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The FDA’s recent expansion of gastric-banding weight-loss surgery to millions more Americans could burden the nation’s E.R. with complications that patients discuss in online forums, such as vomiting and abdominal pain. The third of three stories.
Letterman and Polanski are in different quandaries, but Sandra Kobrin says they both benefit from Hollywood’s allegiance to letting powerful men get away with exploiting younger women.
A new book, “Too Close for Comfort,” about mothers and older daughters revisits age-old themes and offers updated cautions for the era of the electronic “supermoms.”
This is the first in a series on the women toiling at Ground Zero in the ashes of the World Trade Center. The women profiled are helping the city recover and rebuild–police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, construction workers. They are us.
The international conference on racism has largely overlooked sexism and how the intersection of racism with gender bias can be doubly debilitating for women of color around the world. A handful of women reminded world leaders not to ignore gender.