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Retail Websites Admit They Sort Of Encourage Drunk-Buying – The Consumerist
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The Happiness Project: Making New Year’s Resolutions? Ask Yourself 6 Questions.
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…brought modern dance to the world, living with personal tragedy from childhood to the loss of her two children to her dramatic death. Read more about and from this woman who once said “What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life”: …
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A French writer who was notorious for her love affairs, smoking in public, and wearing men’s clothing, George Sand was popular in her day with artists and the intelligentsia. Her work, which often dealt with women’s lives, loves, and marriages, is fodder for today’s feminist literary analysts. Read more: …
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Western Women’s Rights Pioneer
Abigail Scott Duniway, an early settler in Oregon, established a newspaper there that supported women’s rights. She helped bring women’s suffrage to Washington and Idaho before Oregon finally granted women the vote. She also worked for married women’s property rights. Read more: …
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The Flight of Time – Godey’s Lady’s Book 1850
Godey’s Lady’s Book, for those not familiar with it, was a widely-read magazine of the 19th century, popular especially before the Civil War, that, through the images of fashion and home life, and through articles especially by literary editor Sarah Josepha Hale, set the tone for women’s role in the domestic sphere of that era.
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Unnamed civilization’s tombs found in Panama | A Blog About History – History News
This is a super interesting find: Archaeologists working in Central America have found tombs from an unnamed civilization currently known at the “Golden Chiefs”.
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languagehat.com: DOCTORS’ SLANG.
As an astringent palate-cleanser after the overindulgence of holiday dinners, may I present (courtesy of Marc Adler) a page of Doctors’ Slang, Medical Slang and Medical Acronyms, Veterinary Acronyms & Vet Slang. People with delicate sensibilities should probably not click, but if you have a dark and robust sense of humor, you should find much to enjoy.
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Video Of Little Girl Getting Pissed Off About Pink Toys Will Make Your Heart Swell
I kind of knew I would love this video when I clicked on it and I was right. I just didn’t know how much I would love it.
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What will it take to make a woman president? – In America – CNN.com Blogs
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Opponents Collect Enough Signatures to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
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Occupy Your Sidewalk With A Micro-Library – Culture – GOOD
Occupy Wall Street’s “people’s library” helped popularize the idea of book lending that takes place outside of library stacks. Now ousted from Liberty Plaza, OWS’s community library has been shuttling alternative books to New York City protests via shopping carts and other “mobile units.” Meanwhile, guerrilla librarians are occupying street corners across the country with more permanent community-curated micro-libraries.
Since 2007, alterna-lender Colin McMullan has been learning the “quirks” of city regulations to figure out how to stash free reading materials in public spaces. …
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Legal experts and reproductive health advocates say a 2005 case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights could be the “best legal recourse” for challenging HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decision to maintain age restrictions on the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step, Reuters reports.
The lawsuit charged that FDA’s refusal in 2005 to allow a two-pill version of Plan B to be sold without a prescription to women of all ages “was not supported by medical or scientific evidence.” FDA this month was set to remove the age restrictions on Plan B One-Step — a newer, one-pill version — but Sebelius overruled the agency, saying that there was not enough evidence that girls younger than age 12 could properly use the drug.
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Feds Poke Hole in Needle Exchange Funding – Miller-McCune
Despite evidence that needle exchange programs for drug users slow the spread of AIDS, the new U.S. government spending bill once again defunds such programs.
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One Laptop Per Child Redux – Miller-McCune
Declared dead just two years ago, the plan to provide every child in the developing world with a computer shows signs of life.
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Leaky Homes Show Green Intentions Gone Wrong – Miller-McCune
In another kind of housing crisis, New Zealand homes built with chemical-free wood are leaky, while their owners are up a creek.
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