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January 6, 2005

Working Women Inspired Toward "Life Simplication" in 2005: Turn Off The Phone...

Rugged Elegant Living: Baileys reported the results of a recent survey today regarding British working women. Their findings revealed that "information overload" is a major cause of stress in women's lives. In 2005, "Life Simplification" will be the key to...

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April 21, 2004

Happy Mother's Day! Mice Created With 2 Genetic Moms, No Dad

Yahoo! News: Just ahead of Mother's Day, scientists have found a way to cut dads out of the picture, at least among rodents: They have produced mice with two genetic moms" and no father. It is the first time the...

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March 26, 2004

Next Generation Teens (Wie and Song) On the Women's Tour

Honolulu Advertiser: At the wise old age of 14, Michelle Wie appears to be in the process of mastering the most difficult element of golf. It has nothing to do with devastating drives and precise putts. It has everything to...

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March 23, 2004

1st Woman, Zaha Hadid, is to be Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize

RuggedElegantLiving.com: For the first time in twenty-five years, The Hyatt Foundation has awarded a woman the highest honor in architecture. Iraqi-born, Zaha Hadid will be presented with the Pritzker Architecture Prize this May in St. Petersburg, Russia. At fifty-three years...

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He's Retired, She's Working, They're Not Happy

New York Times: Such tensions have altered the marital dynamic of retirement, as millions of women continue working after their husbands retire. The challenges represent "a stage of the marriage relationship that's occurring for the first time in history," said...

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March 7, 2004

Volvo Introduces 'Women's Car'

San Jose Mercury News" More than a year ago, Volvo Car gave female employees a special project: Design the car they would like to drive. The result -- a roomy, 215-horsepower coupe -- makes a statement about what women want....

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February 20, 2004

Women Tailor Sex Industry to Their Eyes

New York Times: Experts say demand by women -- both heterosexual and lesbian -- is driving the growth of all sorts of sex-related ventures, from stores, catalogs and sex toy companies to adult Web sites, pornographic films and cable television...

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January 13, 2004

An Education With Hard Courses

New York Times: Nobody questions Michelle Wie's talent, or her potential as a golfer. Wie is 6 feet tall with a lean athletic build, drives the ball close to 300 yards and already has a top-10 finish in an L.P.G.A....

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December 18, 2003

A Young Afghan Dares to Mention the Unmentionable

New York Times: Malalai Joya pushed her black head scarf forward to cover her hair fully, then opened her mouth. Out poured a torrent of words, in a voice rising with emotion. Why, she asked the delegates assembled here on...

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December 14, 2003

This Year, Opposites Attract Holiday Shoppers

Boston.com: When merchants tally up their Christmas sales this year, the items that have flown from their shelves may fall into two classes: luxury goods for which consumers are willing to pay a premium, and value goods sold in volume...

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November 20, 2003

11-year-old moore wins her way to quarter finals of roxy pro in Hawii

TripleCrownSurfing: Eleven year-old Carissa Moore (Kahala, Hawaii) battled victory at sea conditions and a stellar lineup to win her way into the quarter finals of the $30,000 Roxy Pro at Haleiwa today - the opening event of the Vans Triple...

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November 14, 2003

Wie, Youngest to Play in PGA at Sony Open

Honolulu Advertiser: The newest golf frontier to be conquered by Honolulu phenom Michelle Wie lies about 10 minutes from her house Fourteen--year-old Michelle Wie of Hawai'i Kai was granted a sponsor's exemption for the 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii PGA...

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October 25, 2003

Se Ri Park First Woman To Make Cut In Men's Event In 58 Years

Boston.com: Playing against men on the Korean tour, Se Ri Pak shot a 3-under 69 Saturday to tie for 10th out of 63 entrants through three rounds of the SBS Super Tournament. Pak, the first woman in 58 years to...

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October 20, 2003

Annika and the Transformation of Women's Golf

Sun-Sentinal: Annika Sorenstam should be golf's Player of the Year, but not for the usual reasons. It isn't so much the two major championships she won in 2003 that distinguished her. It's all the new fans she won. She isn't...

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Women, Violence, Movies, Governor? - Just like Arnold

New York Times: The weekend after Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California, the No. 1 movie in America was Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1." Given the proximity of the two events, it is tempting to read them...

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September 9, 2003

Women Dominate Fall Movies

Extratv.com: Say goodbye to the boys of summer and say hello to the ladies of the fall: Julia, Ren�e, Meg, Nicole, Sharon, and Uma. From Julia Roberts and Halle Berry to Nicole Kidman and Ren�e Zellweger, box-office expert Paul Dergarabedian...

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July 16, 2003

Smaller Bikinis, More Muscle and Empowerment

New York Times ... In movies like "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," and television series like "Boarding House: North Shore" on WB and "Surf Girls" on MTV, the tiny, triangle-topped bikini is the millennial equivalent of the power suit — the...

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July 2, 2003

Burlison, 13, youngest among many teens at Women's Open

Golf Web: At any other major championship, Sydney Burlison would look out of place. She fits right in at the U.S. Women's Open. The 13-year-old girl with big dreams, wide eyes and a full set of braces just finished...

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June 28, 2003

At 13, She Already Has Tiger in Her Sights

New York Times: [Michelle] Wie, who is six feet tall, averages about 290 yards off the tee with her driver. ... Next to Annika Sorenstam, who shot 71 and 74 in a PGA Tour event in Fort Worth last...

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June 14, 2003

Photography clicks for a snappy generation of empowered women

Asahi.com (Japan): Women are moving in a man's world and winning the big prizes: This year's Kimura Ihei Memorial Photo Award, the country's top photographic accolade, went to a woman, as it did the year before. The year before that,...

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May 31, 2003

Schoolgirl Dawn is Scotland's youngest high flier

Edinburgh Evening News (Scotland): An East Lothian schoolgirl has become the youngest ever person in Scotland to win her private pilot licence. The fifth-year-pupil became Scotland�s joint-youngest person in the country to fly solo last year. Now the teenager has...

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May 27, 2003

Oscar Winning Actress Speaks At UNH Graduation

TheWMURChannel.com: As one of the first women to attend Dartmouth College, actress Meryl Streep had some words of femine wisdom today for graduates of the University of New Hampshire. Attending a drama class about 30 years ago, she said she...

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May 21, 2003

LPGA To Hold First-Ever Open Monday Qualifying

The Golf Channel: The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) will hold its first-ever open Monday qualifying round at the start of the ShopRite LPGA Classic tournament week, on Monday, June 23, at the Marriott Seaview Resort Bay Course in Galloway...

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May 19, 2003

Girls Rule at the Intel Science Fair

CIOL: Girls stole the show at the Intel International Science & Engineering fair held in Cleveland. The top awards this year went to Anila Madiraju, of Canada, Elena Glassman of Pennsylvania and Lisa Glukhovsky of Connecticut. This is further evidence...

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May 16, 2003

The New Gender Gap

BusinessWeek: From kindergarten to graduate school, boys are fast becoming the second sex. "Girls are on a tear through the educational system," says Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher...

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Michelle Wie, 13, Gets Spot in Men's Tourney

San Jose Mercury News: Teenager Michelle Wie has accepted a sponsor's exemption to play in the Boise Open on the Nationwide Tour, becoming the first female golfer to compete on the PGA Tour's developmental circuit. The event is Sept. 18-21....

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