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'The research shows men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.

Researchers who carried out the study, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, think the reason may be that men use up so much of their brain function or 'cognitive resources' trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks.

The findings have implications for the performance of men who flirt with women in the workplace, or even exam results in mixed-sex schools.
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'Milan, Italy – Labor laws should not make any distinction based on gender: This may seem obvious in most democracies. Yet a public outcry arose when the Italian parliament recently ratified a new law ending discrimination in the retirement age between men and women – much of it from women's rights groups and labor unions.

Until now, female employees could retire at 60, five years earlier than their male counterparts – a double standard based on the consideration that women also take care of the housework and family. The European Commission found the rule illegal last year, and the government acted to bring Italy into compliance.

But not all women are happy about the change – underscoring how traditional ideas about gender roles have held surprisingly firm in Italy, both in raising children and looking after ailing parents.'

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'Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes in women's roles and massive job losses for men during this recession.

Women held 49.83% of the nation's 132 million jobs in June and they're gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Through June, men have lost 74% of the 6.4 million jobs erased since the recession began in December 2007. Men have lost more than 3 million jobs in construction and manufacturing alone.
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The gender transformation is especially remarkable in local government's 14.6 million-person workforce. Cities, schools, water authorities and other local jurisdictions have cut 86,000 men from payrolls during the recession — while adding 167,000 women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.'

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'A British woman has denied enslaving three girls and forcing them to work for up to 20 hours a day in horrific conditions.

Mercedes Farquharson, 63, is alleged to have banned the girls, who were not her natural children, from going to school or having friends.

Charges said she forced them to perform physical labor in harsh conditions at her house in Monroe, North Carolina, in the United States.
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The girls were rescued in 2005 at the ages of 15, 18 and 22 following complaints from neighbors of suspicious activity at the house.'

Written in 2003, but highly relevant to today. While the article doesn't mention men as such, you will note all the targets for these improper prosecutions were men. The public rushes to the sympathetic aid of women while rushing as aggressively to condemn men merely upon accusation. Excerpt:

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'He and other exonerees in Texas, which leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted, soon will become instant millionaires under a new state law that took effect this week.

Exonerees will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. The compensation also includes lifetime annuity payments that for most of the wrongly convicted are worth between $40,000 and $50,000 a year — making it by far the nation's most generous package.
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His payday for his imprisonment — a time he described as "a nightmare," "hell" and "slavery" — should come by mid-November after the state's 45-day processing period.

Exonerees also receive an array of social services, including job training, tuition credits and access to medical and dental treatment. Though 27 other states have some form of compensation law for the wrongly convicted, none comes close to offering the social services and money Texas provides.

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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."'

Funny how CBC has not opened this story up for comments. Excerpt:

'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.'