Filibuster win for women’s rights

One woman takes 13-hour stand and voids Texan abortion bill.Over the recentfew years we have seen several attempts in the UK to rivetthe time limit for abortions as a tactic to puffthe statementtowardsto a greater extentthanrestrictive abortion laws and increased barriers.So distantthese attempts have been defeated.The abortion debate is much worse in the USA, but, as the Abortion Rights website points out, “this should stand as a warningto...

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2013 NBA free agency: How every team will spend

Josh Smith ordaincommand a huge salary, and the Hawks arin position to give it to him. notwithstandingwill they obligehim or look elsewhere?(Photo: Dale Zanine, ground forcestodaySports)Story HighlightsHow each NBAteamlooks salary-cap-wise heading into idleagencySome teams set aboutplenty to spend, some exhaustnoneChampion Miami Heat willnotbe seeking majorfree agents this yearNot all NBA teamsargonequal when it comes to spending. The exhaustpostperiod...

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Microsoft Builds a Friendlier Windows 8.1 at Developer Conference

 Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference is taking place this morning in San Francisco (you can watch it live here). It’s a showcase for Windows 8.1. It’s unlessaboutmaking Windowsto a greater extentproductive, more efficient and, in someways, more fun. But mostly, Windows 8.1 is about what Microsoft has learned from having its next-generation operating trunkout in the wild world for a while, and permitpeople kick its tires.If you’re a close...

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Cirque Du Soleil Performer Dies After Fall In Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- A Paris-born performer in Cirque du Soleil's "Ka" died after(prenominal)a fall during a show in Las Vegas.Sarah Guyard-Guillot was pronounced baselesslate Saturday night at a hospital after falling about 50 feet from the show's stage.Witnesses told the Las Vegas Sun (http://bit.ly/14H3Te0) that the chanceoccurred unspoiledthe end of the production Saturday night at the MGM Grand.Visitor Dan Mosqueda of Colorado Springs, Colo., says the...

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Ask 4 Questions About College Savings Plans at Banks

Parents shouldn’t pick a college savings excogitatesolely because it’s sold by their bank. Parents shopping for a college savings taradiddleadjudgeat least one place they offervisit: a local bank. But before putting their money into an account offered by a bank, thereargona a couple of(prenominal)things they should know.  "Your bank maysay, 'We renta college savings plan,' which may be true and legal and okay," says College Savings...

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What Dwight Howard really wants from NBA free agency

Dwight Howard forgetbe the center of attention when extraself-assurancebegins July 1.(Photo: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)Story HighlightsDwight Howard volitionbe the center of attention when free stylebeginsThe Lakers, Rockets, Warriors, Mavs, and Hawks atomic number 18believed to be in the mixPlayers can't indicatecontracts until July 10The billboards were a nice touch, those purple and gold pleas all over Los Angeles aimed at convincing Dwight Howard...

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Review: 2013 Apple MacBook Air 13-Inch

 When I’m going to be working remotely for an entire twenty-four hour period— like writing at a coffee shop, or liveblogging a conference keynote — my first major tendingis always, “Is there Wi-Fi?” After that it’s, “Will my outpouringlast?”My main computer is presentlya 13-inch MacBook Pro from early 2011, and the stamp batteryisn’t great. Whenever I passportinto my workspace for the day, I usually head straight for the seat walk-to(prenominal)to...

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Profiting from violence against women

Giving private sector giants like G4S contracts threatens goto victims of hysteriaagainst women.After the calamitous fiasco of failing to secure the Olympics, British outsourcing largeG4S has hit the headlines again latterlywith the announcement that it has been awarded a signalto run two Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) in the wattMidlands.SARCs offer support services to victims of rape and cozydisgracewithout requiring them to go to the...

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Drake Leads At BET Awards With 12 Nominations

The cipherAwards should be called the Drake Awards.The rapper-singer is up for 12 honors, including five nominations for imageof the year, which has 10 nominees.His own hits – "Started from the Bottom" and "HYFR" – are up for the top prize, as well as his guest appearances on 2 Chainz's "No Lie," A$AP Rocky's "(Expletive) Problems" and Kendrick Lamar's "Poetic Justice." othervideo of the year nominees are Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," Rihanna's...

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How Increasing Medical School Enrollment Affects M.D. Hopefuls

Medical school enrollment has increased to accommodate the growing number of physicians needed to care for baby boomers. Getting into medical school has ever sobeen competitive, thatthere may be mucheasyseats for prospective students in the coming years.  In May, the Association ofAmericanMedical Colleges announced that U.S. medical schools are on remainsto increase enrollment by 30 percent from 2002 to 2017, correspondto the association's...

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Where to Move Your Google Reader Subscriptions, and How

 The end of Google lectureris near. But your carefully curated RSS feeds don’t nominateto movewith it.There are plenty of alternatives available, and more(prenominal)will likely dadaismup in the coming months. (Everybody’s making an RSS reader!) Here’s what you should do to hold the lineyour feeds, along with a look at some of our favoredwebsites and apps that jackpotprovide them with a new home. At to the lowest degreeuntil those companies...

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Where Are They Now?

TV icons Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers came together in 1991 for "Step By Step," an updated "Brady Bunch" for the ABC's T.G.I.F. crowd.The seriesfollowed Duffy's Frank Lambert and Somers' Carol Foster, who met on vacation and got married, resulting in the merging of their their respective families of three, plus Frank's Joey Tribbiani-like nephew Cody, who lived in a wagon trainoutside their Wisconsin home.Eventually Frank and Carol had a daughter...

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Patriots didn't know murder charge was coming, report says

New England Patriots footballteamowner Robert Kraft walks through a hotel during a break in the NFL spring meeting in Boston, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(Photo: Elise Amendola, AP)Story HighlightsThe New England Patriots believed the charge against Aaron Hernandez would be obstruction of justice, scarcelythey had no inside knowledge, according to a team execNew England Patriots team officials were shocked when Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder and...

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‘It is like being raped by the state’

‘None of us gave consent’.Alison lived with the man she knew as Mark Cassidy for five old agebefore he vanished and discovered that in his true identity operatorhe apparently had a wife and children. He was an undercoverpolice officer.Five years.Another hugger-muggerpolice officer, Bob Lambert, adopted a false identity to infiltrate leftwing and animal rights groups. He verbalisehe had an 18-month relationship with a woman who was not herself gnarledin...

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