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December 7, 2003 11:20 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

County deletes 'master-slave' PC term
Los Angeles County officials have gone PC (politically correct) on PCs (personal computers) -- banning as potentially "offensive or defamatory" the words master and slave from computer hard drives and video equipment where they are used to describe primary and secondary circuits.

Tourney called biased against girl wrestlers
Two mothers who say their daughters were unfairly denied participation in a local wrestling tournament have contacted attorneys and the ACLU for advice on how to prevent it from happening again.

Judge: Excluding anti-gay view at school forum troubling
Excluding a cleric opposed to homosexuality from a school-sponsored forum on gays and religion was akin to Nazi book burning of the 1930s, a federal judge said Monday.
Hinting at how he might rule in a lawsuit filed by former Pioneer High School student Elizabeth Hansen, U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said during a two-hour hearing that he is troubled that school officials at the Ann Arbor high school allowed only pro-gay clergy to participate in the discussion during the school's Diversity Week program in March 2002. He said the panelists expressed only the view that school officials and the school's Gay/Straight Alliance wanted to project.

Sex-crimes data to be available on Web
Ohio is tightening its leash on sex offenders again.

It's making it easier for citizens to find them and police to track them. It's making certain areas - within 1,000 feet from a school - off limits when they're trying to find a place to live.

And it's going to cost them: up to $100 a year

FDA Mulls Over-the-Counter 'Morning-After Pill'
Federal health officials are debating if it's time to put emergency contraception -- also called the morning-after pill -- on pharmacy shelves right next to the aspirin, available without a prescription
Male contraceptive trial
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh want to recruit a group of men to help try out a ground-breaking new contraceptive.

Lilly's Cialis gets FDA approval
A second competitor to Viagra -- dubbed "le weekend pill" in France -- should hit the nation's pharmacies by early December.

Military adds sex charges against Muslim chaplain
The military yesterday filed charges of adultery and pornography against Army Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain, and released him after 77 days in a Navy brig

Fired ballerina Anastasia Volochkova reinstated by Bolshoi on court order
The Bolshoi Theatre said Friday it had reinstated ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who was fired amid allegations that she was too heavy and won a lawsuit to get back on the job.
The theatre said in a statement it had sent Volochkova a telegram saying that it had taken her back in accordance with Wednesday's court ruling and would pay her the wages she had missed following her dismissal.

Good Catholics wear condoms?
Claiming to counter Vatican "misinformation," a group of Catholics is launching a worldwide campaign asserting "Good Catholics Use Condoms."
The campaign will be launched in Washington, D.C., with provocative ads in the most highly traveled subway stations, then move worldwide in 2004 with newspaper and billboard ads, e-mail action alerts and educational materials.

NRA still on target with gun magazine aimed at women
The cover of the glossy magazine Woman's Outlook each month features an attractive woman in her 30s or 40s holding a gun and wearing a self-assured, welcoming smile. "Modern Day Dianas," reads one headline, referring to the Greek god of hunting. "Silk & Steel; 650 Years of Women at Arms" reads another. And this month, the cover promises a story on "The Woods-Wise Woman."

Laws to 'protect' women from fundamentalists
France is preparing new laws to protect women from Islamic fundamentalism, the country's prime minister announced.
"The legislative decision that we will choose will be good if it protects all women from all the constraints of fundamentalism," Raffarin told his Union for a Presidential Majority party congress yesterday in the town of Villepinte, according to United Press International.

Boy punished for talking about gay mom
A 7-year-old boy was scolded and forced to write "I will never use the word 'gay' in school again" after he told a classmate about his lesbian mother, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.

Affirmative action backers push for Connerly's ouster
Defeating the racial privacy initiative was only a start for the detractors of California businessman Ward Connerly. Now his foes are mounting a petition drive to remove Mr. Connerly from the University of California Board of Regents.
Mr. Connerly authored California's failed Proposition 54, an initiative to ban the collection of race data by the state, which was defeated by a 2-to-1 margin in the October gubernatorial-recall election.

False Issue
What in the world is all this flap and hullabaloo about homosexual marriage licenses? Who cares?
This is another of those inconsequential red-herring issues designed to distract you while the politicians steal the country right out from under you. You had better worry about why one euro costs $1.19 rather than whether two homosexuals can get a piece of paper at the county courthouse

Naked-sushi arguments full of holes
Seattle is now an equal-opportunity objectification city.
Not only can you eat sushi off naked women at the Bonzai restaurant every Saturday night - now you can eat it off naked men, too!

Using Statistics to Subvert NCLB
The goals of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act are clear enough: Zero children left behind, with 100 percent proficiency in 12 years.
But while federal officials repeatedly affirm those goals, some states are undermining the clarity of the NCLB accountability framework by applying statistical tests that essentially say, “It all depends what you mean by zero, 100 percent, and any number in between.”

The science of flirting
Lingering looks across a crowded room. The glance that lasts a second longer than it should. Some are natural flirts; others freeze. Lisa Mitchell gets some tips from an expert

Gun permit applicants increasingly are women
Even after working several years as a prison guard, Twanda McCurry never felt the need to carry a gun for protection outside of work, and especially not after she went into a new business as an office manager at a bottling plant.

Men prefer cuddles to sex: study
HOLDING hands and cuddling are rated more highly than sex by the average American guy, a new survey claimed today.

The survey found 31 per cent of respondents believed "emotional intimacy" was what American men most wanted in a romantic liaison

Senegal Program Eradicating FGM
Some 2 million women around the world are subject to female genital mutilation every year. Now, a program is set to eradicate the custom in Senegal and is likely to be replicated elsewhere in Africa.

New Version of Nuremberg Files Yanked off Web
An Internet service provider yanked a threatening anti-choice Web site in late November as Women's eNews was investigating its latest incarnation. If the site resurfaces, some see a fresh round of legal battles

Some Gifts Go Beyond Gender-Rigid Kiddie Aisles
The "pink aisle" can be a dispiriting place for holiday shoppers looking for a girl's present that doesn't buy into gender stereotypes. Elizabeth Bauchner takes a look at what's on toy shelves, what it means for girls and what we can give them instead.

Web Offers Holiday Gifts Made by Rural Women
From botanical soaps made in New Hampshire to leather pouches made by the Lakota in South Dakota, the Web offers an abundance of holiday presents made by rural women and brought to e-commerce by nonprofit groups.

Court Upholds Contraceptive Coverage; Osteoporosis Risk
The New York State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the Catholic Church seeking to exempt some employers from having to include contraceptives as part of the package of prescription drugs they offer employees
Fracture treatments for older women often fail to detect osteoporosis, the debilitating condition that results in brittle bones.
According to a study published in the December issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, treatments of fractures in older women often do not follow the clinical guidelines for treating osteoporosis.

Iran Girl's Murder Spurs Debate over Blood Money
The case of a murdered 11-year-old-girl has focused attention on "blood money" provisions in Iranian law that value a woman's life at half that of a man's. Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is arguing the case for the victim's family.

Women Demand Role in Trade Talks
As trade talks between the United States and developing countries heat up, women's groups are insisting that official attention be paid to the effects of trade pacts on women

Laughing with the First Woman to Swim the Channel
Our correspondent recalls a buoyant afternoon spent with Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, seven years ago. Ederle died Nov. 30, at the age of 98.

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