On Super Bowl Sunday, a Concussion Conversation Continues
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, and even if your hometown’s team is one of the competitors, none has completely escaped chatter about the brain-injury controversy—from CNN’s report on the long-lasting damage suffered by former players, after years of impacts like those at left, to stories from Business Week and others on how states are already changing practice rules for school sports. If you watch the game, you’ll see at least one of those expensive PSAs on the subject. And if you're a New York Times reader, you might have seen the following quote from a 1928 issue of the Journal of ...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Justice Elusive
This week, we're continuing WVFC's Nine Women to Run the World campaign, first with Monday's piece about Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Now, our friends at On The Issues Magazine talks about another of our nominees, Aung San Suu Kyi, in the piece below by Janet Benshoof (from the current issue, which also includes audio memoirs from Gloria Feldt about legalizing birth control and a history of women resisting the Nazis from editor Cynthia Cooper). Global Justice Center President Janet Benshoof is an internationally recognized human rights lawyer who has established landmark legal precedents on women's rights, the right to ...
What was Your Worst Date Ever? It might be worth something.
For many of us, the word "date" reminds us of nervous high-school moments, our first dinner with our eventual mate, that first time after a divorce we agreed to have a drink with someone new. But almost all of us have had dates we call "bad." But what about those that go beyond bad? Not the awkward date that left you talking about the weather the whole time, but the one that you try not to remember even years later. But now, you might just have some incentive to remember it. You might even win $1000.00. My Very Worst Date has been ...
Elizabeth Edwards: An Inconvenient Truth
To hear them tell it, they didn't really want it to be this way. John Edwards didn't want to admit paternity of the little girl his mistress gave birth to because doing so would hurt his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth has Stage 4 breast cancer and hardly needs another cloud on her horizon. Edwards' sycophantic campaign aide, Andrew Young, says he agreed to pretend to be the father of that child so to avoid hurting Elizabeth. And Rielle Hunter agreed to go into hiding during the campaign, then bide her time after the child was born -- an arrangement designed, so we're told, to avoid ...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: “The capitol city had been dark for 14 years”
One of the nominees most frequently mentioned for Carol Muske-Dukes' Nine Women to Run the World, featured here last week, was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the 71-year-old president of Liberia. WVFC was thrilled when Christian Science Monitor correspondent Jina Moore, who had talked to Sirleaf last fall from West Africa in a reporting trip funded by Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, agreed to share some of the president's thoughts with WVFC. We look forward to seeing more work like Moore's piece in the CSM Magazine, in which we learned (among much else) how much it matters in land disputes for women ...
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Our Sex Lives: One Response
Another pre-Valentine’s Day blip: a note for the editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves, whose query about women’s sex lives we posted last week. We were delighted at the good news [...]
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To hear them tell it, they didn’t really want it to be this way.
John Edwards didn’t want to admit paternity of the little girl his mistress gave birth to because [...]
Many of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]
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Temple Grandin, My Son and Me
This past weekend saw the cable TV premiere of a movie about animal behavior expert and autism advocate Temple Grandin. WVFC contributor Tamar Bihari writes about watching the film with [...]
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Today is Super Bowl Sunday, and even if your hometown’s team is one of the competitors, none has completely escaped chatter about the brain-injury controversy—from CNN’s report on the long-lasting [...]
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Temple Grandin, My Son and MeThis past weekend saw the cable TV premiere of a movie about animal behavior expert and autism advocate Temple Grandin. WVFC contributor Tamar Bihari writes about watching the film with [...]
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As I write this I am looking out of a window in an air conditioned (!) Barnes & Noble in Houston. I have just seen a crow. Once again [...]
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Justice Elusive
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