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'The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of local draft boards.
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If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 local and appeal boards throughout America would decide which young men in each community receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on federal guidelines.'

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'Hillary Clinton believes that “religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” to expand access to abortion.

Clinton said today that it’s not enough to legalize the procedure. “Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced,” she said Thursday, per the Daily Caller. “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”'

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'Why is it so hard to get movies made about women? According to Meryl Streep, it might be because many male viewers lack the imagination needed to appreciate them.

Then again, they've never needed it.

Streep elaborated on this idea on April 22 in a conversation with "Selma" director Ava DuVernay and Pakistani documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, moderated by Jon Stewart. The impressive panel, called "Story Power: Three Great Women In Film," was part of the sixth annual Women In The World Summit, presented by Tina Brown Live Media.'

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'In November last year, anti-rape activists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, erupted in outrage when it was announced that libertarian feminist Wendy McElroy had been invited to take part in a debate about sexual violence. McElroy, as it happens, was herself the victim of a rape so violent it left her with permanently impaired vision. But she has since incurred the wrath of those who claim to speak for rape victims by vehemently disputing the existence of what radical feminists call ‘rape culture’. Rape culture, McElroy has written, is ‘a lie [which] has been successful in spite of reality’ and is now being used to justify an illiberal and sinister attack on due process. Whether one agrees with this view or not, it ought to be obvious that transparent debate of this issue is not only legitimate, but vital. McElroy’s activist opponents disagreed. The very expression of opinions like hers, they insisted, constitutes an intolerable threat to student safety.

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'Megyn Kelly has a message for feminists: Toughen up, Buttercups.

Kelly, host of Fox News’ The Kelly File, invited Christina Hoff Sommers onto her show Wednesday night in order to discuss the demands made by students at the University of North Texas, who decided they wanted a commencement speaker who “better aligned with their values” than Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Although Sommers is known as the “Factual Feminist,” many scholars and feminists view her title as misleading and claim she is a critic of feminism rather than an actual feminist. Sommers coined the term “equity feminist” to describe her views, and argues that modern feminism contains “irrational hostility to men” as well as an “inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different.”'

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'In a first, researchers at Oxford University have watched infants as young as a day old as their brains process a light prodding of their feet. The results confirm that yes, babies do indeed feel pain, and that they process it similarly to adults. Until as recently as the 1980s, researchers assumed newborns did not have fully developed pain receptors, and believed that any responses babies had to pokes or pricks were merely muscular reactions. But new research published Tuesday morning changes that.

Taking advantage of the fact that newborns less than a week old tend to sleep through anything, Rebeccah Slater, an associate professor of pediatric neuroimaging at Oxford, and her colleagues placed 10 infants who were 1-6 days old in an fMRI machine. The researchers, who reported their findings in eLife, observed which areas of the infants’ brains became more active, or consumed more oxygen, as the scientists lightly poked their feet. They did the same for adults and compared the brain images.
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'A defective penile-circumcision clamp caused the tip of a 7-day-old infant's penis to be amputated, his mother claims in court.

Though the mother identifies herself and her son in the complaint filed on April 22 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Courthouse News has redacted their last names because of the sensitive nature of the claims.

The March 2010 "horrific injury" occurred in Oxnard, Calif., while baby Benjamin's doctor "performed what was supposed to be a routine circumcision procedure," according to the complaint.

For the procedure, Benjamin's doctor allegedly used a "Mogen Clamp," manufactured by Misdom-Frank Corp., Medco Group and Sklar Instruments, all of West Chester, Pa.

Unlike other circumcision instruments, the lawsuit says, the Mogen Clamp lacks a protective shield or bell to safeguard the head of the penis.

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'The principal of a school in Canberra has been suspended after it was revealed that an autistic boy was locked in a metal cage.

It was announced yesterday an investigation was underway after it emerged a 10-year-old autistic bot was put in a 2m by 2m structure by his teachers at a Canberra school.

The cage was specifically designed for him to as a 'withdrawal space' while in class. 

The principal has been removed from the school and two teachers with expertise in disability education have been assigned to the school.

The structure was in place from March 10 to March 27, according to ACT Education Minister Joy Burch.

Shadow Education Minister Kate Ellis said the mistreatment of students with a disability was 'shocking and deeply disturbing'.'

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'Senator Harry Reid [link added] (D-NV) stated that “women appear to me to be more patient” and not as inclined to go to war as men in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC.

Reid said, “the Senate is a better place because of women. Men and women are different. I’m so impressed with how women appear to me to be more patient. They are less — inclined to do things like war…I wish I could articulate the way I really feel about how much better the Senate is because of women.”

Reid added that the country “ready” for a woman Senate Majority Leader and a woman president.'

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'Allowing women to serve in ground combat positions could make them more vulnerable to sexual predators, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets Wednesday.

At least 18,900 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact last year, according to Defense Department estimates. As DoD takes steps to address the epidemic, the services are also studying the implications of opening ground combat positions to female service members.
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“Obviously, as we get women into more unaccustomed positions, maybe dangerous isolated positions, maybe positions where they are fewer in relation to the number of men, it opens up opportunities for predators,” Carter said.'

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Wiki on US Sec'y of Defense Ashton Carter

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'I think that certainly was the biggest challenge in terms of being women, but in terms of how it really helped us is that I think women are natural multitaskers, and we handle crisis in a natural way. This was not an easy project to pull off but it felt like a very smooth set, like a very calm set, a very positive environment, and I credit that to our team. I think that has something to do with how women handle problems. That’s why women make great directors and great producers.'

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'Bahar Mustafa, of Goldsmiths University, organised an event for students to protest against inequality and celebrate racial unity.

But the gathering soon sparked outrage after she appeared to banish all men and white people from attending.

She posted on the Facebook event page: "If you've been invited and you're a man and/or white PLEASE DON'T COME just cos (sic) i invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only."

Instead, people were asked to invite "loads of BME women and non-binary people".

BME is a politically correct tag meaning Black and Minority Ethnic, while the term 'non-binary' is said to be used by those who do not associate themselves with exclusively being a male of female.'

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'Left-leaning student activists at Oberlin College hung posters at the Christina Hoff Sommers event earlier this week that identified the students involved in bringing the individualist-feminist and AEI scholar to campus.

Each poster gave the name of a specific student-member of the Oberlin College Republicans and Libertarians and accused that person of perpetuating rape culture.

Images of the posters were sent to Reason via a source who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. The last names of the students identified by the posters were blurred before Reason received them.
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They have the right to denounce their fellow students as perpetuators of rape culture, I suppose, though the fact that some students would smear others with this charge for merely bringing a speaker to campus is disappointing. Do students no longer recognize that the entire point of challenge is to grapple with new and different ways of thinking about the world?'