"new-plan" Articles & Blogs:
17-Year-Olds Can Now Buy Plan B at the Pharmacy
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A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow the
morning-after pill to be sold at pharmacies without prescriptions to girls 17 and olderNew Rules for Plan B | Today 12:30 pm
A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow ...[Read on] |
Dee Dee Myers: President Obama Cannot Afford to Get His Deficit Plan Wrong
| Obama in September 2010. Photograph by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images.This afternoon, President Obama will lay out his plan for deficit reduction and entitlement reform. Finally. Substantively, the plan will likely borrow a number of important ...[Read on] |
Geithner's New Toxic Asset Plan Calls on Hedge Fund Help
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Geithner unveils plan to rid toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, calls for private industry to share some riskCongress Taxing AIG Bonuses | Today 11:20 am
Yes, President Obama and others at the White House are angry over those big AIG bonuses...[Read on] |
Re-capping the Lost Second Season of Sarah Palin’s Alaska
| Last night saw the season finale of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, TLC’s eight part travelogue through Sarah Palin’s neuroses. According to a report by Entertainment Weekly, that episode will be the series’ last. “There are no plans to send uber-producer...[Read on] |
RNC insurance plan covers abortion for their employees
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For those of you who haven't already heard, let me repeat that: the Republican National Committee (RNC) has a health insurance plan for their employees that covers abortion. Now, this shouldn't even be surprising, despite my out-loud laugh half in amazeme...[Read on] |
An Education
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The second An Education opened at Sundance last January the buzz began. The buzz was most especially focused on the star making performance of a pretty unknown English actress Carey Mulligan. Sometimes the buzz blows over or gets overtaken by new buzz...[Read on] |
Tina Fey: She likes us, she really likes us!
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Today a very special box of books came into our office.We’ve been waiting very patiently for Tina Fey’s new book, Bossypants, and man are we stoked and honored to be mentioned on its pages! I plan on reading the entire book immediately but so ...[Read on] |
Afghan Women Would Rather Talk About Recovery
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(WOMENSENEWS)--As the world waits for President Barack Obama to announce next week his plan to send up to 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, three female leaders of civil society efforts focused their concerns on nation building.
The trio want...[Read on] |
Affordable Care Act Helps Women Except That...
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This is according to a story linked on DailyKos.com , via a Web MD story on a new Commonwealth Fund Study. (PDF)
About 7.3 million women aged 19 to 64 were turned down when they tried to buy an insurance plan, charged a higher rate than men, or had a ...[Read on] |
Kara Goucher announces she is pregnant
| In a May 7th NY Times article, Kara Goucher announced her pregnancy. After revealing last April that she wanted to have a child prior to her build up to the 2012 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, Goucher found out that she was pregnant in January. She s...[Read on] |
The End of An Era – It Takes A Team, Rest in Peace
| It is with sadness that I am passing on the news that the Women’s Sports Foundation has eliminated its initiative, It Takes A Team, effective at the end of January when my contract as director of ITAT expires. I’ve directed It Takes A Team for five ye...[Read on] |
5 Ways to Ensure You’ll Love Exercising
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How often do you look at yourself, look at the mirror, the scale or other girls and decide you’re finally going to get into a work-out schedule? We all do it. How often have you set out on an exercise plan, only to watch it fade after a few trips to the...[Read on] |
Tell Your Members of Congress We Need Real Health Care Reform
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
Have you seen them yet? Opponents of real reform are mobilizing and stepping up their efforts to block comprehensive health care reform. They're also presen...[Read on] |
The "Dear Health Plan Enrollee" Letter
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
This post is part of a series on Women and Health Reform.
It came via certified mail, which was enough to make her nervous, but a quick glance at the return address actually made her...[Read on] |
Sarah Gilbert: from Roseanne to Talk Show Creator
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Now that Comic-Con has ended the excitement for us TV addicts is now focused on the upcoming fall TV season. This week began the annual dog and pony show TCA (which I’d love to see in person one day) with all the networks rolling out all the new sho...[Read on] |
First fruits of a beautiful labor: Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy graduates inaugural class
| Andre Agassi and one of the first graduates from the Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy on Saturday, June 13, during the graduation ceremony.(All Photos by Wireimage)by Kyle Hansen for the Las Vegas SuncontactLas Vegas, Saturday, June 13 -- The first ...[Read on] |
Run for Congo Women
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This is pretty good.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine highlighted a number of individuals as part of a series about grassroots work being done worldwide to help others in need. One of the women profiled, along with her mission, caught our at...[Read on] |
Palin, Clinton Comic Sell Out
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Bluewater Productions can hardly believe that their ‘Female Force’ series has done so wellPalin, Clinton Comics | Today 1:00 pm
Sarah Palin is hugely popular among comic-book readers.
Bluewater Productions, a graphic-novel company, yeste...[Read on] |
Her Ovaries, His Cigarettes: Which Costs More in the Individual Health Insurance Market?
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
For most of their lives, women are charged more than men for health plans in the individual insurance market. This is a consequence of “gender rating,” the common insurance industry pr...[Read on] |
Clinton: U.S. Seeking Two-State Solution for Israel, Palestine
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Secretary of state indirectly says Hamas shouldn’t expect to get any cash; shakes hands with Syrian official after years of no U.S.-Syria contactPost | Today 11:45 am
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Hillary Clinton entered Middle East politics with a splash Monday —...[Read on] |
What's in Obama's Proposed 2010 Budget for You?
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We here at wOw have gone through the huge budget documents to pick out what parts of the $355 trillion plan may affect womenPost | Today 1:50 pm
We understand the logistics of President Obama’s recently revealed $3.55 trillion budget can be a bit ...[Read on] |
The One Sarah Palin E-mail We Cannot Stop Thinking About
| Excerpted from Sarah Palin's e-mail.There was something for everyone in the Sarah Palin e-mail dump that took place over the weekend. Fans would have loved that she arranged to read to local kindergartners when her plane was grounded in upstate Alaska. Fo...[Read on] |
Royal Wedding Watch: Palace Defends Kate’s “Off-the-Cuff” Diet Comments
| Kate Middleton flips pancakes in Belfast. Photograph by Tim Rooke/Rex/Rex USA.
The royal wedding of Prince William and the future Princess Catherine is just 38 days away. From the daily barrage of tabloid folly, VF.com’s Royal Watcher in London pluc...[Read on] |
Clinton Faces Tough Sell of Two-State Solution During Mideast Tour
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Clinton says Hamas must stop violence and recognize Israel, pressures Israelis to open Gaza border to provide relief to peoplePost | Today 9:40 am
Hillary Clinton may have received more than kisses from Israeli leaders on her first official trip to the ...[Read on] |
Vacation Planning for Chicks on a Budget
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For most college students, the end of the school year comes early. Luckily, there is usually a pretty decent gap of time between the conclusion of final exams and the beginning of summer jobs or internships. So, Chicks, you know what this means: time to s...[Read on] |
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