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'Why do this now, you ask? Because it is always around this time of year when March Madness takes its place at the top of all the sports coverage that a very scattered minority of people choose to question the unequal coverage given to both the male and female basketball tournament.

This annual inquiry is merely a microcosm of a larger occurrence, and this issue deserves to be addressed without a thick layer of sugar-coating poured on top of it.

So what separates the sexes on the playing fields? First, it is public preference of watching the best perform at the highest level of play. People want to see who they perceive as the best of the best play against one another, and that fact does not exclude gender.

Take the WNBA for example. Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker was the first female player that was ever rumored to possibly be capable of playing in the NBA.

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'Perhaps this is what modern Russia really needs above all — a woman's touch. The women of Russia could surely do a better job than the backward-looking machismo men who have led it to nowhere. The world badly needs such a Russia, not just for its resources but for its positive influence in building new international institutions to replace the faltering or hollowed out 20th-century structures such as the U.N. Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and many others.'

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'EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - Some men came out Tuesday night to try and stop domestic violence, rape and other crimes against women, and they did it by putting on heels.

"It's an important issue," U.S.I. student Jon Steiner said. "It's ignored, I think. It doesn't get as much attention as it should."

"This is an opportunity to poke a little fun at us, to have some fun at it and also to replay that adage that says, 'you don't understand my life until you've walked a mile in my shoes,'" Sheriff Eric Williams said.

So, Tuesday afternoon, Sheriff Williams put on some gold pumps and joined a crowd of men as they literally walked a mile in women's shoes.
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"Men are the perpetrators of a vast majority of these crimes," Williams said.'

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'Last week was Love Your Body Week, which focused on helping women with eating disorders. It's great that these days women can easily find help for their eating disorders when twenty years ago they may have found it more difficult while trying to obtain the perfect figure. However, my question is: What about the guys?

Guys seem to be left out when it comes to respecting and loving their bodies exactly how they are. We seem to think guys have a better self-esteem than women and therefore do not need any help.

Many women strive for the perfect figure and try to accomplish this unrealistic model look by eating less or not eating at all. Plastic surgery or tummy tucks (if one has the money), or even excessively working out to the point of exhaustion and unhealthiness. Don't guys do the same thing?'

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'A mother has been accused of stabbing her 2-year-daughter with a scissors last night in Gardner and trying to strangle the child with an electrical cord, police said.

The mother, Susan Johnson, 38, allegedly stabbed the girl in the torso, head, and neck in a laundry room of an apartment building. The child was rushed to Heywood Hospital in Gardner and taken into custody of the Department of Children and Families.

When police arrived at the apartment building, a security guard had pinned Johnson to the floor of the laundry room, keeping her away from her bleeding daughter. Police arrested Johnson on charges that include attempted murder, armed assault with intent to murder, and assault and battery on a child with injury.'

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'It's a "he-cession" out there and, man, it's brutal.

Friday's government employment report is expected to bring bad news about job losses in a tough economy. The pain will be worse, however, for one sex more than the other.

To a much greater extent than in past recessions, men are bearing the brunt.

In December 2007, when the economy started tanking, unemployment ran nearly even at 5 percent for men and 4.8 percent for women. In February, that tally had shot up to 8.8 percent for men and 7.3 percent for women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The 1.5-point spread is historic, and likely to widen as the overall numbers keep soaring, said Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan in Flint: "I don't see it turning yet."'

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'LUFKIN, Texas — A former nurse has been charged with injecting 10 patients with bleach — killing five of them — at a dialysis center in Lufkin.

Kimberly Saenz has been indicted by an Angelina County grand jury on one count of capital murder and five counts of aggravated assault.

She's charged with injecting bleach into the blood stream of her dialysis patients over a span of four weeks last April.

DaVita, which runs the clinic, says the indictments were a "painful reminder" of the deaths that unfolded last year.'

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'A 26-year-old mother has been convicted of steadily giving her toddler cocaine over 14 months, finally administering a near-lethal dose that left him brain-damaged.

"It's difficult to see what would motivate her to give him cocaine, possibly to stop his crying, or to get him to sleep, or to control him. Was it to punish him or to get back at the father?" Justice Tamarin Dunnet said yesterday.

The Scarborough woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her son, also intentionally fractured a number of her son's ribs over time and failed to take him to hospital for a broken forearm, the judge said.

Cocaine levels discovered in the 2-year-old in testing at Hospital for Sick Children were so high that if he were an adult, he would be in the top 5 per cent of users, an expert testified.'

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'BOCA RATON - The Congress Middle School teacher accused of letting her two cats starve to death "was the victim of an abusive situation" and her Boca Raton apartment had become "a zone of danger that was real and significant," her attorney said Wednesday in the first statement released on her behalf.

"The State Attorney's Office has accused Ms. Allison Dinsmore of malicious acts that were committed with the intent to cause harm and suffering. This conclusion was not shared by the police agency initially assigned to investigate this matter," Dinsmore's attorney Jordan Lewin wrote in a statement.

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'A woman jailed for life for the brutal murder of a pensioner has become pregnant during day release from an open prison.

Lisa Healey is expected to give birth in the next few days after secret sex sessions with her boyfriend.

The 26-year-old, who has served 11-years-of her sentence, will bring up her child up in a mother and baby unit of Askham Grange Prison near York.
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Healey was 15 when she and her 14-year-old friend Sarah Davey killed widow Lily Lilley in Failsworth, near Oldham, Lancs in 1998.
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'The Prison Service provides Mother and Baby Units for the benefit of the prisoners' babies who would otherwise have to be separated from their mothers.

'The primary consideration is the best interest of the children.'

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'A businessman has been cleared of raping a university student after jurors were shown footage of the sex session taken on a mobile phone.

Gary Taylor, 41, was accused of attacking the 27-year-old woman after turning up at her flat with cocaine and a bottle of red wine.

The woman, who can't be identified for legal reasons, told jurors that Mr Taylor forced her to perform a sex act on him and then raped her in her living room.

But during cross-examination she was shown footage Mr Taylor had taken on his mobile phone during the encounter on September 26, 2008.

Mr Taylor's barrister Karen Holt said the footage showed the woman 'actively' performing a sex act on him.
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The prosecution offered no evidence following advice from the judge.

Mr Taylor, who runs a multimedia company, was cleared of four charges of rape and walked free from court.'

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'A single woman who was chosen to adopt a boy subjected him to four years of beatings and abuse.

She spat at him, locked him in a laundry cupboard for hours without food or water, and once pushed his face into a plate of hot spaghetti.

The adoption was one of the first by a single mother after social workers and adoption agencies began looking for single parents and gay couples to adopt, in some cases in preference to married couples.

The 43-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had never lived in a long-term relationship or been married when social workers decided she was suitable to adopt.

Yesterday she was given a conditional discharge after admitting child cruelty.'

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'Last weekend, I attended the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), Canada's first international conference on a form of child abuse that can be as bad as, or even worse than, sexual and physical abuse.

For the "show, don't tell" version of what the presentations added up to, read A Kidnapped Mind (Dundurn Press, 2006), by former model and journalist Pamela Richardson, who spoke at the symposium. Richardson wrote the book after her 16-year-old son, Dash Hart, neither drunk nor drugged, threw himself off Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge on New Year's Day, 2001.

Although Richardson was unaware there was such a syndrome until well into a 12-year custody ordeal as a "target parent," her detailed chronicle of a remorseless campaign to "disappear" her from Dash's life by his narcissistic father is the human face behind the evils described in the PAS literature.'

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'Some men want to get back at their wives so desperately they don't care if they destroy themselves in the process. A men's rights activist names the condition after a Shah Rukh Khan film, reports Savie Karnel.
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The squabble ended when he killed her and surrendered before the police. He said he'd had enough of her demands for money to lead a lavish life.

This may be an extreme case, but men trying to avenge their wives, whatever the cost, is on the rise, according to a men's rights foundation.
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Some are angry to be at the receiving end of dowry harassment cases when they haven't taken any dowry. So, they file counter cases saying giving dowry is a crime. They urge that the wife's family also be arrested.
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"It was not so before. We suggest to people who come to us to not get entangled in legal hassles and waste their time... But they all seem to want revenge and don't bother what happens to their lives," she said.'apR27Q