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'We often hear and read about men brutalizing women and it is a national disgrace that so many women live their lives in terror. I've written many times about the battering situations I came across as a police officer in NYC.

But, there's another type of battering I've witnessed, albeit not nearly as often; women brutalizing men. While working a tour in Brooklyn one night, my partner and I were summoned to an apartment to handle an assault in progress. When we arrived and climbed a few flights of stairs, we heard moaning sounds coming from behind an open door of one of the rooms. Other occupants of the building were standing outside their apartments yelling advice to us about the incident. "Be careful officer, she's crazy!" one woman hollered, jabbing her finger in the direction of the open door.'

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'Thank heaven for a good man indeed, that's a laugh. You would think that most women would really clamour for a good man's love, rush to be with a really nice guy, race to snag a gentleman, but alas, that is often so far from the truth.

Statistics have shown that many women don't really want nice guys - those knights in shining armour - and as the song says, "Nice guys only win in the movies", plus the French, who are reputed to know all about romance, also say, "Women marry gentlemen and fool around with rogues." So in any language it's "No nice guys, please." Nice guys seem to finish last on many occasions, and even the responses to my article on 'How to Handle a Woman' attests to that, as you'll see.'

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'It makes sense for more and more families, said Scott Coltrane, a University of Oregon sociologist who studies the role of fathers. In the months since Hammond lost his job, the work force trend toward 50-50 parity between males and females has accelerated, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts interpret that as indicating that more men have been laid off than women, freeing them for greater parenting duties.

Even before the recession, fathers were taking a larger role in family responsibilities as dual-income families became more the norm, Coltrane said.

And more stay-at-home fathers. The number jumped by almost 50 percent from 2003 to 2006, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. Even so, there were still more than 30 stay-at-home mothers for every father after that growth.'

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'The other pillar of the court’s anti-affirmative argument – and it cropped up again in the New Haven case – is that qualified white males are getting kicked to the curb and are losing ground to unqualified blacks, minorities and women. That myth has been repeatedly debunked. According to census figures, if every unemployed black worker in the country were to displace a white worker, only a tiny fraction of whites would be affected. Furthermore, affirmative action pertains only to job-qualified applicants, so the actual percentage of affected whites would be minuscule. In New Haven, the number of firefighters allegedly affected was 20. The main sources of job loss among white workers have to do with factory relocations and labor contracting outside the United States, computerization and automation, and corporate downsizing.
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'Throughout May, Bridge Community Health Clinic will offer well-woman checkups for $25. The checkups include a pap smear to screen for cervical cancer, a pelvic exam, a breast exam and blood pressure check, said Sarah Jaeger, a physician assistant at the clinic.

The exams do not include mammograms, but the clinic works with Aspirus Women's Health to see if Bridge Clinic patients qualify for free mammograms, said Laura Scudiere, Bridge Community Health Clinic's executive director.
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"With the economy and people being laid off, I think it's really going to resonate with people this year," Scudiere said. Some women only visit the clinic in May.

Screenings have caught precancerous conditions among some patients, Jaeger said. The clinic works with the state's Wisconsin Well Woman program to help offset costs for follow-up care.'

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'One of the annual rites of spring kicked off inside the Salina Bicentennial Center Thursday afternoon. Salina Media Group's "For Women Only" show did not disappoint.

A large crowd was already in the parking lot, ready to file in, as the doors opened at 4:30.

With nearly 50 vendors and booths, this year's edition featured something for everyone*, including great prizes.

Prize's [sic] ranged from $20 gift certificates to prizes worth hundreds of dollars. Riddle's Jewelry gave away the grand prize, a $1,500 diamond pendant.'

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*Everyone except men. Or children.

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'NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage boys who regularly eat fish may be doing their brains some good, a new study suggests.

Swedish researchers found that among nearly 5,000 15-year-old boys they surveyed, those who ate fish more than once per week tended to score higher on intelligence tests three years later.
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Researchers believe that the omega-3 fats found in fish -- particularly oily fish like salmon, mackerel and, to a lesser extent, albacore tuna -- are important to early brain development and to maintaining healthy brain function throughout life.'

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'A 31-year-old mother of a teenage daughter had unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old boy she picked up with his friends at a San Bruno movie theater last year, according to prosecutors who say she also plied them with alcohol and cigarettes.

Nina Valeska Herrera has pleaded not guilty to the charges of unlawful sexual intercourse, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor age 14, two counts of providing alcohol to a minor and three misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Herrera was expected to face trial last week but, with no judges available to hear the case, she returned to court yesterday to pick a new date of Aug. 31.'

According to the District Attorney’s Office, on March 9, 2008, Herrera “cruised around” in her minivan seeking out teenage boys at the San Bruno movie theater. Herrera, a divorced mother of a 13-year-old girl, reportedly picked up the 14-year-old alleged victim and his friends and offered them alcohol and cigarettes.

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'In recent interviews on “The Tyra Banks Show” and CBS’s “Early Show,” Levi Johnston accused the family of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of limiting his access to his infant son, Tripp.

Only the parties involved know if that is true, but Johnston has brought to the forefront the real pain suffered by many unmarried teen fathers, who have little or no access to their children due to interference by their ex-partners and their families. This is a real problem in America, where 76 percent of teen births are out of wedlock.

In response to Johnston’s statements, Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, called the boy a “deadbeat dad,” claiming that he was not contributing financially to the raising of his son.'

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'Year after year, there are multiple conferences and seminars dedicated to helping girls become young ladies, focus on education and achieve emotional wholeness, but seldom do I hear of the same type of programming for boys.

We tell our girls to be feminine, independent, virginal, strong and intelligent. We support this effort by developing programs to assist girls in these areas, but I often wonder if we have gone too far. What I mean is, have we as a society shifted our investment to girls with the assumption that boys will continue to improve? Statistics vary from source to source.

Some say that boys are not in crisis, when others state the opposite. In 2006, Newsweek published an article called "The Trouble With Boys." By almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind, the author wrote.'

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'It's strange to me that the same women who would not be caught dead using the words wuss and hysteria for their obvious and not-so-obvious slights about women will still proudly proclaim that they are feminists. In other words, my problem with feminism is a semantic one. Words shape the way we think about and how we interact with the world. Many men are put off by the word feminism, and rightly so, because it tilts the favoritism from one side of the scale, men, to its polar opposite.

In reality, women and men have equal intrinsic value, so a compromise is needed that eliminates the problems associated with feminism; for this purpose, I would like to coin the term equalism. An equalist is someone who advocates equal rights for men and women.'

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'A woman who battered a nine-week-old baby in an horrific attack has avoided jail after a judge decided she had already suffered enough. Claire Thompson, 32, who had been entrusted with looking after the infant, was found guilty in March of fracturing its skull, breaking a rib and inflicting up to three leg fractures.
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An expert at her trial said the skull fracture was probably caused by the baby's head hitting a hard surface with force, the rib was probably broken by severe squeezing and the the leg bones were likely to have been fractured by forceful pulling or twisting, or by violent shaking.

But yesterday Judge David Goodin spared Thompson from prison, handing her a nine-month suspended prison sentence, ordering her to do 200 hours of community service and telling her to pay &500 costs.

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'Any Jazz Fest veteran is familiar with portable potties. And the guys know to get in the lines where there are more guys than gals. The line just moves faster.

It seems the Jazz Fest organizers have given this some thought. This year look for two sets of roomy restrooms on 53-foot trailers that are for women only. That's even better than a short line at the Crawfish Monica booth.

The women-only restrooms will have flushing toilets, hand sanitizers and mirrors. One will be on the dirt trail in front of the Blues Tent, and the other near the Congo Square crossing.

So, go ahead and indulge in that Mango Freeze and jumbo lemonade. Drink up, girls!'

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'PALMDALE, Calif. — A woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly murdering her 1-year-old daughter, dumping her body along a highway and telling authorities the child was kidnapped.

Stacey Barker, 24, has been under investigation since her toddler was found March 20 in tall grass a few blocks from a Los Angeles highway.

The woman initially reported being knocked out by someone while putting young Emma into her car and waking up to find the child missing. She later recanted the story and claimed the child died in an accident.'