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• Slate Reverts Women's Site DoubleX As A Section; No Longer A Standalone

  PaidContent - 2009-11-16

  Slate is pulling the plug on women’s news and views site DoubleX and will fold the content under that heading back into the media group’s main site, the NYT reported. It was only six months ago that Slate formed DoubleX out of its XX Factor blog. Back in February,...

  Tags: SLATE, Women, Washington Post Co., DoubleX, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, David Kaplan

• Cool body-chilling devices help brain, spinal and cardiac injuries

  - 2007-10-22

  WHO SAYS hospital garb can't be cool? Not Manuel Gonzalez-Brito and John Kuluz, professors of pediatric critical care medicine at the University of Miami. They're researching how body-chilling devices minimize injuries tied to cardiac arrest, as well as brain and spinal cord traumas. Mild hypothermia induced by...

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• Calcium supplementation seems to make breaks less likely

  - 2007-09-10

  AS PEOPLE age and their bones weaken, fractures become more common. Does taking calcium and vitamin D supplements help reduce fracture risk? A study analyzed data from 17 studies, involving 52,625 people older than 50 (average age, 68) who had been randomly assigned to take calcium, usually...

  Tags: caffeine, fracture, gene, headphone, physician, vitamin, Washington Post Co., women

• Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation

  - 2007-01-01

  In DECONSTRUCTING TYRONE: A NEW LOOK AT BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE HIP-HOP GENERATION (Cleis Press, $14.95), journalists Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore examine Black masculinity from a variety of perspectives, looking not for consensus but for insight. Tyrone is the Black man seen through the media lens, through stereotype,...

  Tags: Chicago, journalist, Washington Post Co., women

• News Challenger.(The Business of Life)(Hannah Rosenthal of Chicago Foundation for Women)(Brief article)

  - 2006-09-18

  Byline: Dan Weissmann Hannah Rosenthal, 55, is executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, which gave more than $1 million to 115 local organizations in its most recent fiscal year. What she's reading: On paper: the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago...

  Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Tribune Co., Washington Post Co., women

• "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights," headlined a front-page Washington Post article examining memos the Supreme Court nominee wrote as a young counsel in the Reagan White House

  - 2005-09-12

  * Roberts Resisted Women's Rights," headlined a front-page Washington Post article examining memos the Supreme Court nominee wrote as a young counsel in the Reagan White House. "Neanderthal," proclaimed NOW president Kim Gandy about Judge Roberts's analyses of a 1983 "comparable worth" lawsuit, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gender-preference proposals....

  Tags: president, Washington Post Co., White House, women

• Rail

  - 2005-05-11

  Stocks The stocks appear on Page 7D Men and women may disagree on a lot of things, but in one area of life they are in near-perfect agreement. If they had the choice, they would work fewer hours, according to a recent Washington Post- ABC News...

  Tags: Associated Press, General Motors Corp., job, Washington Post Co., women

• Congo: U.N. peacekeepers violate women

  - 2005-01-01

  AfricaUnited Nations peacekeepers in the Congo have used child prostitutes and in some cases kidnapped and raped girls and women, a draft report says. Peacekeepers have threatened retaliation against U.N. investigators who are trying to learn about the crimes."Sexual exploitation and abuse, particularly prostitution of minors, is widespread and long-standing,"...

  Tags: Pakistan, U.N., Washington Post Co., women

• LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG

  - 2004-12-03

  Byline: The Register-Guard Medical liability system failing On Nov. 21, The Register-Guard published a column written for The Washington Post by William Brody, president of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. Unfortunately, in an apparent effort to continue to justify their own position opposing...

  Tags: Games, officer, Washington Post Co., WEP, women

• Bush Pre-Election Promises vs. Post-Election Budget; Democrats Fan Out to Tell Voters How Much Bush's Reelection Will Cost Them

  - 2004-06-01

  WASHINGTON, June 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new report out today from the John Kerry for President campaign uncovers the state-by- state impact of the Bush administration's secret budget plan to cut major spending in 2006 if the President is reelected. Using the report, Democrats this week will hold events...

  Tags: America, analysis, Bush, Democrat, Government, president, Washington Post Co., women