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Forced To Be Physically Fit
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Students who attend Lincoln University are now being required to attend a 3 hour per week fitness course if their body mass index registers in the obese range (about 30BMI). Students who are obese and refuse to take this course will not be allowed to graduate.
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Do You Do Black Friday?
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A lot of the savings we were seeing this year came in the form of doorbusters and mostly for electronics. Unless you were lined up outside the door just as stores opened in the early morning, you may not have seen too many savings.
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High Fashion For Football Fans
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From floor-length ball gowns made from recycled team jerseys to handbags and hair accessories the NFL is paying more attention to women as consumers in the sporting arena. And it's no wonder since women make up 40 percent of the almost 200 million football fans nationwide.
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Rethinking The Yearly Test
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After taking the latest medical data into account the ACOG states that women between the ages of 21 and 30 should only receive the pap test once every 2 years and women 30 and older with 3 consecutive normal pap tests should have the test done every 3 years. Additionally, women aged 65 to 70 can stop taking the test all together if they have had 3 consecutive normal tests and no abnormal tests within 10 years.
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The Middle-Class Thief
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Joshua Bamfield, director of the Britain-based Center for Retail Research reports to Time about why the middle-class are finding it easier to shoplift. Bamfield says, "In addition to the usual criminals, you have lots of newcomers to stealing who figure they don't run much risk at getting caught, won't pay much of a price if they are and justify their actions on the hard times we're all facing."
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Women Athletes Getting All The Wrong Attention
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Many argue that women are held to a different standard in sports because they are supposed to be the nurturers and caregivers. Anytime the media gets a glimpse of aggression in female sports it is seen as entirely wrong and taken to the next level.
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One 'Tough Woman' Put An End To The Massacre At Fort Hood
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Munley and her partner arrived on the scene within 3 minutes of getting the call. Cone has stated that, "The critical factor here was her quick response to the situation." Munley's obvious skill and ability to act fast on her feet has raised the question of why military women are still not permitted to take part in direct ground combat.
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Is the Sex Offender Registry Flawed?
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One example of the way the sex offender registry has failed is in the case of a Michigan man, Robert Dipiazza, who at the age of 18 had consensual sex with his almost 15-year-old girlfriend and was placed on the sex offender registry. Dipiazza has since married his then girlfriend and has reported that it has become impossible for him to get or hold down a job with his name on the registry.
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Social Networking For Six-Year-Olds
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There are sites, unlike MySpace and Facebook, that cater specifically to young children and place limitations on what the children can do while online. On one site, loosely based onFacebook, called KidSwirl there are children as young as 5 that have active accounts. Both Webkinz and Whyville are also social networking sites for kids that feature a more supervised level of networking like KidSwirl.
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Does Your Beauty Routine Need a Boost?
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How long does your skin care routine take every day? We'd love for you to share your beauty routine with us. We want to know what your skincare regime looks like on a daily basis, morning and night and we want to know if you're happy or frustrated with your results.
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