"death" Articles & Blogs:
The Death Penalty Gender Gap
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Death of two troubled stars hits LA hard - A Tribute to Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson
| I don't usually comment on the life - or death - of celebrities. It's really not my thing. But our store, Wine Valet is in the heart/center of Beverly Hills and for the last hour you can see the stunned faces after the shocking news of the death of Michae...[Read on] |
Women More at Risk of Death for Certain Cardiovascular Diseases Than Men
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And more research shows that women should be on the watch for seven
symptoms of ovarian cancer so they can beat the deadly disease before
it progressesCardiovascular Disease, Ovarian Cancer | Today 10:05 am
Here’s another reason to take good care ...[Read on] |
Will This Year’s Best Actress Oscar Be a Celebrity Death Match? (Yes.)
| The Academy Award for best actress perennially ranks as one of the most buzzed-about moments of any Oscar ceremony. (Beautiful women dressed to the nines like Gilded Age debutantes certainly doesn’t hurt ratings.) This year may prove to be a special stu...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Shohreh Aghdashloo
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First things first. If you haven’t seen The Stoning of Soraya M. you must. It’s a very intense and well done film about a young woman who is accused of adultery and is put to death in the town square. The stoning scene is very hard to watch bu...[Read on] |
'Witches' Burned in Kenya
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An angry mob killed five people, four of them women, accused of practicing witchcraftPost | Today 9:45 am
Turns out some people haven’t quite made it to the 21st century.
Five people were burned at the stake in Kenya last week because their ne...[Read on] |
90 Is The New 25!
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Zelda Kaplan renews our faith in the ability to be cool in New York City far after our 30th birthdays. She proclaims that "so many young people are so afraid of becoming old. I would like them to know that from someone who is ninety-four years young...[Read on] |
Haitian Feminist Leader Myriam Merlet (1953-2010)
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Myriam Merlet was killed in the Haiti earthquake last week. Our heartfelt prayers go out to her family, friends and all of the lives she touched as a pioneer for women's rights in Haiti.Democracy NOW! reporter, Amy Goodman reports on her de...[Read on] |
100 People Who Have Changed the Lives of Women and Girls Globally
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Women Deliver honors 100 of the most inspiring people who have delivered results for girls and women globally. The organization, launched in 2007, is committed to bringing action against maternal death, focusing on maternal health as both a human ri...[Read on] |
GOP Women Take a Page from Palin's Facebook
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TAMPA, Fla. (WOMENSENEWS)--Since resigning as governor of Alaska in July, Sarah Palin has avoided the legacy (newspapers and network news) media. But she's managed to remain front-page news through Facebook, the social networking site she used to associat...[Read on] |
Over Thirty "Mourning Mothers" Arrested Monday in Iran
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Female activists in Iran continue to face state punishment and arrest for their peaceful demonstrations, which protest discriminatory laws against women under the Iranian theocracy and the killing or jailing of fellow activists. The Mourning Mothers...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Invokes World’s Least Creative Excuse to Explain Tour Suspension
| Writing on Facebook, Governor Sarah Palin (R-the Internet), argued that “reports of tour demise are greatly exaggerated,” referring to a Real Clear Politics scoop that Palin’s One Nation cross-country publicity stunt has been summarily truncated. We...[Read on] |
Amnesty International honors Joan Baez for a lifetime of Human Rights Advocacy
| Amnesty International turns 50 this year, and closely linked to Amnesty’s legacy of championing human rights is that of folk legend Joan Baez.
Baez was an active supporter of Amnesty from the start, stuffing envelopes at their first home office in San ...[Read on] |
Who Should be Madonna’s Next BF?
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As was previously noted, Madonna recently turned 51. I think it’s time for her to ditch her manpanion and pair up with someone she can grow really old with. But who’s man enough to date Madonna? She’s rich, she’s powerful, she̵...[Read on] |
Proportion of Women Assaulted Higher than Proportion of Women Serving in Elected Office
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By WCF Fellow: Trish Calvarese
After being held captive and repeatedly raped for 18 years, a young girl bore two children from the man who kidnapped her. After being strangled to death and...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics fo...[Read on] |
St. Vincent’s coach Kristen Zawacki dies of apparent heart attack on Christmas
| From Saint Vincent College Athletics:
It is with great sadness that I share with you the tragic news of the death of Kristen Zawacki, associate athletic director and the first and only head coach of the Lady Bearcats. She died of natural causes due ...[Read on] |
War Watch: October Deadliest Month for Americans in Afghanistan
| • Taliban gunmen attacked a guest house in central Kabul this morning, killing six U.N. employees, one of whom was an American security guard. (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC) • On Tuesday, eight American soldiers ...[Read on] |
An Interview With Randee Heller, Mad Men’s Mrs. Blankenship
| Randee Heller as Don Draper’s indiscreet (and now dead) secretary, Mrs. Blankenship. Photograph by Mike Yarish/AMC. The break-out performance of the current TV season has been Randee Heller’s as Mrs. Blankenship, Don Draper’s atypically mature secre...[Read on] |
Yeardley Love and Abusive Relationships
| For the past few weeks the media has covered every aspect of Yeardley Love's untimely death. And, I've searched for why this case struck such a deep cord within me. Is it because it involves college athletes? Athletes who grew up in the same state I did, ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin and the Celebrity of Politics
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Joni Evans, Judith Martin, Liz Smith and Mary Wells talk about a new
breed of celebrities, Palin’s political future and more in the wOw
Conversation
Conversation | Today 12:00 am
LIZ: Do you know there’s no celebrity news to speak of? That&...[Read on] |
America Must Do Better for Mothers in Childbirth, Says Documentarian Christy Turlington
| Ed Burns and Christy Turlington at Vanity Fair’s Tribeca Film Festival dinner, April 20, 2010. Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com. Every minute, a woman dies in childbirth. In total, that’s more than 500,000 women each year—and 90 percent of the time, th...[Read on] |
Designing Women's Dixie Carter Dies at 70
| Actress Dixie Carter - best known for her role as Southerner Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women - passed away Saturday morning. She was 70.
Her cause of death was not disclosed.
"This has been a terrible blow to our family," her rep Steve Rohrsaid said...[Read on] |
Justice Prevails in Guilty Verdict For Murder of Dr. George Tiller
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Today a jury convicted Scott Roeder of first-degree murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas.
The statement of Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women's Law Center, follows:
"Justice has prevailed in the senseless mu...[Read on] |
Arbeit Macht Frei
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When the sign Arbeit Macht Frei was stolen last week from the gates of the Auschwitz in Poland, millions of people all over the world realized that we had lost something much more. We had lost one of the most recognized icons of injustice and cruelty ev...[Read on] |
Women Everywhere Read This: Top Auto Accident Statistics
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According to Online Lawyer Source, vehicular accidents pose a serious threat to the public and auto accident statistics are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 34. Leading cause? This is something serious to consider. For all the moms ...[Read on] |
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