cato@liberty: In a novel approach to punishing men who attempt to hire prostitutes, Nashville and other cities are sending first-time offenders to a one-day class where they learn from former prostitutes, health experts, psychologists and law enforcement officers about “the risks of hiring a prostitute.”

Обнаружены сложности в передаче разрушения семьи из поколения в поколение в качестве семейной традиции:
MSNBC -- The idea behind assuring that blacks had access to higher education and graduate school was that after a generation or so, African-Americans would reach a kind of achievement parity after generations of suffering educational and career ( Read more... )

Bloomberg Top -- Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, who came to Italy with a retinue of 40 female bodyguards and demanded to meet 700 of the country’s most important women, called for a feminist uprising and condemned the Arab World for treating women like “furniture.”

Chicagoist -- A University of Chicago student created a controversial organization dedicated to the advancement of men, encouraging undergraduate male students to sharpen their understanding of business and politics.

What Do Women Want in a Laptop?The computer maker Dell recently took the wraps off a new Web site geared toward women called Della, which advertises Dell’s line of Inspiron Mini 10 netbooks ( Read more... )

The Columbus Dispatch -- [Delegate Jeff] Eldridge estimated that at least 80 percent of the responses that he deemed foul, hateful or threatening came from men ( Read more... )

Суд: мужика не взяли официантом в ресторан Hooters (для зарубежных читателей подтверждаю: да, именно такой ресторан и с такими официантками, как вы подумали). Ой, да их тут тысячи. A similar case in 1997 resulted in Hooters paying out a $3.75 million settlement to reconcile the matter.

Не могу молчать! Дублирую свою старинную выписку из книги д-ра Вильяма Нолена "A Surgeon's World"

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     Действительно, всем было известно, что Даша получила уже третью тему для диссертации. Первая тема у нее была "Проблемы общественного питания при социализме". Тема эта, очень ясная двадцать лет назад, когда любому пионеру и Даше в том числе было надежно известно, что семейные кухни в скором времени отомрут, домашние очаги погаснут и ( Read more... )

Chicago Tribune -- A Bolingbrook elementary school nurse was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for allegedly having sexual relations with three teen boys in 2006, officials said.

Bloomberg TOP -- American Airlines flight attendants are urging the world's largest carrier to filter its in- ( Read more... )