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'Let me keep my dead husband's sperm'
A woman has begun a legal bid to prevent her dead husband's frozen sperm from being destroyed.
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Fit Pride Isn’t ‘Hate Speech’
"Fit Mom" Maria Kang on being booted from Facebook and why "fit pride" isn't hate speech
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David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered a coruscating speech about the divide between rich and poor in America, and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact. This is an edited extract
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U.S. Pregnancy Rate Lowest In 12 Years
Women in the U.S. are having fewer children than ever, a December study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. This is not the first time the CDC released data on low birth rates in the U.S. An earlier CDC report from this year revealed that teenage pregnancy dropped six percent since 2011 and that more women over 30 were having children. But this month's report reveals the U.S. pregnancy rate is the lowest it's been in 12 years.
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Suffering from Alzheimer's, Ga. man fatally shot
The unlikely collision between two strangers one deeply confused, another perceiving a threat illustrates both the difficulties that caregivers face in keeping loved ones with Alzheimer's safe and the consequences of miscalculation in a state that celebrates its gun culture
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The young will inherit a future they see as a sham
His name is Andrei Mihailescu, he’s 22, and he stands on the lip of one of the biggest chasms Canadian society has ever known, symbolizing a profound fracture in the country’s social cohesion.
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How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
From the workplace to our private lives, American society is starting to resemble a police state.
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'The women who sold their daughters into sex slavery
A neighborhood in Cambodia is a global center of the child sex trade. The peddlers? Often, their parents.
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Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How Dumbed Down America Has Become
In Kentucky, an eighth grade exam from 1912 was recently donated to the Bullitt County History Museum. When I read this exam over, I was shocked at how difficult it was. Could most eighth grade students pass such an exam today? Of course not. In fact, I don’t even think that I could pass it.
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Why Bathrooms Should All Be Gender-Neutral
Gender-divided bathrooms have long been a point of contention for queer people, especially those identifying as trans*. For those whose gender identity or presentation defies the clear-cut gender binary, the necessary urge to relieve oneself often ends with a painful resignation to either male or female when in public. The result is discomfort for everyone involved
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Closing The 'Word Gap' Between Rich And Poor
In the early 1990s, a team of researchers decided to follow about 40 volunteer families — some poor, some middle class, some rich — during the first three years of their new children's lives. Every month, the researchers recorded an hour of sound from the families' homes. Later in the lab, the team listened back and painstakingly tallied up the total number of words spoken in each household. What they found came to be known as the "word gap."
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Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think
How many American marriages end in divorce? One in two, if you believe the statistic endlessly repeated in news media reports, academic papers and campaign speeches.
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One-third of Americans reject human evolution
While nearly two-thirds of Americans say humans have evolved over time, a third of U.S. adults disagree, according to new survey results from the Pew Research Center. The Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project report released Monday found that 33% think "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time." Sixty percent agreed with evolution.
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What’s Next for Gay Rights in 2014?
The year 2013 was a banner one for gay marriage—but some LGBT activists are asking whether the movement is headed down the path to true equality and liberation.
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Coming Soon: Freedom for Slaves!
Slavery isn't just a scourge of the past. It is in your country, your city, even your neighborhood. But a solution is coming soon that will break the shackles that bind them all.
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Masturbation was once considered more offensive than child abuse
I've written many articles based on Victorian/Edwardian advice books. There was advice for everything, from how to improve your breast size to keeping your man faithful, all written with earnest authority by "experts" of the day. In these old books, I noticed that one subject appeared over and over, usually shrouded with dire euphemisms: The Solitary Vice. Self Abuse. The Vicious Habit.
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At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything
Protesters, buskers, preachers, the young: all could end up with 'ipnas'. Of course, if you're rich, you have nothing to fear
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Poland to shrink by over 2 million by 2035
The draft report by the Migration Research Academy - which will be published in full next spring - finds that following Poland joining the European Union in 2004, mass emigration has affected many regions of the country negatively. "Depopulation from permanent emigration, combined with low birth rates and an aging population, has caused significant disturbances to socio-economic development and will have an effect on the future development of these regions," the report says.
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Woman who took her own life over bedroom tax would have been exempt
A woman who killed herself last year, leaving a note in which she blamed her death on financial stress exacerbated by the bedroom tax, would have been exempt and eligible for a housing benefit refund were she still alive, it has emerged.
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The f-word is everywhere
Not long ago I received a complaint from a co-worker that I had used the f-word in a tweet. I was quoting a lyric from the band Vampire Weekend: "Who gives a f--- about an Oxford comma?" My answer was, of course, "I do." The full quote, without the fig leaf, appears in my book "The Glamour of Grammar."
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