"road-sign-rally" Articles & Blogs:
Road trips aren't so boring anymore
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Ah, road trips; the bastion of family squabbles and the phrase “stop
touching me!” I remember those days. My brother and I would share the
back seat of a 1989 Jeep Cherokee Laredo and stack a bag of toys or
books in the middle of the seat in order to...[Read on] |
National Women’s Law Center’s Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day
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Are you a female athlete? Do you have a blog, Facebook or Twitter account? Do you have a great story about how sports positively impacts your life?
For the first time, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is hosting Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sport...[Read on] |
Race Day: Three American Women in Rallye AÏcha des Gazelles
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We've told you a little about the Rallye AÏcha des Gazelles here on the Ask Patty blog before, but for those of you who are unfamiliar, it's a pretty amazing thing. Imagine a classic off-road auto rally - this one takes place in the desert of Morocco ...[Read on] |
Rugged racing women motor across Morocco in the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles
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This year, the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles celebrates its 20th anniversary and its successful and unique history. The rally is the only all-women's off-road rally in the world and strictly forbids competitors from using GPS, support teams, cell phones,...[Read on] |
Wino Wednesday: James Mays Road Trip
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I am SO sorry I didn’t catch onto this sooner, but if you like to laugh and are interested in wine you have to check out James Mays Road Trip on BBC America. They’re on season two and they’re touring California Wineries! Of course it took years for...[Read on] |
Casting calls begin for Ford Focus Rally: America
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Ford is teaming up with the Emmy Award-winning creators of The Amazing Race – Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri – to create the first interactive real-time road rally featuring the new 2012 Ford Focus.
The five-week program, Focus Rally: Amer...[Read on] |
Top Ten Wins for Women in 2009
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Protesters at a May 6, 2009 rally in the Dominican Republic against Article 30, a proposed constitutional provision that threatened to severely restrict reproductive health access. Although the provision eventually passed, extraordinary women-led...[Read on] |
From Dreaming to Driving -- How To Get Started in Racing
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So, all your life you've dreamed of being a racecar driver, and now you think it's time to get behind the wheel. But where do you start? Well, unless your name is Earnhardt, Unser, or Andretti, you're going to need to roll up your sleeves, do your hom...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Starting Somewhere
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We drove through Forrest City on the way to St. Francis National Forest because I was curious to see the town, which had been described to me as one of the most segregated places in America. The downtown is a ghost town almost on the level of Cairo, but...[Read on] |
Take a Volunteer Vacation
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My husband has a BIG birthday coming up next year and I want to take him on an international trip. I’ve been debating what type of excursion to plan. After reading Nola Lee Kelsey’s new book The Voluntary Traveler, I knew I’d found my answer: a vol...[Read on] |
Girl Up Pep Rally
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More than 400 girls and (and some boys) from all over LA joined gathered at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park a few weeks ago to support the United Nations Girl Up campaign and learn about the lives of girls in Malawi, Liberia, Guatemala, and Ethio...[Read on] |
Rally on Capitol Hill: Standing up to Stupak-Pitts
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This post was submitted by WCF Fellow, Stephanie Glover
There has been a lot of negative news around health care reform lately. A lot of people, including myself, are especially worried about the...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politic...[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] |
X-Games 16 Girls Day August 1st
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We are experiencing technical difficulties with the online registration, fear not. If you want to reserve a spot, email courtney.gro@gmail.com or call 812-322-5254 with the following information:
Participant’s Full Name
Participant’s Age
Skat...[Read on] |
DVD Alert- Revolutionary Road and Spring Breakdown
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I really loved Revolutionary Road. I thought it was a great feminist film and was really surprised that it did not get more play around the awards. I thought that Kate Winslet’s performance in Revolutionary Road was her better one of the year, and that...[Read on] |
Bristol Palin: Teen Pregnancy Warning Sign?
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I love Cristina Page and think she’s brilliant — her book How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America is a must-read — but I’m not sure she gets in right in this article about how Bristol and Levi could be the teen pregnancy spokespe...[Read on] |
Tribeca Winners: It's All About the Art
| David Salle, "Untitled" 2008. Awarded to Carlos Chahine, for his film The North Road, which won best narrative short. Emitting a collective, satisfied, post-coital sigh after a week and a half of building tension, the nation learned the results of...
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Mel Greenberg says goodbye to the Inquirer but not to women’s basketball
| Twitpic from @jtannenwald: Farewell party for @womhoopsguru
He is known as the Guru. He is a walking encyclopedia of women’s basketball history, mostly because he witnessed, chronicled and helped shape it for four decades.
I first met Mel Greenber...[Read on] |
Somewhere in Heaven, June Cleaver is Scolding God for Bringing Earthworms into the House
| Barbara Billingsley, famous for playing perfect, pearl-wearing June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver, died Saturday at the age of 94. Somewhere, Eddie Haskell is telling her that she looks lovely in wings. [NY Daily News] Pentagon officials brace for the wor...[Read on] |
Renting a Car Overseas - Great Tips from the Experts
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For many of us, summer is synonymous with "road trip": The simple and joyful act of packing your family into your car and driving to new and exciting destinations.
It gets a little less simple when you plan a "fly and drive" excursion involving a rental...[Read on] |
Help keep buzzed drivers off road on St. Patrick's Day
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"I'm fine to drive." Expect to hear this line a lot on St. Patrick's Day. Known as much for drinking as it is for shamrocks and the color green, the March 17th holiday is a great time to be out with friends, but can be a dangerous time to be out on the r...[Read on] |
Happy Birthday Mr. President: Obama Turns 49 Today
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Wednesday, August 4 is the 49th birthday of America’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama II. “I think his plans for tomorrow are dinner with some friends in Chicago. And I think he is looking forward to spending the nigh...[Read on] |
Why Obama Can’t Make Kids Healthy (a different take on the nutrition bill)
| Pens don’t make change, actions do. A few days ago, President Obama signed a nutrition bill. Also known as the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act 2010. People ooh & awed. Yay! We have ANOTHER bill. This will make the obesity crisis diminish. And we won...[Read on] |
GirlDrive the book is out
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Two years after Nona Willis Aronowitz and the missed Emma Bee Bernstein hit the road for a journey across the country and into the minds of young women on the many states and forms of feminism, their book on their findings has been released. Here's the ...[Read on] |
Bike to Work Day: On the Right Track
| It’s not a revolution, not yet anyway, but clearly more people are commuting by bicycle. Friday is national Bike-to-Work Day, drawing even more attention to the trend.
There are more bicycles on the road than there were a year ago, more than even a cou...[Read on] |
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