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‘Wonder Woman’ on TV? CW is redeveloping series for ‘trickiest’ hero
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWill a Wonder Woman TV series ever get off the ground? The CW isn't giving up yet. The network had […]... -
Katie Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth survive 'Black Rock'
The premise is familiar: Three young women on a camping trip find themselves under siege from three unhinged attackers and fight back. But what happens in “Black Rock” is unexpected, as rather than a more typical story of female empowerment...
Tags: Celebrities, Human Interest, Dax Shepard, Entertainment, Sundance Film Festival
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Tunisia, hardline Islamists in standoff over Sunday gathering
Reuters* Government bans radical Islamist group from gathering * Ansar al-Sharia vows to convene "conference" anyway * U.S. embassy warns citizens to avoid city of Kairouan By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 17 (Reuters) - Tunisia's government on Friday barred the...Tags: Tunisia, U.S. Embassy, Tunisian Revolution (2010-2011), Al-Qaeda
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Human Rights Watch advocate Cynthia Brown dead at 60
Reuters(Reuters) - Cynthia Brown, who played a key role for Human Rights Watch for almost two decades, has died after a battle with cancer, the global advocacy group said. She was 60 years old. Brown, who joined the organization in 1982 as a researcher and...Tags: International Law, Justice and Rights, New York City, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Plantation doctor aims to help abused women in India
Little girls as young as 4 attacked, brutalized, even killed. A female college student gangraped on a moving bus. Women of all ages ravaged and disfigured by relatives and strangers alike. In India, women have increasingly become targets of unbridled...
Tags: Plastic Surgery, Abusive Behavior, Plantation, Hospitals and Clinics, Cosmetic Procedures
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Women can't be president in Iran, senior cleric says
TEHRAN — Iran’s next president will not be a woman. No surprise there, but a senior religious figure, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, made it official in comments Wednesday to a group of clerics and theology students, according to the conservative...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Pakistan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Elections, Iran
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Topless protest disrupts opening of Barbie house in Berlin
ReutersBERLIN (Reuters) - Women's rights protesters disrupted the opening of a giant pink doll's house in Berlin on Thursday, saying the Barbie "Dreamhouse Experience" objectified women. Promoting the doll made by Mattel Inc, the house allows paying visitors to...Tags: Barbie (fictional character), Mattel Inc., Sunrise (Broward, Florida), Marketing, Toy Industry
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Two sets of rules in the city
I spoke at City Council on March 12 and March 19 regarding the gender discrimination and ethnic bigotry that are alive and well in Glendale. Witness the council meeting of March 12, when council member Laura Friedman reported that a person appointed...Tags: Local Elections, Minority Groups
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Marcelyn J. 'Marcy' Henrikson, 1934-2013
Marcy Henrikson was a supporter of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and marched for women's rights in the 1970s. But she wasn't proud of her initial reaction 30 years ago when she learned her teenage daughter was lesbian, her family said. She...
Tags: Justice and Rights, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Crime, Law and Justice, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Civil Rights
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Segregated Battle Creek exhibit on display in June to show city's divisions
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — An exhibit coming to Battle Creek aims to show that when it comes to segregation, the city is similar to Detroit. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports ( http://bcene.ws/ZZ4dSd ) that the Women's Co-op is hosting "We Don't... -
Family values and the new economy
My mother went into paid work soon after my father's clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work....
Tags: Labor Legislation, Robert B. Reich, Career and Workplace
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Doctoring in a family way
Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Abortion, Birth Control, Health Insurance, Drugs and Medicines
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