"high-jump" Articles & Blogs:
Vile Poster of the Day: Centurion
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Got this in my email this morning and it was enough to make me gag. Could her boobs be any bigger?
Yuck. Vile. You have to jump to look at it because I don’t want it on my home page.
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LIVE’S High Heel-a-thon
| The 2010 Regis and Kelly LIVE! High Heel-A-Thon is set to take place on Wednesday, September 22nd. The High Heel-A-Thon is a fun 150-yard dash in support of The Heart Truth®. Although this is simply a fun event in heels, a lot of serious athletes als...[Read on] |
Palins and Friends in the News: Levi’s Illogical Book Cover, Bristol’s Facial Surgery
| Significant Palin-related personal-appearance news this morning. Which would you like to hear first, Levi or Bristol? Levi? Personally, that would not have been our choice, but O.K. Lo, the cover for Levi Johnston’s forthcoming memoir, Deer in the Headl...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Along for the Ride
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Talking about this book today. Transcript after the jump!
<p>Hi everybody! I'm Miriam and I'm doing this week's Not Oprah's Book Club. I'm standing in for Courtney because I wanted to talk...[Read on] |
Title IX: 38 Years Later
| by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...[Read on] |
HS sports: 'one of the next great markets'
| According to rankings, the biggest high school football game in the country tonight will be played in South Florida tonight and will -- courtesy of ESPN -- be aired for the nation to watch. Marketers from Nike and other major brands will be watching becau...[Read on] |
Glee Tackles High-School Bullying
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Last night's episode of Glee spotlighted high-school bullying, in the form of Kurt, McKinley High's only openly gay student, who is physically and verbally abused for his sexuality, and Shannon Beiste, the new football coach who threatens Sue's budget exp...[Read on] |
What They Forget to Teach in High School
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My daughter graduated from college last week, and although I've known her for 22 years, I'm still amazed at this miracle that has grown from a good idea in my mind into a fabulous, full-grown person. When I thought about having a kid, the reality was comp...[Read on] |
Rebecca Hamilton Reads from Fighting For Darfur
| After the Rwandan genocide in 1994, millions of people around the world responded to the mass atrocity, vowing “never again,” only to learn about a horrific wave of killings in Darfur—a region in western Sudan—nine years later. In ...[Read on] |
Happy π Day!
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Today is 3/14, or π Day to the mathematically minded. That's π, or Pi, which some of you will undoubtedly recall from your high school geometry classes - it's an irrational number that is famously approximated at 3.14 - but in reality, the number doe...[Read on] |
Mika Brzezinski Reads From Knowing Your Value
| In her new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth (Weinstein Books), journalist Mika Brzezinski—Joe Scarborough’s co-host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe—traces her unconventional career path, addressing...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
What's on Chloë Sevigny's Vanity Table?
| Left: Kiehl's Limited Edition Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque with labels designed by Dexter's Michael C. Hall and Big Love's Chloë Sevigny. Right: The actress at the April 7 launch event for the collection in Santa Monica, California. By Joe S...[Read on] |
Don't get caught out in the cold with a dead car battery!
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When the temperatures dip below 0-degrees F, my auto repair shop receives early morning phone calls crying for 'help' because of cars not starting. Here are some illuminating statistics by the Battery Council International that explain why so many car bat...[Read on] |
Girls, Inc. Orange County: They sure are strong, smart and bold
| Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of meeting with 30 or 40 girls ages 5 to 11 at Girls, Inc. of Orange County. What I had planned was to show them the video of the 2004 US Olympic Trials steeplechase, talk about believing in yourself and dealing with advers...[Read on] |
Cheerleading one's way to compliance
| A short but somewhat informative article about the issues surrounding competitive cheerleading and its potential to resolve some schools' Title IX issues around opportunities. Appropriate given the recent attempt by Quinnipiac to earn compliance by cuttin...[Read on] |
Ski Jumpers Jump Through Hoops
| Ski jumper Jessica Jerome. Photographs by Mia Tran. The free-flowing rum drinks helped you handle the many incongruities earlier this week on the third floor of Norwood, a private club in downtown New York City, but disparities were still pretty acute. In...[Read on] |
Limbaugh: "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it."
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Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.
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Transcript after the jump.
Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a "Female Summit" to find out how he could "own women."
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Saturday Reading: What if "The Expendables" Were Women
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From FlavorWire
The Expendables opens today, and if you didn’t know already, it’s an action movie that features a leather bag brimming with bundled cash, a helpless woman with an accent, and lots of bad-ass dudes dressed in black running around kill...[Read on] |
NYC high school sprinting star in desperate need of bone marrow donor
| I started my running "career" as a sprinter, way back in the day. (Actually, my first running was from the batter's box to first base, but that's a story for another day.)Today, when I write feature articles about runners, one of the questions I often ask...[Read on] |
Bristol Palin: Don't get pregnant unless you're privileged
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Bristol Palin has shot a new PSA for the abstinence pushing and just generally creepy Candie's Foundation. And it is so not OK:
Transcript after the jump.
Even entertainment website E! Online recognizes that this add is messed up, saying the message is...[Read on] |
Diablo Cody gets new gig
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Seems that Diablo Cody is continuing to beat the odds. Even though the Jennifer’s Body box office was weak she seems to have gotten her next gig. Let’s also keep in mind that Toni Collette won a surprise best actress Emmy on Sunday night for the U...[Read on] |
Crush of the Week: Lady Sovereign
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I went to see Lady Sovereign in concert on Wednesday, and all I can say is that this woman is off the hook! The rapper (and a self-proclaimed feminist, I might add) from the UK is gritty, enthralling and powerful and I loved every minute of her performa...[Read on] |
Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
This National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Urge Schools to Support Their Female Athletes
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by Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
On February 3, 2010, join NWLC in celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day. On this day every year, advocates, students, and parents across the country show their support for wo...[Read on] |
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