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'BRISTOL, Conn. - Authorities say a 22-year-old Southington woman faces up to six months in prison for falsely claiming a town police officer raped her last year.
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She alleged a Southington patrolman caught her trying to buy drugs, then forced her into having sex if she wanted to avoid being arrested.

She repeated the assertion to detectives, and more than 30 officers fitting Ladd's description were interviewed before she recanted.'

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'But if you want to bring out the big guns, I recommend what those of us inside the divorce industry have come to term the "nuclear option". Just call up Child Protective Services and tell them that your husband has molested one of his own children. I can't wait for you to see the look on his face! It is best for you to choose a child who is either 1) impressionable enough to repeat a story that you have taught him, or 2) is young enough that she can't be expected to articulate what "really" happened in her own words. A good time to make the child molestation allegation is after daddy has helped bathe your child. "Daddy washed me ALL over" is sure to raise questions.'

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'Let's look at the different ways the genders approach parties:

Women enjoy parties for the conversation and companionship. Men like that stuff, too, but it's difficult to keep a scintillating conversation going while eating with both hands.
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For women, holiday parties offer an opportunity to dress up. For men, parties are a reason to wear pants, at least at first.
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At dinner parties, women compliment the chef by oohing over the food and asking for recipes. Men compliment the chef by groaning and asking for more.

Women politely offer to help the hosts serve food and drink. Men sometimes clean up their own spills.

Some fancy parties include dancing, which many women enjoy. Men prefer a challenging game of drunken Twister.'

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'Men are losing jobs at far greater rates than women as the industries they dominate, such as manufacturing, construction, and investment services, are hardest hit by the downturn. Some 1.1 million fewer men are working in the United States than there were a year ago, according to the Labor Department. By contrast, 12,000 more women are working.

This gender gap is the product of both the nature of the current recession and the long-term shift in the U.S. economy from making goods, traditionally the province of men, to providing services, in which women play much larger roles, economists said. For example, men account for 70 percent of workers in manufacturing, which shed more than 500,000 jobs over the past year. Health care, in which nearly 80 percent of the workers are women, added more than 400,000 jobs.'

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'New research reveals that many men in second marriages shape up, becoming the partners their first wives had probably wanted them to be. They share the domestic chores more equally with their second wife than they did with their first.

But for women in second marriages, the story is different - or rather it is the same old saga. They tend to carry an unchanged and unequal burden of domestic chores just as they had done the first time round.
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"Maybe these younger second wives are asking the men to do more, and the men have to do more to compete with younger males," Dr Solaz said. "Maybe the men have learnt from the mistakes of their first marriage."'

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'University of Michigan researcher Daniel Kruger looks to evolution and mating for an explanation. He theorizes that men overspend to attract mates. It all boils down, as it has for hundreds of thousands of years, to making babies.
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Financial consumption was the only factor that predicted how many partners men wanted in the next five years and also predicted the number of partners they had in the previous five years, Kruger said. Being married made a difference in the frequency of one-time sexual partners in the last year, but not in the number of partners in the past or desired in the future.

The 25 percent of men with the most conservative financial strategies had an average of three partners in the past five years and desired an average of just one in the next five years. The 2 percent of men with the riskiest financial strategies had double those numbers.

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'Glued to a Play station while moms do real work

I have always believed the cliche about guys not growing up, but now not only has this notion proved to be nauseating, it’s become their greatest excuse.

Guys such as Paul Mashaba and his obsession with computer games make it impossible to be polite and if I have to slam doors again, I’ll also remove the handle.

Please help my best friend’s man and his buddies stay away from computer games. This hobby is childish, it’s time wasting and downright brain smashing.'

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'NEW DELHI: Feel fortunate if you are seeking the nursery admission of your girl child this year. Boys may crib, but many schools are giving extra points to girls in the admission criteria. The purpose is to facilitate the education of the girl child as the ratio of girls to boys is still dismal in the classrooms, say schools.

"Being a co-ed school, we want a healthy ratio of boys to girls in our school because of which we are giving 10 extra points to the girl child. It's alarming that the number of girls coming for admission has declined over the last five years. Roughly, every fifth applicant for nursery admission is a girl,'' said Jyoti Bose, principal Springdales, Dhaula Kuan.'

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'A guilt-ridden teacher who turned herself in to police after having sex with a pupil is facing a prison sentence.

Alison Smith, 29, spent the night with the 15-year-old boy after he visited her home with friends.

She told officers the teenager had instigated kissing between them, but no one had instigated the sex. ' That just kind of evolved,' she said.

Smith's name has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after she pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Friday to breaching her position of trust and having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old.'

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'The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it "waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have "gender-bending" effects.

It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.

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'There will be no jail time for the Ashburn woman charged with holding her former employer and his family at gunpoint in May, following a pleading in Circuit Court. Instead she will be transferred to a state hospital for mental evaluation and treatment.

Michelle Raquel Davidson, 39, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity before Judge Thomas D. Horne this morning to two charges of abduction and one count of breaking and entering with a deadly weapon. In exchange for her pleas, the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute her on the three counts of using a firearm in commission of a felony, charges that carry a mandatory prison sentence.

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'AUBURN, CA - A Granite Bay mother has been found legally insane at the time she drowned her newborn daughter, but will still face prison for other abuse.

Kristina Fuelling cried openly at several times Monday when she pleaded guilty to attempted murder and child cruelty against her newborn daughter Faith last January.

To the key charge of second degree murder, however, the Placer County judge found Fuelling, 27, not guilty by reason of insanity.

Faith Fuelling was only eight days old on January 19, 2008, when her mother put her in a sink, turned on the water and held the infant under until she drowned.'

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'Charges against Tiffany Fraser, a 26-year-old mother accused of putting her young son in an oven for losing a cell phone, were dropped yesterday at the recommendation of Child Protective Services.

Fraser, an Airmont resident, was indicted in May on felony assault and misdemeanor child endangerment charges.

Her son, then 7, was placed in the custody of a foster mother.

"Following recommendations from Child Protective Services and the expressed concerns of the child's foster-care mother, it was concluded that proceeding with the case against Fraser will likely cause further harm to the young victim," District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said in a statement yesterday. "A dismissal of this matter was clearly in the child's best interest."

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'The stepmother accused of beating a 2-year-old boy to near death consented to allegations of abuse, abandonment and substance use Wednesday in Lee County dependency court.

She did not admit guilt.

Rosemary Kunz, 23, was arrested in October on charges of cruelty toward a child by aggravated abuse and neglect of a child causing great harm. She told detectives she was "addicted" to abusing him.
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Kaydin suffers headaches daily, his aunt said, and takes seizure medication twice a day.

“He cries and holds his head and just says, ‘No more owwies, no more boo-boos,’” Prange said.'

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'A mom accused of setting her child's hand on fire is being held on $2,500 bond.

Natasha McIntosh appeared in front of a judge Thursday.

Authorities said she put rubbing alcohol on her child's hands and set them on fire.

She told the judge she was under a lot of stress.'