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06/11/10--15:30: Oil Disaster: Children Need the Straight Story -- How to Give It (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


Encouraging questions, performing simple experiments, putting the disaster in perspective: all are ways we can help kids process the disaster.

 

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06/18/10--11:10: World Naked Bike Ride: Save the Environment, Diet in Style (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Environment, Woman Up, Transportation


I am pledging to replace at least seven short trips each week that I would ordinarily take via car, with a bicycle, and I'm planning to lose weight while I'm at it.

 

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06/28/10--15:40: Female Sex Pill: For Loss of Libido, or Drug Companies' Bottom Line? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up, Culture


Some women may benefit from a desire pill, but it seems possible that many others might be pressured into taking the drug or convince themselves that they require it.

 

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07/08/10--11:00: The Desire Pill Controversy: Whose Body Is It, Anyway? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Health Care, Woman Up


Female sexual desire is complicated and multifaceted, and developing a pill to "treat" it could mask other issues that diminish libido.

 

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07/19/10--13:30: Steinbrenner Tributes: Honoring a Winner -- or the Ruthless Pursuit of Winning? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


The accolades bestowed upon the late Yankees owner -- including flying flags at half-staff -- overlook the harm he did to a sport that will never be the same.

 

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08/01/10--21:00: The American Disabilities Act, and a Fall That Opened My Eyes (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up, Medicine


As the ADA turns 20, disability is often still seen as a personal problem that an individual struggles to negotiate in a world of "normal" people, rather than a social or political issue.

 

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08/16/10--21:00: 'Beauty Bloggers' and the Exploited Women of Juarez: An Outcry (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up, International


MAC/Rodarte's new cosmetics line trivialized the lives of women struggling in Ciudad Juarez. Bloggers pressured firms to make changes.

 

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08/20/10--17:00: MAC Cosmetics Pulls Ghoulish Juarez-Factory Makeup Collection (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Crime, Culture


More than 400 women have been murdered or abducted in the violent factory town. Bloggers criticized MAC's "Sleepwalker" eye shadow and other Juarez-inspired products as exploitative and insensitive.

 

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09/13/10--21:30: Are Health Care Reporters Biased When Drug Makers Pay for Training? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


Critics say journalism training financed by pharmaceutical companies represents a serious threat to the ethical standards of the profession.

 

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09/16/10--08:00: Should I Defend Obama for Writing a Children's Book? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up, Barack Obama


As conservative ideologues rail against Obama for "exploiting" his daughters by writing a children's book, liberals must resist taking the non-issue bait and focus instead on real concerns.

 

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09/29/10--12:50: Ladies, Want a Career in Science? Want to Have a Family? Pick One (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


Many science professionals still harbor unconscious bias when it comes to females in laboratories and classrooms, research suggests.

 

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10/08/10--10:24: Infertility, IVF and Robert Edwards' Nobel Prize: A Thorny Issue Comes to the Fore (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


Robert Edwards' pioneering work in addressing fertility got some long-overdue recognition this week, but as a society we still haven't come to terms to the issues IVF left unsettled.

 

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10/11/10--21:00: The Simpsons are Lampooned (Unsuccessfully) on Their Own Show (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


A couch gag sequence by the British graffiti artist and activist Banksy lampoons worker exploitation, human rights violations, environmental abuse, animal cruelty and mass production.

 

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10/25/10--10:46: Should Women Stop Apologizing So Much? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


The Ginni Thomas-Anita Hill episode raises a larger issue about apologies: Women offer them far more than men, often when they're not even called for. And doing so denigrates the language and ourselves.

 

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11/05/10--19:00: Bono Brings the $1,600 Handbag to Africa (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


Shooting an ad for Louis Vuitton on the world's poorest continent? The Dublin-born rocker may have been well-intentioned at one time, but he's clearly lost his way.

 

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11/20/10--20:00: Genetically Engineered Salmon: FDA Says It's Safe, but Consumers Say 'No Way' (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


The FDA is poised to put the first genetically engineered salmon on our dinner plates, even though 91 percent of the public feel it shouldn't be allowed in the marketplace.

 

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12/08/10--19:00: Weed Among the Ivy? Columbia University Students Held on Drug Charges (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Crime, Woman Up


Undercover officers said they made purchases totaling $11,000 for drugs, including cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, Adderall and LSD.

 

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12/25/10--20:00: U.S. Scientists Top Research-Fraud List -- How Concerned Should We Be? (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Scandal, Investigations, Health Care, Obama Administration, Woman Up, Medicine


A recent report reveals a troubling trend in erroneous -- and falsified -- research data. Some say the numbers don't tell the whole story, and are really signs that weak science gets weeded out.

 

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02/27/11--19:15: Guns and Death: A Love Story (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Woman Up


In grief and in weaponry, there is something called recoil. It cannot be controlled. People say experiencing it gets easier with time. It is what made the author, shooting a gun for the first time, think about the loss of her father.

 

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03/10/11--19:09: Participatory Budgeting: In a Chicago Ward, Residents Call the Spending Shots (chan 1701632)

Filed under: Budget, Woman Up, International


The exercise in democracy, happening in more than 1,200 cities around the world, lets ordinary people directly decide how a portion of their municipal budget is spent.

 

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