 2-23-03
. . . English designers may have shed their rebel image and grown up. But, by an irony that few would have imagined a decade ago, they've become irrelevant and sappy. "Elspeth Gibson-nice dresses," said Ed Burstell, the general manager of Henri Bendel, with a shrug that said, "Well, O.K., but who needs that?" That's not why you spend several thousand dollars — for the plane fare, the tab at Claridge's, if you're a big-time buyer — to go to London.
"You go to London because it's supposed to be a little eccentric," Mr. Burstell said. "I had expected to see more original thought."
Washington Post
Showing True Brit 2-21-03
The arresting images of glamour-puss models on a runway only hint at the significance of this city's Fashion Week, which ended today. Most of the designers who put their fall 2003 collections on the runway here do not have familiar names. and unless one scours captions in British Vogue or spend a great deal of time reading labels in Barneys New York or Henri Bendel, there is no reason why these designers should ring a bell.
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In the last several weeks, as preparations for the war against Iraq have heated up, it has begun to sink in that this will be a different conflict from what we have seen before -- that there may, in fact, be two fronts, one far away on the ground in the Middle East, the other right here at home. For the first time in history, it seems plausible that an enemy might mount a sustained attack on the United States, using weapons of terrorism. The term ''soft targets,'' which refers to everyday places like offices, shopping malls, restaurants and hotels, is now casually dropped into conversation, the way military planners talk about ''collateral damage.''
"Boredom doesn't get a lot of press," says Century City psychologist and attorney Rex Julian Beaber, "but it is profoundly destructive."
Curiously, boredom seems to be a modern ailment. The word didn't even exist in the English language until after 1750, says Patricia M. Spacks, author of "Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind" (University of Chicago Press, 1995). "If people felt bored before the late 18th century, they didn't know it," she writes.
Washington Times
Red Cross plan has 5-step preparedness 2-21-03
Together We Prepare campaign calls on families, neighborhoods, schools and communities to make preparations before emergencies.
The Red Cross recommends the following "five simple steps": make a plan, build a kit, get trained, volunteer and give blood. They advise individuals to "identify potential disaster scenarios and practice what to do if evacuation is needed."
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NYTimes
3 See College Suit as a Way to Show They Belonged 2-23-03
Like tens of thousands of applicants to colleges and graduate schools each year, the three — Jennifer Gratz, Patrick Hamacher and Barbara Grutter — received rejection letters in the 1990's from the institution that was their first choice.
But unlike so many others who have had their hearts broken by an admissions committee, these three vented their anger and disappointment by suing. The three, all white, answered an open call in 1997 from several Republican state legislators and a public interest law firm seeking volunteers to challenge the university's race-conscious admissions policies.
NYTimes
On Environmental Rules, Bush Sees a Balance, Critics a Threat 2-23-03
A judge For two years, it has come in bursts, on issues from arsenic to wetlands: the unfolding of what President Bush, as a candidate, promised would be a new era of environmental protection.
Whether rejecting a treaty on global warming, questioning Clinton-era rules on forest protection or pressing for changes in landmark environmental laws, Mr. Bush has imposed a distinctive stamp on a vast landscape of issues affecting air, water, land, energy and the global climate.
Washington Post
EBay's Affluent Flood Charities, Civic Groups 2-21-03
The Internet site once dismissed as an online flea market has produced three of America's most generous philanthropists.
The trio from EBay Inc.— co-founders Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll and Chief Executive Meg Whitman — represents the largest contingent from any company on the 2002 America's Biggest Donors list, which appears in the current issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Their combined donations totaled just over $99 million.
EBay's showing on the list surpasses that of firms with much longer histories and much bigger market values.
Wahington Times
Anti-war activists target Bush, Hill 2-20-03
"Last weekend, we marched in the streets," former Maine Democratic Rep. Tom Andrews, who is the national director of Win Without War, said at a news conference yesterday. "Next week, we're taking it to the suites of official Washington."
Organizers of the "virtual march" on Washington are calling on supporters to call, fax or send e-mail to their U.S. senators and the White House during business hours on Feb. 26.
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