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'The proportion of men who experience symptoms of depression may be similar to the proportion of women with depression when doctors look for non-traditional symptoms, according to a new study.

Researchers found that one third of both men and women met the criteria for a depression diagnosis when traditional and alternative symptoms - such as aggression and sleep problems - were taken into account.

"You end up getting very similar rates of depression," Lisa Martin, the study's lead author from the University of Michigan in Dearborn, told Reuters Health.

About 16 percent of Americans currently meet the criteria for depression, Martin and her colleagues write in JAMA Psychiatry. Previous research has found women are about twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with the condition.'

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'NEW YORK – New York City police say they've arrested a woman after she offered an undercover officer a $60,000 stamp collection to kill her husband.

Police say Elena Adams was arrested Thursday and charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation. They say the 57-year-old met with an undercover officer inside a car in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn to discuss the murder-for-hire plot.

Police say Adams told the officer her husband should be struck by a hit-and-run driver on Sunday as he crossed a street after lunch. They say Adams gave the investigator a picture of her husband, the stamp collection and jewelry.'

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'A Burlington woman pleaded guilty last week to felony obstruction of justice, falsely reporting that a man raped her sister.

Patricia Suzzane May, 38, of Kimesville Road, Burlington, was charged with sell/deliver a schedule II controlled substance on March 9. She was also charged with making a false statement to investigators, that the man she sold drugs to had raped her sister.

May was later indicted on a felony obstruction of justice charge.

In exchange for the plea, the remaining charges were dismissed. Superior Court Judge Elaine Bushfan issued a four- to 14-month sentence as a level-one offender and placed her on 24 months’ probation. May was ordered to complete a seven-day split, active sentence in the Alamance County Jail and have no contact with the victim in the case.'

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'An elementary school teacher at a North Carolina K-12 school has been accused of having sexual relationships with two different students over a four-year period.

Amy Tilley Bower, 45, was arrested and charged Wednesday with two counts of sexual activity with a student and two counts of indecent liberties with a child, according to the Watauga County Sheriff's Office.

Police received a report concerning the 5th-grade teacher's inappropriate conduct in late July.

According to WBTV, the report alleged that Bower was involved in sexual relationships with minor male students from 1998 to 2000 and 2004 to 2006.

According to WSOC, both students were 15 years old when the alleged relationships began.'

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'Montana residents are fuming and on a campaign to oust a state judge who ruled that a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl — who subsequently killed herself — deserves only 30 days behind bars.

What made the sentence more shocking to many was District Judge Todd Baugh’s remarks in court: He said that even though the girl, Cherice “Cherry” Morales, was decades younger than her attacker, Stacey Dean Rambold, 54, and obviously troubled, taped police interviews showed she was “as much in control of the situation” as Rambold. The judge also said the girl was “older than her chronological age.”
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Meanwhile, Montanans have been sending protesters to his courthouse in Billings. The Montana National Organization for Women also has asked the state to step in and force a longer jail sentence for Rambold.'

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Female Teacher Molests 13 Year Old Student, No Jail Time

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'According to new Census data, more American men are living alone than ever before -- and the rising divorce rate could be to blame.

The Census data shows that the number of men between the ages of 15 and 64 who are the head of a one-person household has risen considerably since 1970. In 1970, 23 percent of men who fell within the 15-64 age range lived in a one-person household, compared to 34 percent who do today.
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However, there was no increase in the number of women living in single person households, or men over the age of 65 who are the heads of single-person households. The Census report indicates that this could be because children are more likely to live with their mothers after a divorce, leaving more fathers living completely alone post-split.'

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'Police in northern China launched a massive search Wednesday for a woman accused of gouging out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.

Authorities in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province offered a 100,000 yuan ($16,000) reward for the woman's capture.

Police did not say if they had identified a suspect, and the boy said only that the woman spoke with an accent from outside the area. State media said the boy was recovering in a hospital, but had lost his sight permanently following the brutal ordeal Saturday.
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State media previously had raised the possibility that the boy's corneas were taken for sale because of a donor shortage in China.

A news report on a provincial TV channel showed the boy writhing in pain on a hospital trolley, with bandages around his head, and his parents, both farmers, crying.'

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'Cuccinelli is not specifically, openly pro-fathers’ rights (and to be clear, the No. 1 “fathers’ rights” issue is wanting to pay less child support). His support for their agenda is honestly more about his opposition to legal divorce, something else he doesn’t talk about much anymore.

“If you are sued for divorce in Virginia, there’s virtually nothing you can do to stop it,” Cuccinelli said in 2008 to the Family Foundation, a socially conservative Richmond-based advocacy group. “This law has everything to do with the breakdown of the family. The state says marriage is so unimportant that if you just separate for a few months, you can basically nullify the marriage. What we’re trying to do is essentially repeal no-fault divorce when there are children involved.”

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'Two weeks after he was sworn in as Virginia attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli II went to court one last time as a private-practice lawyer.

Fellow lawyers viewed the appearance at the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in January 2010 as unusual because attorneys general almost never handle private cases. At the time, Cuccinelli’s deputy told The Washington Post that the case involved “some sensitive issues and some child witnesses, and the client wanted some sensitivity, and he wanted Ken Cuccinelli, so he finished out that matter.”

Cuccinelli’s office didn’t say so then, but the client was Ron M. Grignol Jr., a former House of Delegates candidate embroiled in a custody dispute with his ex-wife.

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'National Parents Organization of Connecticut is seeking volunteers to respond to Connecticut’s Department of Social Services proposed amendments to the child support guidelines. We need volunteers to attend the hearings and help get other members to attend the hearings.
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The Connecticut Executive Committee is writing National Parents Organization of Connecticut’s formal response representing our views and recommendations. It will be posted on the website when it is competed.

From our experience in Massachusetts, we have learned that attendance is important.'

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'Women represented 27 percent of workers in science and engineering jobs in 2010, according to the National Science Foundation. And while women are either equally represented or surpass men in obtaining undergraduate or advanced degrees in the social or biosciences, women still lag behind men in the physical sciences and mathematics. In computer science and engineering, women represent less than 30 percent of those seeking degrees, according to the foundation.

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'The Men’s Project is an internship and educational outreach program at the UA that aims to address issues specific to college men. Started last spring by the Women’s Resource Center Program Director, Krista Millay, and two undergraduate student interns, it seeks to become a resource for those who are generally ignored in diversity-oriented college programming: men.

Although college males are not a traditionally marginalized group, Alex Karaman, a graduate assistant for the Women’s Resource Center who specifically oversees The Men’s Project, explains why this group is important.

“On one hand, men are afforded many advantages in our society, from higher pay to greater presence in political offices,” he said. “On the other hand, when discussing identity-based programming, men can be left out of the equation. Research focuses heavily on traditionally marginalized university communities: young women, students of color, low-income students, and international students.”

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'Girls have been academically outperforming boys for years and the growing achievement disparity is an "elephant in the room" which should be causing concern, some principals say.
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The 10 per cent disparity in level 3 achievement nationally stretches to 27 per cent in co-educational secondary schools in the Nelson region.
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Mr Ching said Waimea had introduced programmes to address the achievement gap and improve boys' attitudes, including a junior boys' literacy programme - with senior male students volunteering as tutors.
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Mr Ching said the big issue in the 1980s was proving that "girls can do anything", and noone had thought twice about promoting that ideal. Now boys were the ones lagging behind.

"If we want to make a change we have to look at opportunities that will promote the performance of boys, without disadvantaging girls in any way," he said.'

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'The increasing number of boys playing on girls' high school teams has altered the competitive balance of some sports, according to recent court filings by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.

But this week, a Commonwealth Court judge declined to modify a 38-year-old injunction that barred the PIAA from engaging in gender discrimination.

Instead, Judge B. Kevin Brobson said if the PIAA wanted to ban boys from participating in girls' sports and vice versa, it should establish such a policy.

"Only then, if that policy is challenged in a court of law, may its constitutionality be evaluated," Brobson wrote.'

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