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'Who caused all the shrieking at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language School in London today?

A surprise visit from English soccer star David Beckham? Pop boy band, the Jonas Brothers?

No, that was First Lady Michelle Obama sparking a frenzy at the all-girls school, where she spoke about the importance of education, explained why being smart is cool and even shared a little girl talk about her courtship with her husband, President Obama.
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“By getting a good education you too can create your own destiny. I never cut class. I like being smart. I thought being smart was the coolest thing in the world,” she said. “You are the women that will build the world as it should be and that's why a good education is so important.”'

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"Pity the men, for there is nothing manly about depression.

Every belief a man holds about his masculinity is attacked by depression — his physical strength, sexual prowess and ability to provide and protect. All the traits that our society says makes a man manly.

Worse, most men do not know what's hit them. The symptoms of depression in men are so different than in women that many men are emotionally blindsided.

If asking for directions is difficult, imagine asking for help with your feelings.

'There is a huge amount of stigma for men,' said Michael Addis, head of the Men's Coping Project, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. 'Depression is seen as a personal weakness and a character flaw.'

Because many men define success by their bank accounts, experts expect to see more depression in men — and more suicide."

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'According to a recent report, more than a quarter of English children do not have even a single male teacher at their school. For many children, that means they have greatly reduced contact during the day with an adult man until age 11 when they go to secondary school. Children who don’t have a father in the home may not have any regular contact with a male role model until they go to secondary school.

The situation is similar in America, and Canada, and Australia—where between 70 to 75 percent of teachers are female.

Why is society robbing young boys of the masculine role models they need?

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'CUMBERLAND - A female high-school teacher from Frostburg has been sentenced to five years of unsupervised probation for having sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy.

Twenty-five-year-old Autumn Leathers also must register as a sex offender for her conviction on one count of fourth-degree sex offense.

A one-year jail term was suspended during her appearance Thursday in Allegany County Circuit Court in Cumberland.

Leathers pleaded guilty to the crime in January. In return, the state dropped more serious charges, including child abuse and assault.'

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'Men in their 40s are more likely to suffer a financial crisis than a midlife crisis these days.

Statistics reveal that about 28% of the 106,000 people declared bankrupt or insolvent in 2008 were men aged between 40 and 45.

This means men in their 40s are the most likely group to enter into an individual voluntary agreement (IVA) , say financial advisers Tenon Recovery.

The firm highlighted the South-East, including London, as the UK's IVA hotspot, with 25% of cases coming from the region. Next worse was the Midlands with 18.5% and then the North West with 15.5%.

Tenon director Gill Wrigley says: "As people reach their 40s, any increase in wages over the years is counter-acted by a disproportionate increase in outgoings, such as paying college bills.'

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'To snip or not? Any parent of an infant son faces this circumcision question; for some, like me, it's a no-brainer. I had my two sons circumcised in accordance with my Jewish faith. Others, though, would like to know if there are any health reasons in favor of circumcision. Well, a study of 5,000 initially uncircumcised Ugandan men in this week's New England Journal of Medicine found that once the men underwent circumcision, their rate acquiring herpes virus infection plunged by 28 percent and they were 35 percent less likely to get infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which is responsible for genital warts and, in women, cervical cancer.'

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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.'