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December 14, 2003 10:20 AM posted by lisa : track it (0)

8-Year-Old to Be
In Sex Offender Program
An 8-year-old boy accused of fondling four female classmates will be the youngest participant in Wayne County's sex offender rehabilitation program, prosecutors said.
The boy, who was not identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and no contest to a felony assault charge. He was sentenced Wednesday.

Bush faces new enemy:
Sexy American babes
If there's any truth to the belief "Sex sells," then President Bush could have an additional political enemy to deal with in the upcoming election year: American babes.
A group of scantily clad Michigan women calling themselves "Babes Against Bush" is joining forces to strip the commander in chief from office and have some fun in the process

Council Tackles ‘Potty Parity’ Bill
Potty parity. Squatters rights.
Go ahead, make fun of the fact that several City Council members introduced a bill Wednesday to have more restrooms set aside for women.
Why? Because females take longer, explained Yvette Clarke, who dubbed the legislation the "Restroom Equity Bill."

Lesbians locked in custody dispute
The parents hurled accusations at each other in a two-day trial to determine who would get custody of the boy they love.
They accused each other of kidnapping the child. They haggled over everything from his dental hygiene to whether he should have a hyphen between his last names. One parent even hired a private investigator to sift through the other's garbage. In other words, it was as cruel, calculated and contentious as many child-custody trials.

GI to Be Discharged for Marrying Iraqi
An American soldier has been reprimanded and will be discharged for taking a break from a foot patrol in Baghdad to marry an Iraqi woman, his lawyer said Monday

Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure!
"Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers. They hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam post 9-11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do, they don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."

Deadbeat Web site planned
Mug shots of deadbeat parents will be posted on a government Web site to locate those who have ignored court-ordered child support, Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday.
The provincial auditor's report yesterday criticized the government's handling of the Family Responsibility Office (FRO), which is charged with seeing that former spouses and their children get the money they are owed.
"(The government) is going to post the name and pictures of those we can't locate ... as they have done in Alberta, so we can help track them down, and we've also made a commitment to suspend (driver's) licences for those we have contacted ... (who) still refuse to make their payments," McGuinty said.

Mayor facing legal action for banning gays
A controversial Brazilian mayor is being sued by human rights workers after he signed a decree banning homosexuals from living in his town.
Mayor Elcio Berti, of Bocaivua do Sul, said he decided to act after hearing an interview with a gay man who wanted to live in the town.

NAACP accused of rigging affirmative-action case
A conservative black group has accused the NAACP of rigging a landmark court decision on affirmative action.
The African-American leadership network Project 21 filed a complaint yesterday with the Virginia State Bar asking it to investigate NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. president and director-counsel Elaine Jones for "unethical influence in shaping constitutional cases."

Researchers fake AIDS study data
Three Maryland researchers have admitted fabricating interviews with teenagers for a study on AIDS prevention that received more than $1 million in federal funds.

Judge: 'Gay'-diversity week violated rights of Christian
A federal judge in Detroit has upheld the constitutional right of a Christian student to express her religious beliefs in opposition to homosexuality during her high school's 2002 "Diversity Week" program.
The case involved a federal lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm, on behalf of student Betsy Hansen, whose religious views against homosexuality were censored and excluded from the program held at Ann Arbor's Pioneer High School.

Navy Alumni Group Rejects Gay Chapter
The governing board of the Naval Academy Alumni Association on Friday unanimously rejected a bid by 32 graduates to establish the first official gay and lesbian alumni chapter of any U.S. service academy.
The board of trustees released a memorandum saying they denied the application because it was based too specifically on a special interest, its membership would be too exclusive, and it wasn't centered on a geographical area.

Female Med School Applicants Surpass Men
For the first time ever, women outnumbered men among applicants this fall to the nation's medical schools — a milestone in the slow but steady increase in the number of aspiring female doctors.
Nearly 35,000 men and women applied for the 2003-04 school year, a 3.4 percent increase over last year and the first increase since 1996. More than 17,600 of the applicants — or 50.8 percent — were women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Semi-automatic stinkers
A small posse of sheriff's deputies in California has unleashed a new weapon in the war on crime.
It is remarkably small, improbably inexpensive, stunningly low-tech and for the past seven months has proved incredibly effective. So effective, in fact, that Shaun Mathers of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department wonders why more departments have not realised that such a tool might be right under their noses

Some YWCA Chapters Bring in Men to Lead
Convinced that the mandatory policy of women-only leadership is no longer sound, some of the YWCA's most vibrant affiliates are taking steps to admit men as members and directors — a challenge that could either transform or fracture the 145-year-old organization.

Schools, liability, and sexual harassment
Two hours before she would be stabbed to death during sixth period, a lawsuit contends, Ortralla Mosley complained to teachers at Reagan High School that her ex-boyfriend was becoming increasingly violent with her and that she was worried about her safety.
That suit, filed in Austin last week, says school officials knew of Marcus McTear's violence with girls but were "deliberately indifferent." Now Ortralla's mother, Carolyn, is suing the Austin Independent School District for wrongful death under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in public schools. She seeks $23 million in damages.

Dad sues to teach daughter about polygamy
But she doesn't want him teaching their 10-year-old daughter, Kaylynne, about the practice or exposing her to it in any way. She's won her point in a lower court but now her ex-husband, Stanley M. Shepp, has taken the case to the state Supreme Court.

Public heaps scorn on male victims of abusive women
There has been much public snickering about David Gest's $10-million lawsuit against his estranged wife, Liza Minnelli, in which he claims she beat him. Whether the suit is rooted in truth or in greed, its existence opens the door for a public discussion about our society's disquieting and pervasive problem of abusive women.

The Bible’s Lost Stories
year’s surprise “it” girl is the star of a mega best seller, a hot topic on campuses and rumored to be the “special friend” of a famous and powerful man. Yet she’s still very much a woman of mystery. For close to 2,000 years, Christians have known her as Mary Magdalene, but she was probably named Miriam, and came from the fishing village of Magdala. Most people today grew up believing she was a harlot saved by Jesus. But the Bible never says that. Scholars working with ancient texts now believe she was one of Christ’s most devoted followers, perhaps even his trusted confidante and financial backer.

The State vs. Midwives
Karen Hunter, a Maryland midwife, was delivering a thirteen pound baby boy on December 19, 1994. Things began well, but anticipation turned to grief when a life-threatening complication arose and the baby went into cardiac arrest. Every expectant parent's worst nightmare was realized when the infant died. Karen Hunter was arrested

Child abuse, Cajun-style
I have a confession to make: I am a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
That doesn't mean I always agree with that bunch of lefties. Concerned about the easy access for children, for example, I never bought into their broad defense of pornography on the Internet. But I stood up and applauded when they forced Roy Moore to move his monument to the Ten Commandments out of the Alabama state courthouse.

Women rock the casbah
Loubna Haddad was at her home in Damascus, watching TV with her grandmother. Suddenly Elissa, a Lebanese pop star with inflated lips, shrunken outfits, and sultry looks, popped on the small screen and outraged the old woman.

Divorcées and Social Engineers
It is now a truth more or less universally acknowledged that children are better off when they have fathers and when their fathers are actively involved in their lives. But where do we go from there? Should the government be promoting fatherhood, marriage, and two-parent families? Or should it simply get out of the way and stop hindering fathers who want to do right by their children? The debate has pitted fathers’ rights activists against advocates for marriage and "responsible fatherhood."

Criminalizing Motherhood
Regina McKnight is doing twelve years in prison for a stillbirth, carving out a dangerous intersection between the drug war and the antichoice movement. In the eyes of the South Carolina Attorney General's office, McKnight committed murder.
Her crime? Giving birth to a five-pound, stillborn baby. As McKnight grieved and held her third daughter Mercedes's lifeless body, she could never have imagined that she was about to become the first woman in America convicted for murder by using cocaine while pregnant.

Sex in the Chinese city
A succession of "kiss and tell" books and "one-night stand" diaries, full of what officials call pornographic detail, have both fascinated and shocked Chinese readers in recent months, marking the emergence of the topic of sex out of the closet.

Long a social taboo, sex has somewhat overnight become a boldly public subject, drawing attention from university auditoriums to press rooms and publishing houses. Scholars on sexology and sociology have just unveiled their list of China's "top 10 sex-related news stories in 2003" and announced that they will make their evaluation an annual event.

National NOW Young Feminist Task Force
The membership of NOW voted in July 2003 to create a permanent task force of young feminists aged 30 or under, appointed by the president of NOW, to advise on matters of agenda, leadership recruitment and issue prioritization regarding young feminists in the organization. The board unanimously confirmed these appointments at its meeting in Bethesda, Md. in Oct. 2003.

Arrests of Female Teens for Violent Crime Grow
As more female U.S. teens are being detained for violent offenses, researchers are wondering if they really are more violent. Those who work with the offenders also talk about what can--but often isn't--being done to help them

Midwives Popular, But More Forced out of Business
Even as demand for midwives increases in the United States, many are being forced out of business, leaving pregnant women with fewer options

In Age of AIDS, Condom Wars Take Deadly Toll
The Vatican's anti-contraception campaign--which has an ally in the White House--has just been blocked by a New York court. In places such as Kenya--where HIV is rampant and the Catholic Church has sponsored condom burnings--the effect is ruinous.

Historians Working to Place Women's Sites on the Map
A small group of female historians is taking steps to tell the often overlooked story of women's history in America. They aim to do that by identifying, restoring and promoting historical sites affiliated with notable women in American history

Kentucky Women's Commission Faces Ax
The Kentucky Commission on Women is in danger of losing its funding with the appointment of a new governor and two bills pending in the state legislature. The commission has released a report on ways to improve the lives of women in Kentucky

Women Play Major Roles in Middle East Film Industry
Women in the Middle East have been involved in filmmaking since 1926, when a female director gave Arab cinema its first feature-length film. Today, they struggle past censorship and shallow comedies to get their stories heard.

Feminists Meet Prostitutes
In the 1970s, feminists were prone to disrupting all-male groups considering legislation affecting women and insisting that they hear from actual women.
In 1971, the question on the table in New York City was prostitution, which some liberals sought to make legal. Demonstrators interrupted a legislative committee hearing to argue against legalizing what, in Susan Brownmiller's words, was not a victimless crime.

Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer fighting for the rights of women, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday, calling her selection for the award an "inspiration" to women around the world.
"Undoubtedly, my selection will be an inspiration to the masses of women who are striving to realize their rights, not only in Iran, but throughout the region--rights taken away from them through the passage of history," Ebadi said at the awards ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
The National Association for Female Executives Tuesday released a survey indicating that on average, women's wages across 21 fields lag far behind men's. According to the survey, from 1991-2001, the wage gap between men and women closed by less than 2 percent--at this rate, women's wages will draw even with men's by the year 2123, or 120 years from now.

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