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'Women are wired in an intricate web. They can pay attention to everything at once, while the male becomes driven and fixated on one issue, unable to move on to the next until the one that occupies his attention has been roped, tied, and barbecued. They are able to pay attention to multiple stimuli and attend to all of them.

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An unfaithful wife has been jailed for two years - almost a decade after she cried rape just to hide a one-night stand from her husband.

Gaynor Cooke, 41, had told police she was violently attacked by a taxi driver to cover up her fling with him, and her former lover was due to stand trial next month.
No-one was arrested in 2003 because a forensic sample taken from her at the time failed to find a similar profile on the national DNA database.
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But when in 2011 the man, who she claimed was a stranger, was detained for a minor offence his DNA threw up a match.

The man she slept with was charged with rape and faced trial at Nottingham Crown Court in February. However detectives received information that Cooke had lied to conceal her infidelity.

And when police went back to speak to the 41-year-old about the new evidence she told them: 'You've got me'.

Cooke, of Corby, Northamptonshire, wiped away tears as recorder Shaun Smith QC jailed her for two years.

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'If a man has consensual sex with a woman after promising to marry her but later retracts, it amounts to rape, the Delhi High Court has said.

Dismissing the anticipatory bail application of one Firoz Ahmed, who had sexual relations with a widow, Justice Kailash Gambhir held that retracting from a promise of marriage after consensual sex would tantamount to rape.

Ahmed was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) following a complaint lodged by the woman.

The judge agreed with the view of the trial judge, who had dismissed Ahmed’s bail application, saying that the woman’s consent was obtained under the pretext of marriage and that the intention of the accused from the beginning was not to marry her.

Justice Gambhir upheld prosecution’s argument that Ahmed did not deserve bail as the offence fell under IPC section 375(4), which states that consent for sex obtained under a false pretext also amounts to rape.'

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'They found that at every level, boys' academic marks fell below where their test scores would predict. And they conclude that this discrepancy can be explained by non-cognitive factors - specifically by "how well a child was engaged in the classroom, how often the child externalized or internalized problems, how often the child lost control, and how well the child developed interpersonal skills."

In other words, the boys were being penalized, not because they lacked knowledge or understanding, but because of their behaviour. There seems to be evidence of this in Canada, too, as the Youth in Transition survey found that boys - both those who succeeded and those who didn't - were less likely than girls to be engaged in school, to enjoy the curriculum, or to get along with the teachers.

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'In Japan, the number of men and women choosing to marry later in life is on the increase and has reached a figure that can no longer be ignored. When it comes to the Japanese male demography, just why are so many choosing the single life? My Navi News asked 300 of its male readers the following question:

“Have you ever thought ‘Marriage isn’t for me’ or ‘I prefer the life of bachelorhood’?”

The results obtained were a little on the unexpected side:

Yes: 39.7%
No: 60.3%
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The total percentage of men that replied “marriage isn’t for me” or “I prefer the life of bachelorhood” was a whopping 39.7%! This figure exceeds the percentage of female readers that replied “yes” to the same set of questions. When it comes to the single men out there, the heavy burden of providing not only financially but also emotionally for the family makes many think twice about marriage.'

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'NEW WINDSOR — Three girls were charged with gang assault Tuesday morning after they allegedly attacked a mom as she put her young child on a school bus.

The girls — two 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old — called what they did "mobbing" or "popping" on someone, and told police they did it for fun and chose their victim at random.
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According to town police, the three girls attacked the mom as her child was getting on the bus. They repeatedly punched and kicked her and pulled her by her hair.

The 34-year-old victim suffered head and internal injuries, and had cuts and bruises all over her body. Her condition could not be learned later Tuesday, and it was unclear whether she was taken to a hospital.
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The suspects, whose names were withheld by police because of their age, were charged with second-degree gang assault, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.'

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'NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one in 25 U.S. teens has attempted suicide, according to a new national study, and one in eight has thought about it.
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The results are based on in-person interviews of close to 6,500 teens in the U.S. and questionnaires filled out by their parents. Along with asking youth about their suicidal thinking, plans and attempts, interviewers also determined which teens fit the bill for a range of mental disorders.
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third leading cause of death for people between age 10 and 24, killing about 4,600 young people annually.

Although girls are more likely to attempt suicide - a pattern confirmed by Nock's study - boys have higher rates of death by suicide because they typically choose more deadly methods, such as guns.'

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Story here. Look at how this is spun. "Her boyfriend abandoned her," thereby leaving her no option but to make porn movies. So, it was his fault? Ridiculous. Plenty of women, when they need money, go out and get jobs other than in porn/prostitution. Even more do so before needing money and *gasp*, a whole lot don't live off their boyfriends in the first place! Imagine that! Excerpt:

'A middle-school science teacher fired after students learned she had appeared in pornographic movies had hoped not just to get her job back, but to set a precedent for people looking to escape an embarrassing personal history.

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'No one is debating the importance of keeping children safe. The question being asked is what’s child’s play and what’s not?

Controversy at a Talbot County school after two six-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.

“It’s ridiculous,” said parent Julia Merchant

This is the second time a Maryland child has been suspended for such play. Earlier this month, six-year-old Rodney Lynch was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once.'

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'Future male pensioners could lose £10,000 from their income over their retirement under new gender equality rules coming into force on Friday.

Under the EU Gender Directive, firms will no longer be able to use a pension holder's sex as a factor when calculating annuity offers.

Currently men will typically get a higher annual income when they buy an annuity than women because they have a lower life expectancy. Providers can offer them more on the assumption payments will end sooner than for women.'

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'The equal pay debate in tennis is just great.

The reason the debate is so entertaining is because there is one very strong point that sits on the tip of the tongue yet goes unmentioned.

That is, women’s tennis is boring.

And maybe this point is avoided largely by the male population through fear of receiving a parliamentary lambasting about their crippling misogyny, sexism and chauvinism. But that just shouldn’t be the case.

Women’s tennis is boring. It’s the bit in between the real deal.

It’s the 6-1 6-1 steamrolling that only etches itself into the brains of tennis fans as the unfortunate stop-gap between Federer v. Nadal and Djokovic v. Murray.
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I’m not trying to write a sexist rant, I’m trying to be thought provoking. I don’t think the women’s game shouldn’t exist in its current form and I don’t think it’s altogether terrible though, there is no question then men deserve more money.'

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'Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society, commented: "This is yet another example of public money being used for religious purposes. There is absolutely no need for children to be subjected to such a procedure – in fact there are plenty of arguments why they shouldn't be. The idea that scarce NHS funding is being used for something that has only religious and no medical significance is scandalous.

"There is however a real danger that those seeking circumcisions will turn to practitioners without medical qualifications. We call on the Government to amend Child protection legislation to make it unlawful for anyone other than qualified medical staff to circumcise minors for any reason. This is just a first step, though. We believe that non-therapeutic circumcision should not be permitted until the boy is old enough to give informed consent.

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'Just as you begin to think that the dispute about including male circumcision as part of HIV/Aids prevention has ended, a sceptic “rocks the boat” and the debate appears to start all over again and; some people begin to wonder whether “to cut or not to cut”.