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Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, recommending that young women delay getting their first test. In its new guidelines issued Friday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that adolescent girls wait until age 21 to get their first Pap smear.
Most Indian mothers want their daughters to marry decent men who make a good living.
The largest growing economic force in the world isn’t the China or India — it’s women. The economic story of burgeoning economies such as China is also the story of “factory girls,” young women who have found new spending power as a result of new economic opportunities.
A key investor with convicted swindler Bernie Madoff drowned in his swimming pool Sunday afternoon, police said.
Last fall, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won his campaign to extend the city’s mayoral term limits from two four-year terms to three.
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
The executive producer of the “Late Show with David Letterman” defended the company’s treatment of women in response to a letter from the president of the National Organization for Women, who said the star’s actions created a “toxic environment.” “Since we started as a company in 1993, we have taken very seriously the issues you raise regarding respect for women in the workplace,” Rob Burnett wrote in a letter dated October 15.
Grace, Kara and Trichelle were created to fill a void for young black girls who for so long have been playing with dolls that don’t look like them. The new black Barbies released by Mattel have fuller lips, curlier hair and other features that the company says more accurately represent African-American women
In her two previous books, French author Mireille Guiliano instructs women on how to live their lives to the fullest by, ironically enough, not eating to the fullest. She insists that the French have the right answers, pointing to the French joie de vivre as one of the reasons why the country’s women stay so infuriatingly thin.
Nearly two weeks after David Letterman first revealed that he was the victim of an alleged $2 million blackmail plot — and shocked fans with his on-air confession that he had had sex with women who work for him — the veil over the “Late Show” host’s previously super-private love life has lifted. And, as friends and other sources reveal, that love life has always been both idiosyncratic — and messy