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April 25, 2004 10:42 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Names of mountain, creek and gulch in Bozeman area changed
It's taken nearly five years, but Squaw Creek south of here now has a new name — Storm Castle Creek.
Two other features on the Gallatin National Forest — Squaw Peak and Squaw Gulch — also have been renamed.

‘‘Squaw Peak is now Morningstar Peak,'' said Jackie Riley, cartographer for the forest. The gulch is now Travois Gulch.

San Francisco selling its list of married gays
San Francisco, which ignited a passionate nationwide debate by allowing thousands of gays to marry earlier this year, is selling its list of the newlyweds, the mayor said on Monday.
"They're public documents already and I think they're selling for cost," Mayor Gavin Newsom told Reuters in a short interview at the opening home game of the San Francisco Giants. "What we had is the first few weeks is people going down by hand and writing them out. We said we'll put them together for you." The list will sell for $65.

Shanghai eases second baby ban
As the most crowded city in the world's most populous country, Shanghai may seem like an unlikely starting place for a relaxation of China's controversial one-child policy. But that is exactly what has happened.
The municipal government said on Tuesday that divorcees who remarry would be allowed a second baby. Experts said this was likely to foreshadow similar steps across the country, as local authorities begin to realise the financial and social costs of birth quotas will soon outweigh the benefits.

Prosecutor: Transgender Teen 'Executed'
The killing of a transgender teen was cold-blooded murder carried out by three men furious they had been deceived by a beautiful girl who turned out to be biologically male, a prosecutor told a jury as their trial opened Wednesday.
"They decided ... that the wages of Eddie Araujo's sin of deception were death," prosecutor Chris Lamiero said.

Doctor held for 'sex tourism'
An American doctor has been arrested on federal charges of allegedly travelling to Russia to have sex with young boys, the US Attorney's office said Tuesday.

Sex change ruling for teen may 'go too far': PM
Prime Minister John Howard said today he was seeking further advice in relation to a Family Court decision allowing a 13-year-old girl to start treatment to become a boy.
Outgoing Family Court Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson has given legal approval for the child, known as Alex, to begin a sex change through hormone treatment

Plaintiffs win suit but no money
for underage abortion
A jury Wednesday awarded no money to a woman and her father who sued an osteopath for performing an abortion while she was a minor without notifying the parent.
Ninety percent of the blame was assigned to the woman for using a fake identification indicating she was not a minor, the panel decided.
But the jury also found the doctor negligent, allowing both sides to claim victory in the first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could help determine how extensively physicians should verify the identification of women seeking abortions.

Spain's New Government to Legalize Gay Marriage
Spain will legalize homosexual marriages and grant equal rights to gay couples, incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Thursday.
The move is likely to stir controversy in one of Europe's most Catholic countries as the Vatican condemns same-sex unions and homosexuality was banned under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

Saudi presenter shows beaten face
A TV presenter who says she was beaten by her husband has allowed newspapers to show pictures of her swollen face to highlight domestic abuse

Adult film industry shuts down
Much of the San Fernando Valley's multibillion-dollar adult-movie business stopped production Thursday as it banned nearly four dozen actors and actresses from working after two tested positive for the AIDS virus, industry officials said.
Companies that churn out movies in what is estimated to be a $9 billion to $13 billion industry took a cautionary approach to the scare, which was revealed by the health agency that the industry created several years ago as part of its self-policing of sexually transmitted diseases.

Seized Web Servers Raise Freedom Concerns
For $9.95 a month, a small company offered access to a search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of "uncensored" movies and photographs and serve up "an all-you-can-eat taste of 'the Internet gone wild!'"
Voicenet Communications executives said they didn't know users also were using their system to access child pornography until January, when authorities seized the computer servers that ran their "QuikVue" search program, a lawyer for the company said.

THE FIST WIVES CLUB
SCOTLAND has been hit by an alarming rise in domestic violence against men by WOMEN, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
With girl power sending out a message that aggression is the only way to succeed, more wives and girlfriends are venting their feelings through force.
Domestic violence against men has risen 81 per cent since 1999, Scottish Executive figures reveal

Bush mobilizes women
GEORGE W. BUSH didn't seek office hoping to launch a new wave of the women's movement. But the president has angered so many girls and women that he has helped mobilize a national march to protect women's rights.
On Sunday, April 25, an expected 1 million marchers will stream into the streets of the nation's capital for what is billed as the "March for Women's Lives." The last large pro-choice march drew 750,000 people in 1992.
Quotes From the Women's March in D.C.
Older Women Abused as Often as Younger Ones: Study
Women in their 50s and beyond report suffering physical and verbal abuse at a rate similar to that of younger women, a large U.S. study shows.
The study of nearly 92,000 women ages 50 to 79 found that at the outset 10,200 said they had been abused sometime in the past year. Three years later, over 2,400 more women reported newly suffering abuse, according to findings published in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

TV Abortion Footage Stirs Debate in Britain
British filmmaker behind what is being billed as the first pictures of an abortion ever shown on television defended her documentary Monday as a powerful stimulus to moral debate. "My Fetus," to be broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 on Tuesday, includes footage of an abortion being conducted on a woman who is four weeks pregnant, as well as images of aborted fetuses that are 10, 11 and 21 weeks old.

Bank of America Sued by Executive on Gender Bias
A Bank of America Corp. foreign exchange executive featured in a recent movie about women on Wall Street has sued the No. 2 bank, alleging gender discrimination, court papers show.
The executive, Kimberley Euston, 33, alleged that men were unfairly promoted to managing director ahead of her and that the bank's maternity leave policy is weaker than policies at comparable institutions.

Separation of Sex and State
The number of state laws against sexual conduct between consenting adults is absurd. How heavily these laws are followed and policed depend upon the state you reside in. Ironically, many Americans tend to hold strong convictions in the right to own private property but heavily crusade against the kind of sex that property owners choose to have on it. This double standard is nothing less than immoral and dangerous; people get angry when they can't make their own choices on their own property

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Annie get your gun. Buy one. Learn how to use it. Educate yourself about guns through women's gun organizations like Armed Females of America and the Second Amendment Sisters. As for John Lawman, its time women's organizations begin having a friendly chat with their local sheriff who is the highest law enforcement officer in your county. It's time these public servants understand that women have had it with being victims and we will carry a gun, period. Calling 9-11 and waiting for the posse to arrive can cost a life. By the time well meaning officers do show up, you've been hauled off by some animal and that's the last anyone will see of you unless your body is discovered. Most of them aren't.

Women will pay more for Euro sex laws
Everyone will have to pay more for insurance because of a European directive on sex discrimination in goods and services.
Instead of women gaining on some forms of insurance and men gaining on others, both will have to pay for the increased uncertainty insurers will face.

A Car by Women: No Pink, but Headrest Fits a Ponytail
The Volvo Y.C.C. will be the public relations coup of the New York International Auto Show next month if its debut at the recent Geneva show is any guide. The reason is easy to understand. For an old-fashioned metal-bashing industry dominated by men, any car created entirely by women is bound to be of special interest.
Executives of Volvo's rivals sniped that excluding men from the design amounted to discrimination, but the Swedish automaker insists that the Y.C.C. makes good business sense.

Jailed Women's Abuse is National Scandal
Last week's cases of male guards' abuse of female inmates spotlight the rampant mistreatment of many of the 180,000 women in our nation's prisons and jails. From strip searches, to pat-downs to rapes, it's an ongoing and overlooked national scandal.

Many Japanese women believe they are fat
A survey by Japan's Cabinet Office has found nearly half of Japanese women believe they are overweight.
The Japan Times reported Sunday the survey results, when compared with a similar October 2000 survey, indicates the number of women believing they are overweight has increased by 6.1 percentage points.

Women of Color Take Lead in Pro-Choice Rally
Women of color are joining and taking a leadership role in this Sunday's major rally for reproductive rights. In doing so, they have broadened the agenda to include such goals as better access to health care, day care, nutritious food and clean water.

College Students Offer Teens Frank Talk on Trauma
In a promising mental-health approach, female students at two universities are visiting high schools and talking to female teens about their personal experiences with depression, eating disorders and sexual assault

Wage Gap Is Wider for Women of Color
Minority women's earnings lag not only those of men, but also those of other women, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Authors hope the findings will fuel gender-pay policies that consider race and ethnicity.

Pro-Choice March Largest in History
More than a million pro-choice demonstrators turned out for The March for Women's Lives, making it a historic day. Speakers urged marchers to elect politicians who will safeguard women's health and reproductive rights.

Jordanian women find freedom in divorce rights
Suha had had enough of her marriage years ago, but she was unable to end it until a temporary law granted unhappily married Jordanian women their freedom.
"I reached a point when I said enough is enough, I cannot live this way any longer. My kids are older and I could not continue in that deadlock anymore," 45-year-old Suha, who ended her more than 20-year marriage a couple of years ago, said.
She was one of the first Jordanian women to benefit from "khuloe", which gives a woman the right to divorce her husband without his consent after returning his dowry and renouncing her rights to the couples' finances.

Sexually active single women urged to take pap smear tests
Penang Family Planning Association (PFPA) president Datuk Tunku Dr Ismail Jewa said single women who had multiple sex partners should get the test done early.

"Early detection can actually make a big difference, especially where cancer is concerned

comprehensive strategy to protect women
For a long time, AIDS has been seen as a disease striking mainly men. Today, over 20 years into the epidemic, women account for half of the 40 million people living with HIV worldwide. In Africa, where the epidemic is older, 60 percent of people with HIV are women. Young women aged 15 to 24 are 2.5 times more likely to be infected than young men.

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