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'Attorney David Cornwell released a statement on Tuesday requesting the accuser to drop her sexual assault civil lawsuit against Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger. In a statement entitled "Andrea McNulty's Own Words Prove She was Not Raped By Ben Roethlisberger," Cornwell contends that McNulty's online behavior is inconsistent with someone who had been sexually assaulted. (Via the Reno-Gazette Journal, a pdf of the statement can be found here.)

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'The 27-year-old woman, who lives in Malaga, used the excuse to get a termination when she became pregnant after having an extramarital affair, police said.

The woman, who is from Latin America and has not been named, told police that she had been followed by a masked man who forced her into the back of his car, drove her to scrubland, and raped her at knife point.

But police became suspicious after inconsistencies in her story and because she failed to report the crime until two months after the supposed attack. She then took her police report to a medical centre and asked for an abortion.

Police spend three weeks investigating her claim before they accused the woman of inventing the story to prevent her husband discovering that she had become pregnant from her lover.

She is facing between six months and a year for requesting an abortion on false grounds and six to 12 months for falsifying a crime.'

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'It turns out there was also another -- unspoken -- requirement: the tutor ought to be a woman. This was something my wife and I both felt in our gut, even though I knew it made me a huge hypocrite.

I have written over a thousand blog posts on fatherhood, mostly making the point that there is no reason why guys can't do the childrearing thing as well as women. And I know that unfair stereotypes are a reason why so few men end up in primary education. But it's one thing to defend my days as an at-home dad and another to put an elementary-school girl alone with a college guy for hours a week. Yes, I know the risk is low, but why accept the risk at all?

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'Movement was something teachers were seeing a lot of in Ouachita Parish kindergarten classrooms on Wednesday as they experienced the first ever district-wide "boy day." Tuesday's "girl day" in most cases was a bit more reserved.

"Crisscross apple sauce," Stacy Frost reminded her male students as they fidgeted in a reading circle. "That means cross your legs."

The pent up energy in both classrooms was quickly evident when either teachers' attention was momentarily diverted.

"The girls read books and played with Play-Doh yesterday," Herbet said, while the boys played with blocks, built race cars and threatened to attack toy castles. "The boys ... we want them ready for nap time."'

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'For the past two years, he has been researching the reading gender gap in Ontario as part of a project with the Education Quality and Accounting Office, an agency of the provincial government.

"It's a goal of the province to reduce the gap," said Klinger. "We want a strong knowledge economy. We have a goal in this province where we want 75 per cent of the children producing at what we call level three in achievement, which is considered to be the level of literacy you need to be successful. The girls are there; the boys aren't."

The reading gender gap is not exclusive to Ontario; it's an international problem. Girls, on average, are better readers than boys in every country in the world.

I met Klinger in his office at Queen's to learn about his work. I'm also an educational researcher who is trying to understand the reading gender gap,. I have visited schools in the U.S., Japan and Taiwan to better understand this phenomenon.'

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'MIDDLESEX COUNTY -- New Jersey colleges are intensifying efforts to interest more girls in engineering, physics, computer science and physics careers, offering girls-only programs in early high school, mentorship opportunities and networking groups.

The effort to roll out the red carpet for women into math, science and engineering labs isn't new, and in recent decades there has been clear progress: Women today account for more than half the students at some medical schools and in the biological and environmental sciences.
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At Rutgers this fall, the university is opening the Rosalind-Franklin House, a second all-women's dorm for math and science-related majors. The first such dorm, Bunting-Cobb, opened in 1989 and was the first of its kind in the nation.
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Earlier this month as the girls put finishing touches on their mechanized projects, several said they liked the no-boys rule. Boys can be competitive and domineering in science class, they said.'

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'More than 200,000 schoolchildren are paddled, spanked or subjected to other physical punishment each year, and disabled students get a disproportionate share of the treatment, according to a new study.

Among the cases cited in the report was that of a 6-year-old, first-grade boy with autism, who was paddled at his Mississippi elementary school. An assistant principal who the report described as weighing 300 pounds “picked up an inch-thick paddle and paddled him” on the buttocks, the report said.

“It just devastated him,” the report cited the boy’s grandmother as saying. “When a child with autism has something like that happen, they don’t forget it. It’s always fresh in their minds.”'

Ed.: You can be sure the vast majority of those beaten are boys.

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'CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government's decision not to admit any male candidate for the diploma course in nursing received the judicial nod on Monday, with the Madras high court dismissing a writ petition challenging the new norms.

The government, which was allotting 10 per cent of the available seats to male candidates till 2007-08, decided to make the diploma an all-girl course from 2008-09 following the introduction of a new syllabus by the Indian Nursing Council.

U Ashad Ali, whose application for admission was rejected by the health and family welfare department in November 2008, challenged the decision on the ground that discrimination on sex grounds was violative of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution. He said male nursing assistants were very much needed in various hospitals.

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'For two years Chezare Warren taught math at a middle school on Chicago's South Side, weathering the kind of situations that keeps so many men from pursuing teaching careers at elementary and secondary schools.

There were the usual jokes from friends about his low pay and cushy workday. There were the awkward moments with women who sometimes belittled his profession. There was the occasional whisper or suspicious glance from parents who questioned why a young man would choose to spend so much time with children.

Most troubling for Warren -- one of six male teachers on a staff of more than 30 -- was the look in the eyes of many of his young male students each semester who, lacking positive male role models at home, seemed to latch onto him for fatherly guidance.
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Many educators believe the trend has had a profound impact on the way young boys and girls learn. That's particularly true in urban communities where more and more children are growing up without a steady male influence, they say.'

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'ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque woman accused of smothering her child to death had earlier been ordered to take parenting classes, but never did, according to Albuquerque police.

Stephanie Ledford, 21, is charged with child abuse resulting in death for the July 9 killing of the 8-month-old boy. She is being held at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center on a $250,000 cash or surety bond.

According to Albuquerque police, she was arrested Wednesday after a complicated investigation where she had repeatedly denied hurting the boy and at times blamed her boyfriend.
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The boy told police he saw Ledford put the pillow on the baby's face while he was going to sleep and held the pillow there until the baby stopped breathing.'

From Intact America:

ACT NOW

Next week, officials from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be chairing a conference in Atlanta that will include discussions on how to introduce "large scale neonatal and adult male circumcision programs" to the United States.

Intact America will be on the ground to make sure the ethical problems inherent in such programs are not swept under the rug and ignored.

Reinforce our efforts in Atlanta by signing our petition to the CDC.

Already taken action? Ask your friends to help! Download our petition (.doc file) or share it on social networks.

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'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Arrests for women driving under the influence jumped by nearly 30 percent during the decade ending in 2007, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Transportation Department.

"To be honest with you, I was certainly surprised about that statistic," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at a news conference.

However, when it comes to drunken driving arrests, women continue to be outnumbered by men by four to one.
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The report, authored by the FBI for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, found a declining number of men arrested for similar alcohol-related violations.'

This needs to be tried as a gender-based hate crime. Excerpt:

'A GYMSLIP murderess aged just 17 was being held last night for knifing THIRTY men to death.
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She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult.

The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice".

She even SMILED as she reeled off her list of victims - which is feared to make her the world's most prolific teenage serial killer. She calmly bragged to police: "I don't have enough courage to hold a gun - but I can hold a knife.'

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'The classic manifestations of sleep apnea -- loud snoring, interrupted breathing and sleep disruption -- nearly double the risk for chronic disease and premature death among middle-aged and elderly men, according to major new research.

Even patients with moderate sleep apnea face an increased death risk, as much as 17 percent, compared with those who do not have sleep-disordered breathing problems, the decade-long U.S. study finds.

"The primary finding of our study is that sleep apnea can increase the risk of death by about 40 percent, even after other factors have been accounted for," said study lead author Dr. Naresh Punjabi, an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.'

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'Re: "Women at risk -- Our combination of pervasive misogyny, access to guns is a tragic mix, says Bob Herbert," and "Treatment of women isn't perfect, says Anne Applebaum, but we've come a long way, baby," Thursday Viewpoints.

Is Herbert kidding me? He truly believes we've become a "society saturated with misogyny"? If anything, we're a society with entrenched misandry, or the hate of males.

Daily violence against males often goes unnoticed and unreported. Male children endure more frequent abuse and neglect, including circumcision.

There is a special law to protect adult females against violence and another to protect infant females against genital mutilation.

The most blatant form of sexism in this country, Selective Service, essentially makes males potential cannon fodder. And capital punishment is more sexist than racist.