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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.'

Article here. Boys are doing well on this particular test and its now considered a problem. It's acceptable for girls to outperform boys, but not the other way around. I suspect California will act quickly to change these testing outcomes while boys still wallow in special education classes. Excerpt:

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"Companies will be forced by law to disclose how much they pay men compared with women in a surprise government move to narrow the pay gap.

Compulsory “gender pay audits” will seek to shame employers who routinely pay women less, and spur more women to demand pay rises.
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The new law will apply to companies with 250 or more staff, who will be given until 2013 to comply. After that they will face civil or criminal prosecution. It will also apply to public sector bodies with 150 staff or more.
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Ministers would like to see a simple comparison of average hourly earnings of men and women, across the whole company, published in the annual report.

Although ministers recognise that career choices made by women, who often still favour low-paid professions, account for part of the pay difference, they believe that companies are still paying men more than women for similar work, in the belief that that no one will discuss their salary level so they will not be caught breaking the law."

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'A FATHERS' rights activist from Ottery has vowed to cause "massive public disruption" by "shutting down" one of the country's "major public infrastructures" by the end of the month.

New Fathers For Justice campaigner and dad of two Richard West*, 42, who has carried out a string of high-profile protests while clad in superhero garb, said he has issued the "ultimatum" to protest against the NHS and Home Secretary For Justice Jack Straw.

Mr West wants the NHS to disclose case notes regarding treatment given to one of his children and also claims a pledge to "open up" family court hearings to the media by Minister Straw is in fact a "smokescreen" that will see them "closed further" thanks to a related, "small print" contempt of court law.'

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'Contracts stipulating how much money each party would receive if a marriage collapsed have traditionally been demanded by successful businessmen wary of "gold-digging" wives.

But growing numbers of women – many of whom received large payouts from previous divorce settlements – are now turning to the law to ensure that their future husbands are not entitled to half their riches.
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"There has been a surge of interest. With the recession hitting there is an awareness among women that men are going to take their money unless they protect it," she said.
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"Many, particularly those who have been married before, have told us that they would very much like to find a partner but are cautious when it comes to what happens to their cash."'

Article here. Who says women can't steal? Excerpt:

"WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A mother and daughter in northeastern Pennsylvania have admitted to robbing a 73-year-old man of $100, then leaving him to die.

They are 37-year-old Andrea Bidding of Exeter and her 19-year-old daughter, Erika Legg. Both pleaded guilty to third-degree murder on Thursday for the 2005 beating death of Peter Lach at his home in Edwardsville, a small town about 95 miles north-northwest of Philadelphia. They said they did it because they needed money and didn't mean for anyone to die."

Clip here. This clip is only 23 seconds long but you'll notice the audience having a good laugh when Lorena Bobbit talks about throwing the man's genitals from the car window. Absolutely deplorable.