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Black women are less vulnerable than white women to reacting negatively if they don’t match the beauty ideals pervading prime-time television shows and magazines, according to two studies.
With the introduction of women’s wrestling in the Olympics–the only new sport to be added to this summer’s games–there is hope among women and wrestling coaches that the sport will receive more attention at both the high school and college level.
Anti-choice activists are flocking to the Internet in a pervasive and sometimes illegal attempt to bring attention to their cause.
More e-mail inboxes are flooded with sexually explicit spam, yet most agree little can be done to limit the annoyance. To date, lawmakers, lobby groups and Internet service providers have not be able to reach agreement on preventative tactics.
An advertising and poster campaign attacking pro-choice Catholic senators alarms those who see it as a dangerous echo of the notorious “The Deadly Dozen” campaign of 1995.
In a groundbreaking ruling, a New York appellate court awarded a divorced couple’s entire assets–$17 million–to the wife because she suffered egregious violence at the hands of her then-husband.
The reopening of the notorious Central Park jogger rape case is bringing renewed attention to the backlog of rape evidence kits that haven’t been evaluated–and the implications of such delays for victims.