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'PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- At one time eating disorders were considered primarily as a women's disease. But recent studies show a growing number of men, young children and the elderly are suffering from anorexia or bulimia.

Eating disorder experts here in Maine say more people are getting help thanks to heightened awareness about the disorders.
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But the face of the disease is changing. The New England Eating Disorder program at Mercy Hospital is the state's only comprehensive eating disorders clinic. The clinic used to primarily treat women 14 to 22 years of age, now they have patients as young as 7 and as old as 70 -- and more men are seeking help.
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"Men are more comfortable now than they used to be in acknowledging that an eating disorder could be a possibility, a lot of athletes in particular will have a desired goal and go beyond that into a danger zone, so we work to get them back," said Dr. Lockhart.'

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'OLYMPIA — A University of Washington study has found disparities in race and gender in the penalties doled out by the state's criminal courts.
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"Our findings show that some people convicted of similar offenses face very different sentencing outcomes, not on the length of confinement but on the financial side," said Katherine Beckett, an associate sociology professor at UW. "It's a huge financial obligation to possess."

The study focused on court fees and fines, not the amount of time that defendants were sentenced to jail or prison.'

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'BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Buffalo woman has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for shooting her sleeping husband with a shotgun.

An Erie County judge gave Robin Kalinowski the harshest sentence allowed, even as she continued to maintain the November 2005 shooting was an accident.
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Kalinowski still faces charges of conspiring to hire a hit man to kill a man with whom she was having an affair. The would-be hit man was an undercover state trooper.'

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'A woman enraged at her husband's refusal to divorce her launched a furious physical assault on him in a court here.
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Several court guards were forced to intervene and eventually managed to separate the irate woman from her husband, whose clothes were in tatters by that time.

The man at the receiving end was slightly injured and was provided clothes to cover himself. His entreaties to his wife to calm down didn't seem to have the desired impact.
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The court official said the couple had a record of ongoing problems and marital disputes and that the woman had earlier lodged a complaint against her husband accusing him of failing to provide for her.
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This conversation provoked the woman who threw him to the floor and started raining blows on him hysterically.

The court official said the scene created by the woman in the court house was not acceptable, especially since she had given full vent to insults and had manhandled court staff and members of the public at the scene.'

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'In Nazi art, films and magazines, women were always portrayed as the fairer sex, fighting on the home-front as their menfolk fought on the battlefields.
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But a new book by the historian Kathrin Kompisch has revealed a very different reality.

"Apart from a few particularly cruel examples, the participation of women in the crimes of the Nazis has been blended out of the collective conscious of the Germans for a long time," she wrote in the book, Female Perpetrators: Women under National Socialism.

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'Monday's front page news contained an unprecedented case of literary lese majeste. A parent of a Grade 12 Toronto high school student petitioned for the removal from the school's reading list of The Handmaid's Tale, a 1986 novel by the queen of Canadian literature, Margaret Atwood.
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The Handmaid's Tale isn't drivel because of the sex and violence that concerned the parent. It is drivel because it is a paranoiac fantasy whose principal purpose and effect is to stir up hatred of men.
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Dystopian fiction deserves critical respect when its premises are grounded in psychological or historical reality. That sexual relations in the West on a collective scale ever did or ever could descend into Ms. Atwood's ideologically self-indulgent nightmare is -- well, fictional drivel.
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'There are cases that shock even the toughest of cops. The crimes that make hardened detectives sick to their stomachs. This is one of them.

A mother in Louisiana is accused of killing her own child. Investigators say the murder weapon was an SUV. And published reports describe the suspect as a former police officer.

The incident occurred Saturday morning. At around 9:15am on February 21, a call came into the Saint Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. A woman said she was walking along a rural road when she noticed a silver Suzuki SUV with extensive front damage. She said the driver told her to contact the police because she had just run over her son.

When the authorities arrived at the scene, they say the driver said the same thing to them – that she had run over her son. They also allege she directed them to his body. The victim was found next to a barn near the road. Samuel Utomeh was 11-years-old.'

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'Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty.

The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international agreement that has been foundering on American shores since it was signed by the Clinton administration in 1995 but never ratified.

Critics say the treaty, which creates "the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and outlaws the "arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy," intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference.
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Parental rights groups are similarly stirred; they see in the U.N. convention a threat that the government will meddle with even the simplest freedoms to raise their children as they see fit.'

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'For decades women have used the excuse “Not tonight darling, I’ve got a headache” to fend off amorous partners.

But a new survey has revealed more and more MEN are finding excuses to shun sex.

The poll by independent charity the Men’s Health Forum found that 15 per cent of men aged between 18 and 59 admitted to a “lack of interest in sex”.

And relationship counselling service Relate has reported a 40 PER CENT increase in the number of men saying they had gone off sex compared with ten years ago.

These men have no physical problems — they just do not want to have sex.'

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'First, many pre-modern societies have been run by women and were not strangers to war and suffering. Empresses and queens from Catherine the Great to Queen Elizabeth have created war all around the world. Women were able to gather power outside of Europe. In East Asia, empresses ruled China and not necessarily in peacetime. Empress Dowager Cixi, ruler of China, went to war over Vietnam, one of dozens of examples from the region.

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'Pretoria - Up to 75% of all perpetrators of human trafficking are women, according to a study released in Pretoria on Wednesday.
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In countries that participated in the study, 30% more women than men were convicted for trafficking.

"Women play an important role, more than men and boys," said Lucas.
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Sexual exploitation was found to be the main form of exploitation in southern Africa and the rest of the world. This was closely followed by forced labour, said Kruger.'

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'Tory Johnson, the organizer of the 10-year-old event and chief executive of Women for Hire, said the crowd was something she had never seen before. The expo, which saw about 1,500 people pass through its doors when it was last held in September, recorded that many attendees in the first hour.

Overall, the event brought in 5,103 people, according to Johnson. She noted that while most of the attendees were unemployed, some came to prepare for the possibility of a pink slip.

Men were allowed to attend the biannual event for the first time. Johnson said the decision was borne out of dozens of requests from women who had attended previous events, seeing a need for their husbands, brothers and fathers to find a job, too. About one of every five people in the line that spanned two city blocks was a man.'

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'PHOENIX (AP) - A Gilbert woman has been arrested in connection with the slaying of her husband, who police say was beaten with a hammer.

Marissa DeVault, 31, was arrested Friday and charged in the murder of Dale E. Harrell, 34.

Police said DeVault initially was arrested and booked into jail on Jan 14 for aggravated assault after she reportedly hit her husband with a hammer while he was lying in bed.

Harrell died Feb. 9 from his injuries, according to authorities.'

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'The argument that boys learn to read and write at a slower pace and are motivated by a more active style is backed by studies that date back 60 to 70 years, Brozo found.

The "boy crisis" point of view tends to ebb and flow, never gaining enough momentum to bring systemic change. It gained traction in the 1990s and held its ground through the early 2000s, culminating in Peg Tyre's best-selling "The Trouble with Boys" in 2008.

Feminists who had promoted better education for girls were skeptical, worried that girls would lose hard-won ground if attention shifted back to boys.
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"I have a lot of feminist friends in the academic community," Brozo said. "But I can't agree all the time with their assumptions that this is just an overreaction because girls are making great strides."'

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'It's well known that girls outperform boys in state schools, but it's less widely realised that the same phenomenon applies in the private sector, too. Of the 200 highest-ranked independent schools in the 2007 A-level league tables, three times as many were girls-only establishments (95) as boys-only (31), with the rest being co-eds.
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Vicky Tuck, head of Cheltenham Ladies' College and president of the Girls' Schools Association, agrees. "The modern-day exam system does favour girls," she says. "Girls are better suited to a style of working which requires diligence and consistency, rather than cramming everything into a three-hour exam."