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'Back in May, we reported that a 46-year-old Canadian woman filed a lawsuit against Keanu Reeves, alleging that he fathered her four children, who are all in their mid-20s. She claimed that they were childhood friends, but Reeves said that he has no idea who she is.

She took it as far as demanding that Reeves undergoes a DNA test, stating that he owes her $3 million per month in spousal support (retroactive from November 2006) and $150,000 per month in child support (retroactive from June 1988). That adds up to about $140 million.

Fast forward to today, and the woman is still putting pressure on Reeves. To make the problem go away, Reeves' lawyer advised the 45-year-old actor to take the paternity test to "clear his name." And that's exactly what he's now planning to do.'

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'(CNN) -- A Mississippi high school football player is being hailed as a hero for saving a school bus full of elementary and high school students from a gun-wielding girl.

Surveillance camera footage on the Yazoo County school bus on Tuesday captured 18-year-old Kaleb Eulls tackling the 14-year-old girl while the children evacuated the bus.

Eulls managed to wrestle the .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun from her, Yazoo County Sheriff Thomas Vaughan told CNN.
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The girl was arrested and taken into custody as a juvenile. She faces 22 counts of attempted aggravated assault, 22 counts of kidnapping and one count of possession of a firearm on school property because the bus is leased by the school district, Vaughan said.'

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'WASHINGTON, Pa. — Police say a southwestern Pennsylvania woman raped a man and burned him with a curling iron to get him to comply.

Police say the 22-year-old man knows his alleged attacker, 23-year-old Samantha Harvey, of Washington, Pa.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Harvey who is jailed because the new charges violate her probation on theft and threat charges for stealing money from her grandmother in 2006.

Police charged Harvey Tuesday after investigating the man's claim that she forced him to have sex at his home on Aug. 20. The man told police Harvey clipped the hot curling iron to his ear and burned his genitals with it.

Harvey is also charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, terroristic threats and reckless endangerment.'

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“Boys are socialized to violence,” said Frank Durham, a UI associate professor of journalism and Antiviolence Council member.

He said it is difficult for young men to break away from that mainstream definition of masculinity.

“The mentoring program would offer acceptable, pro-social ways to be out of the mainstream,” he said.

Intended to forge relationships among students and faculty and staff members, the program will encourage discussions about masculinity and help raise awareness about issues such as dating violence and stalking.
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The council got its start in 2008, drawing some funds from a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. The money ran out in May, taking with it government directives that required a specific focus on violence against women.'

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'The hearings are the result of a 10-year effort by a group of attorneys and advocates for domestic violence victims. The group, the Missouri Battered Women's Clemency Coalition, has taken up 11 cases in Missouri, and has already helped get three women released early.

At the time the women were arrested, the group argues, there were few resources for battered women, domestic violence was poorly understood and evidence of abuse was not presented at trial.

"If they were in these situations today, they would not have been charged with the crimes they were charged with," said Colleen Coble, one of the leaders in the Clemency Coalition. "There was nothing for these women. They were left alone."
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They will encounter some opposition. The prosecutors in their cases, and some family members of their slain husbands, have argued that no evidence of domestic violence exists.'

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'Vanguard University is hosting a free screening of the documentary “Sin by Silence,” a film about battered women and their seemingly hopeless options to get out of abusive relationships.
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The film was inspired by a Vanguard professor’s book on battered women who were killers. The documentary is directed by Vanguard alumna Olivia Klaus and co-produced and edited by Vanguard assistant professor Ann-Caryn Cleveland.

The documentary questions why women don’t leave their abusers, examines the systems in place to help women gain independence from the relationships and aims to help people understand how domestic violence occurs today.

Organizers will take the movie on a tour of the 10 states with the most documented incidents of domestic violence in the country, school officials said.'

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'EL DORADO HILLS, California (CNN) -- The attorney for Nancy Garrido, charged in the Jaycee Lee Dugard abduction case, expressed concern Wednesday that intense media coverage may prejudice his client's ability to get a fair trial.

"There have been some misstatements made in the media, and possibly very innocent misstatements like, you know, 'She's charged with 29 counts, she was there, therefore she must be culpable,' " Gilbert Maines told CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday.
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"I'm sure you understand that this is a horrendous thing for her," Maines said. "I mean I realize it's horrendous for Jaycee and her parents and the children, but my concern right now is that my client get a fair trial."'

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'A 19-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder and abduction after the brutal beating of a toddler in Winnipeg early Tuesday.

The 14-month-old girl, named Vanessa, was attacked around 4:30 a.m. CT near a Manitoba Housing complex and playground on Chudley Street.

The woman charged, Nikita Solange Eaglestick, and the girl are not related, Winnipeg police said.'

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'Two of the four women accused of tying up a man to get revenge for his alleged cheating are due back in Calumet County Circuit Court today.
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And Ziemann then reportedly used Krazy Glue to attach the man’s sex organ to his stomach. Prosecutors said Davis was romantically involved with the three defendants outside his marriage.

The case has received national publicity. After the women were charged, Davis was charged with several unrelated crimes.'

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'Male disposability is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of our culture, that we rarely even think about it. And yet, it is one of the defining features of what it means to be a man. Throughout history, men have filled the roles and performed the tasks that demanded that you risk your life. The only risk that couldn’t be removed from women was that of child-bearing, but apart from that women have more or less always been kept out of harms way.

Now let’s not make the mistake that many contemporary feminists do and start talking about women’s evil oppression of men or something along those lines. Men being defined as the disposable sex was not a personal thing nor was it some kind of gender war (there wasn’t any room for a gender war in historical times). Women simply needed to be kept safe to ensure that the next generation was large enough to sustain or increase the influence of the community in question.'

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'Spending four years at a girls’ high school was life changing. I not only received a first-class education, but I regained the confidence that slipped away during my middle-schools years and I discovered that boys aren’t the only ones who can be leaders.

Because of my love of girls’ schools, I was fascinated to stumble across research that bears out what I experienced as a teenager. The longitudinal study, which surveyed alumni from a 27-year-period, found that undergrads who studied at women’s colleges rated their schools more highly than females who attended state universities or even coed liberal arts colleges.'

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'RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that Duke University's former lacrosse coach can pursue a slander lawsuit against the school and its former spokesman.

Duke's attorney has argued that the coach fired during a lacrosse scandal should be required to settle his claims through arbitration. Pressler's lawyers say arbitration could limit what the coach can get in damages.

The Court of Appeals decided Tuesday that Michael Pressler isn't required to arbitrate his slander and libel claims.

Pressler had settled with the school after he was fired following a stripper's false accusations in 2006 that she was raped at a team party. But the coach's lawsuit says Duke violated the settlement when a former spokesman made disparaging comments about Pressler to the media.'

Fact sheet here (.pdf file). Excerpt:

'This fact sheet summarizes information in four areas of male circumcision: 1) male circumcision and risk for HIV transmission; 2) male circumcision and other health conditions; 3) risks associated with male circumcision; and 4) status of HIV infection and male circumcision in the United States.
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Summary
Male circumcision has been associated with a lower risk for HIV infection in international observational studies and in three randomized controlled clinical trials. It is possible, but not yet adequately assessed, that male circumcision could reduce male-to-female transmission of HIV, although probably to a lesser extent than female-to-male transmission. Male circumcision has also been associated with a number of other health benefits. Although there are risks to male circumcision, serious complications are rare. Accordingly, male circumcision, together with other prevention interventions, could play an important role in HIV prevention in settings similar to those of the clinical trials [41, 42].'

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'Since 2000 the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men & Women (DAHMW) has been offering supportive services to abuse survivors through its nationally available toll-free helpline.

For the first time ever male survivors of domestic abuse will now have available to them a peer led, 12-week support group that they may attend right from home.

This support group will give participants an opportunity to understand the effects of abuse on themselves and their children, explore what healthy intimate relationships look like, and help them toachieve personal growth in all areas of their life.
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Participants will use virtual cameras and tune in online at scheduled times once a week for 12 weeks.

Participants must have access to a computer and high-speed Internet service.

DAHMW will reimburse participant for the web camera if they need to buy one.'