10/15/2008
Catholic women march in Rome for female priesthood (USA Today)
Catholic women seeking to become priests denounced the church's ban on female ordination as sexist and unjust, bringing their campaign close to the Vatican on Wednesday during a worldwide gathering of bishops.
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10/15/2008
Preview of the top women's teams for the upcoming season (USA Today)
A look at USA TODAY's top 16 women's college basektball teams:
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10/15/2008
Women Smokers Prone to Dangerous Blood Vessel Condition (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are eight times more likely to suffer a potentially fatal rupture of the body's largest artery, or require surgery to repair the weakening that can cause such a rupture, than nonsmokers.
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10/15/2008
Why Women Have Bad Teeth (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
Women had poor dental health compared to men back in the hunter-gatherer era, and it got worse as societies turned to farming.
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10/16/2008
Stress Factor: How Economic Turmoil Affects Women (Newsweek)
Why the stress of economic turmoil may affect women more than men—and how to prevent anxiety-related health problems.
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10/16/2008
VIDEO: Women Pray for Dog-Style Births (National Geographic)
Believing dogs have easy pregnancies and births, pregnant Japanese women pray at shrines on the Day of the Dog in hopes of having "canine" birth experiences.
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10/16/2008
Women need protection too (The New Straits Times)
Protecting health, ensuring a continuous source of income and safeguarding oneself against the unexpected means more peace of mind. MEERA MURUGESAN meets insurance experts to find out why women should get coverage.
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10/16/2008
Susan Allen leads 'Women for Palin' rally in Chesterfield (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
About 70 people who attended the "Women for McCain-Palin Victory Rally" in Chesterfield County today got their marching orders from Susan Allen, wife of former Gov. and U.S. Senator George Allen and state chair of Women for McCain-Palin. Watch the debate, take notes, and flood newspapers and radio shows with favorable comments about Sen. John McCain, she said.
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10/15/2008
Police stations run by women to come up in all districts (IE via Yahoo! India News)
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up all-women police stations in all the districts of the state.
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10/15/2008
Why women are more prone to cavities (MSNBC)
Women have had poor dental health compared to men since the hunter-gatherer era, and now an anthropologist is pointing to an overlooked explanation — hormonal and dietary changes related to higher pregnancy rates .
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