It amazes me that a Head-of-State can be so stubbornly ignorant that he's actually denying the dying women and children of his country the proper treatment for HIV/Aids b/c he doesn't believe HIV leads to Aids...argh!

Quoted: Despite data suggesting better AIDS treatment courses are available in South Africa, the government has been slow to implement them.

This seems pretty obvious. But I'm skeptical about the small sample size...why only 13 mothers? Also, I'd be curious to know, given a bigger sample, if there are mothers who don't display these results and what implications that might have for child-rearing. Experiments on fathers would be cool too, as the article points out. Further, I wonder if they can do similar studies on animals...how cool would that be?

Quoted: A mother’s impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain, a new imaging study shows.

I've always had a hard time doing a push-up correctly...this is helpful!

Quoted: Fitness guru Jack LaLanne knows push-ups. During his 30-plus years on television, he regularly demonstrated the proper push-up technique and wowed us with feats of ...

Quoted: The Official International Women's Day 2008 website

March 8 is International Women's Day! So the next faves, are food for thought.

This particular topic is prevalent even in the US-- Girls not being able to wear certain types of clothing in primary and secondary schools, in fear of drawing negative male attention.

Quoted: 23 February 2008 - On 9 February 2008, remarks by the Chief Justice of Karnataka, Cyriac Joseph that immodest dressing was one reason for increasing ...

How awful and completely unacceptable!!! Ahh...I can't believe my country still does this. I hope this government intervention works...But the foundation of the problem isn't being dealt with, and that is: girls are valued less compared to boys. Unless we aim to change negative social stigma about the value of women, that they are more than just a way of lessening burden once married off, we can't just pay people off. This is ridiculous. We need to redirect focus on educating women, and educating the public against things like dowries and required domesticities of women (especially in the rural areas).

Quoted: By the time you finish reading this story, 10 more female fetuses in India will have been aborted. Aborted by a medical profession that profits ...

I'll be interning this summer with Dr. Yunus and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh!!

Quoted: Provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral. At Grameen Bank, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight ...

AGREED (w/article, not title) and my $0.02:

1) why do women always seem to be more critical of each other? we want change (equal pay, equal opportunities, equal this & that), yet on the verge of it, we're are afraid to support and embrace the one that can truly change this country,

2) Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1830s that American Democracy owes its supremacy to its women b/c they are the mores of the nation; women are the ones who bring about change, hope, and healthy mores b/c they instill it in the youth - the future. So if as Americans we are truly desiring a restoration of hope and a fervor for change, why NOT elect the woman?? Why NOT vote for the one with the experience and perseverance to turn those hopes into a reality?

Yes, have the "audacity to hope" but elect someone who can make it happen, not just someone who will blind you with the glory of hope and forget to deliver...

Quoted: So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because ...