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'Asking for a prenup--a legal agreement that specifies how couples will divide assets if they divorce--doesn't exactly sound like a romantic gesture. After all, couples marry for love, not money, so who needs to work out the nitty-gritty financial details of a break-up that the couple hopes will never happen?
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Everyone does, insists Silvana Raso, matrimonial attorney with the Englewood Cliffs, N.J.-based law firm Schepisi & McLaughlin. "There's not a single person who couldn't benefit from a prenup, even if you're going into marriage with little assets," says Raso. "You might accumulate assets during the marriage, and even a young couple embarking on their own careers wants to make sure that what they acquire during marriage isn't just left up to a judge to divide," she adds.
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'Much orthopaedic research has been devoted to determining why women are far more susceptible to knee ligament injuries than men. According to a new study, the answer may lie in geometry – the length and shape of a patient’s knee bone – more than gender.

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'A mother who tossed her toddler into the Hudson River after suddenly spiraling into psychosis can return to her native India and her children, a judge said Friday after she reached a rare form of agreement with prosecutors to resolve her attempted-murder case.

Devi Silvia will continue treatment and medication in India, with New York authorities monitoring her progress during five years of probation.

Her lawyers called it a just result for a woman whose conduct was driven by a mental illness that emerged only in the days before she threw her daughter into the chilly river off Manhattan's Upper West Side, then leaped in herself, in May 2010.'

Story here. That's right, liars- as long as you are consistent, the hands of justice are tied. Nevermind the ruined lives. Excerpt:

'She insisted she was raped - she just couldn't remember actually having sex.

Maria Di Toro, the woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her in a Financial District law office, admitted she had no memory of the alleged attack — making it impossible for investigators to pursue a case against the Fox 5 TV anchor, sources said yesterday.

“Not remembering is not tantamount to being raped,” one source said a day after prosecutors announced they’re dropping their probe of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s youngest son.

Di Toro, 29, told investigators that she got so drunk the night she left her boyfriend at home to go out with the popular TV newsman that she blacked out on everything that happened after they left the bar to adjourn to the nearby firm where she works as a paralegal.'

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'Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes.”

In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much with us today, has been gradually declining. Moreover, he says, “over the long sweep of history, women have been and will be a pacifying force. Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages.” As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.

Story here. Read this one carefully. This is pretty damned suspicious. Excerpt:

'Authorities say the Tennessee River's current was swift when 25-year-old Christopher Heaton jumped in the water to rescue his girlfriend.

Heaton, of Jasper, Tenn., had driven to Bridgeport, Ala., to meet his girlfriend Tuesday evening. He arrived at their meeting place near a boat ramp to see her car sinking as it was swept down the river, said Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen. Witnesses told police Heaton immediately dived into the water.

But the woman -- whom police haven't named -- escaped from the car and was helped from the water by fisherman at a ramp only 20 yards away, Harnen said.
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Family members said in an obituary notice that Heaton believed a small child was trapped in the car. Investigators found a child's car seat in the vehicle when it was pulled from the river.

Harnen said investigators don't know why the woman drove her truck to the edge of the boat ramp.

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'David Cameron faced a business backlash last night after warning that companies could be forced to appoint more women to their boards.

The Prime Minister refused to rule out the introduction of so-called ‘golden skirt’ quotas if business leaders fail to meet government demands for more females in top jobs.

In his strongest threat yet to business leaders, Mr Cameron said the promotion of women needed to be ‘accelerated’. The Government has already set voluntary quotas for business leaders to more than double the number of women in boardrooms by 2015.'

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'The Pentagon on Thursday will propose rule changes that will allow more women to formally serve in jobs closer to the front lines.

Defense officials say as many as 14,000 positions could be opened up, though the restrictions on women serving in infantry combat units will remain in place.

The rule change reflects the ongoing reality that in a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, women were already dying in combat with the blurring of the traditional definition of front lines. Nearly 300,000 women have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and 144 of them have died in those conflicts.

The rule change is included in a report required by Congress as part of last year’s Defense Authorization Bill that has been overdue for months. The new rules likely will not go into effect until the summer if Congress raises no objections to the change.'

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'Large New York hotels plan to equip their housekeepers and staff with portable alarms so they get help quickly in case of trouble, officials said Wednesday.

Any staff member who must enter guests rooms, such as maids, waiters and mini-bar attendants, will be given the "panic buttons" within the next year, said Lisa Linden, spokeswoman for the Hotel Association of New York.

She declined to link the electronic alarms to the case of French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief who was accused of sexually assaulting maid, Nafissatou Diallo, at the Sofitel in New York in May. The charges against him were eventually dropped.

"It has been under discussion for some time," Linden said.'

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'In 2010, the New York City Department of Education was slapped with a lawsuit for its failure to comply with Title IX regulations and provide equal athletic opportunities for girls and boys in New York City high schools. In an attempt to correct this imbalance, the Department of Education has put an embargo on the creation of new boys’ teams altogether — effectively discriminating against boys in new schools and continuing to disparage girls in existing schools.

In New York City there is nearly an 8 percent difference between the number of girls who are enrolled in the district and the number of female student-athletes. If this gap were closed, it would allow an additional 17,000 girls to participate in a sport. In order to close it, the DOE is relying on new schools to establish a better balance. By granting solely girls’ teams in new schools, and denying opportunities for boys, the administration hopes the imbalance will work itself out over time.'

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'A mother allegedly slashed her nine-month-old baby’s throat just months after telling a pastor she could be possessed and might hurt the girl.

Bradie Simpson, 39, of Camdenton, Missouri, was found in woods 225ft from her home as she held the baby covered in blood with a neck wound.

It comes months after the body of her ex-boyfriend, the baby’s father, was found in the same woods last September, reported ABC affiliate KSPR.'

From a reader via email:

Maine's Governor has a new PSA* in his campaign for insane laws against men. This was unveiled this week with his repeated statements to the press (and by the press) that men are mostly responsible for DV and it is women and children who are the victims. Contact form is here.

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*Use Internet Explorer to view. Firefox didn't work, at least not for me.

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'Janet Howell, a Democratic state senator in Virginia, does not want females who are thinking of an abortion to look at an ultrasound first. We know why this legislation was proposed and why she opposes it: The ultrasound is the biggest deterrent to abortion. A woman or girl not really happy with the choice of abortion surely is going to think twice again and likely walk out.

Rather than debate the actual question — should government participate in a medical decision no matter how odious it is? — Missus Howell decided to be clever and mock men by offering an amendment to require a rectal exam for men before they receive a prescription for Viagra.
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Prescribing a medication is not a medical procedure. And I am sure that any responsible doctor would not prescribe such medication without first examining the patient, doing a family history and the like.

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'Under plans unveiled by the Government on Monday, the law would be changed to stress the importance of children having contact with both parents.

Similar changes in Australia led to delays in resolving custody disputes, Mr Clarke cautioned, adding that there were "dangers" associated with doing so.

The move, confirming a report in Friday's The Daily Telegraph, will mean that children are for the first time to be given the legal right to have a proper relationship with both their parents after a divorce. stops short of the guarantee of equal access demanded by some fathers' rights groups.