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women's issues stories: 171 news summaries

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 Forget Comfort Food: 
 We Shun It in Turmoil 

Studies suggest we don't seek solace in the familiar

Aug 25, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conventional wisdom has it that when we face big changes, we look to the familiar to get us through—whether it’s comfort food or music we’ve loved for years. But new studies suggest the opposite is true, that “change begets change,” in the words of one... More »

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food • study • research • psychology • human behavior • change • women's issues

 Help—I'm Jealous 
 of My Own Kid! 

Dads wrestle with idea that youngsters have it better than they did

Aug 25, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’re trying to give your kids the best: karate lessons, top schools, the latest video games. “You couldn't be prouder, really,” writes Christopher Noxon in Details, until “it hits you: you’re jealous.” Your childhood was never this good, and now, as your kid expands... More »

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fatherhood • parenting • father • son • women's issues

 The Healthiest 
 Ways to Watch TV 

Mehmet Oz gives his top 4 tips

Aug 25, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. Mehmet Oz is getting a new show starting Sept. 14, inspiring Esquire to ask Oprah’s favorite physician how to watch the tube in the healthiest way possible. His recommendations:
  1. Drink water—Take advantage of the opportunity: you won’t mind its blandness when your focus is elsewhere.
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television • health • health tips • women's issues • Mehmet Oz

(Newser) - Women with higher testosterone levels may be more likely to seek out riskier careers, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Chicago tested the testosterone levels of 500 graduate business students, then tracked their post-graduation career moves. Ultimately 36% of women went into high-risk financial careers, and... More »

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women • study • testosterone • career • risk-taking • women's issues

(Newser) - Americans eat more than twice as much added sugar as doctors recommend, and they should cut back to battle obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease, researchers say. Added calories from processed sugar should total no more than 150 for men and 100 for women, the American Heart Association said today.... More »

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obesity • nutrition • hypertension • diabetes • obesity epidemic • heart disease • diet • sugar • American Heart Association • high blood pressure • women's issues • Sugar Association

(Newser) - Families are traveling more often, and recession-battered hotels are ramping up their kid-friendly offerings, the Boston Globe reports. Rooms occupied by families with children accounted for 27% of the total in 2008, up from 25% in 2004, and lodgings are watching the trend. Whether it's free Wii, a dog... More »

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travel • children • parents • recession • promotion • vacation • hotel • hospitality • women's issues • kids • lodging • hotel industry

(Newser) - In showing that it has the stomach to use plus-sized models in its pages, Glamour has provoked a torrent of positive reader reaction, blogger Margaret notes on Jezebel. A photo of a woman with a bit of a gut hanging over her underwear accompanied a story in the September issue,... More »

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entertainment • weight • body image • Glamour magazine • women's issues • models • Cindi Leive • Lizzi Miller

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Linked to 32 Deaths

Teen-targeted Gardasil also tied to blood clots, fainting in gov't study

Aug 19, 09 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine marketed to teen girls, has been linked to 32 deaths and other serious side effects including fainting and blood clots, according to a government report released yesterday. Since 2006, several complications of the vaccine have been reported, ABC News reports, ranging from neurological disorders to... More »

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Merck • HPV • cervical cancer • Gardasil • blood clots • vaccine • side effects • women's issues

OPINION

 It's Time to Start 
 Taking Hillary Seriously 

She's still trivialized as she fights to empower women

Aug 13, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s trip to Congo was meant to help fulfill a promise to focus on women’s issues, but it seems to have turned on one woman's issues. Though “there could have been no more dramatic setting,” writes Judith Warner in the New York Times, “back... More »

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Hillary Clinton • women • women's rights • State Department • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • beer • Congo • Dana Milbank • women's issues

OPINION

 How Recession 
 Could Kill Chick Lit 

Fluffy novels 'must respond to a more sober age'

Aug 11, 09 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world of chick lit is populated with material concerns and hefty price tags—but in today’s battered economy, such themes may no longer resonate, writes author Sarah Bilston for DoubleX. Her latest book's “cheery consumerism and aimless career-dithering were clearly out of touch in a world of... More »

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literature • publishing • chick lit • book • Confessions of a Shopaholic • women's issues

health care town hall

 Obama Takes On Rationing,  
 'Death Panel' Rumors 


Aug 11, 09 1:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama took the stage in New Hampshire today to set the record straight about Democratic health care reform efforts. Though the crowd was all applause, Obama took on the raucous protests that have characterized recent town halls. “Let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations,... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • health insurance • rationing • health care reform • town hall meeting • women's issues • death panel • deathers

Faith Groups Rally Behind Obama on Health Reform

Plan rallies, webcast, 55,000 messages to Congress

Aug 11, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Religious groups are coming to President Obama’s aid in selling health care reform, backing expanded care through a 40-day campaign promoting the moral argument for reform, CBS News reports. Prayer vigils and rallies will take place in 45 cities today to send a message to Capitol Hill. Later this... More »

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Congress • rally • faith • webcast • health care reform • President Obama • women's issues

OPINION

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

Optimistic Women Face Lower Heart Disease Risk

Subjects less likely to die of any cause over set period

Aug 11, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women 50 and up who see the glass as half full have a lower risk of getting heart disease—or dying of any cause—than their half-empty peers, a study suggests. Researchers found that over 8 years, the most optimistic subjects in their 97,000-woman-strong study faced a 9% lower... More »

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health • women • heart disease • psychology • optimism • health research • health study • postmenopausal women • attitudes • women's issues

(Newser) - Three years after retiring from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor is still on the bench—in federal appellate courts across the country, where the high court's first woman justice has quietly been filling in as a substitute judge. O'Connor has heard nearly 80 cases and written more than a... More »

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Sandra Day O'Connor • US Circuit Court of Appeals • US Supreme Court • justices • appellate court • women's issues

(AP) - Hillary Clinton traveled to war-ravaged eastern Congo today, where the nation's top diplomat demanded an end to the sexual violence that has claimed at least 200,000 victims. Clinton came to Goma aboard a UN plane over the objections of some top aides who were concerned about security and logistics... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Africa • rape • civil war • Democratic Republic of Congo • sexual violence • Goma • Congo • women's issues

(Newser) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 88-year-old sister of John F. Kennedy and the founder of the Special Olympics, died at Cape Cod Hospital early today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Shriver had been in critical condition for a week. Inspired by the struggles of her mentally disabled sister Rosemary, Shriver spent... More »

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John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • death • Cape Cod • Special Olympics • women's issues • Eunice Shriver

 US Grads Turn to China 


Aug 11, 09 5:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Large numbers of American graduates shut out of the job market at home are turning to the East for opportunities, the New York Times reports. A surge of young Americans have left to try their luck in Shanghai and Beijing in recent years, attracted by the strong economy and the... More »

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China • entrepreneurs • Beijing • Shanghai • expatriates • college graduates • women's issues

(Newser) - Hundreds of women marched through Kathmandu yesterday to protest a government plan to offer $600 to anybody who marries a widow, the Independent reports. The government says the scheme will help overcome social stigmas attached to widowhood, but the women say it is insulting and warn that it will lead... More »

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women • protests • Nepal • human trafficking • widows • women's issues

 Suu Kyi Found Guilty 

Myanmar democracy activist gets another 18 months house arrest

Aug 11, 09 3:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty of violating a security law because an American swam to her house, and will again be placed in house detention for at least another 18 months, Reuters reports. The court handed down a sentence of three years hard labor,... More »

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house arrest • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • military junta • John Yettaw • women's issues

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