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Motherlode Blog A Billionaire on Working Mothers Babies Kill Women’s Focus
Every so often, someone -- usually, but not always, an older white man -- decides to gather up his favorite old stereotype about women, dust it off, polish it up and give it a fresh airing. This time around, it’s a hedge-fund billionaire. Paul Tudor Jones told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others last month that when it comes to the laser focus needed to ...
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Kosovo moves against restaurants holding wild bears
PRIZREN, Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border ...
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Miami Diving hopes TV’s ‘Splash’ brings new interest in sport
Can a television competition show tell the story of diving?Briadam Herrera, 17, laughs at the question as he stands on the sun-baked pool deck at the University of Miami in Coral ...
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Possessed Graffito in Jerry Mitchell’s Bedroom Is a Daily Reminder
Not Jerry Mitchell, the director and choreographer of the new musical "Kinky Boots." He has been so single-minded in his pursuit of upbeat Broadway bravura that one would scarcely be surprised to learn that he had choreographed his own birth. ("Breathe kick, push kick, five, six, seven, ...
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T Magazine All the Rage | Japanese Whiskey Takes Manhattan
Suntory’s Hibiki 12-year whiskey with a food pairing by the chef David Bouley, served at an event at Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. Over the past week, hordes of bartenders, distillers, liquor reps and booze hounds have descended thirstily upon New York City for the fourth ...
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Trying to Turn a Castle Into a Cash Register
Highclere Castle who pay the $27 admission fee, buy the $14.50 guidebooks and don't leave without souvenirs like a $23 polo shirt with Highclere Castle etched on the ...
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Cynthia Nixon’s Embrace of Political Activism
Cynthia Nixon speaking this month at a fund-raiser, joined by, from left, Alan Cumming, Bill de Blasio and Mr. de Blasio's wife, Chirlane ...
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Penguin exhibit at Floridas SeaWorld will get 10 tons of snow daily
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - SeaWorld Orlando opened its "Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins" on Friday, a new attraction that will be coated with 10 tons of fresh snow each ...
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Intensive sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John ...
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Exclusive Non-Olympic sports organisation is at a crossroads but we can succeed says Presidential candidate Chiulli
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Letters Joyce Robertsons films had a huge impact on trainee social workers
Joyce Robertson and her husband James had a huge impact on me as a trainee social worker in 1969 and still inform my views on childcare and parenting. They deserved a much wider audience: the messages in them are still relevant for every carer who looks after very young children.I was once told that the film about "John", a powerful study of the breakdown, in a very short time, of a ...
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HM King Hamad Congratulates Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad on Sport Achievement in 18th Arab Athletics Championship
Manama, May 24 (BNA)--His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa held a telephone call today with First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport and President of Bahrain Athletics Association Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. HM congratulated him on the National Athletics Team's ability to grab third place, in general, in the 18th Arab Athletics Championship which was ...
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Hummels fitness boost for Dortmund
ESPN commentator Mark Donaldson gives his thoughts on how Borussia Dortmund should approach the all-German Champions League final against Bayern Munich on ...
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Some with defibrillators may safely play sports
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite expert guidelines advising against intense sports activity for people with implanted heart defibrillators, a new study suggests that some can compete without serious consequences. Researchers followed 372 athletes with defibrillators for about two and a half years and found that none died while running, skiing or playing sports like ...
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30 Things You Didn’t Know About Return of the Jedi
is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...
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Here Are 4 New Arrested Development Clips to Prepare You for the Weekend
In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...
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Violence against women and girls shifting culture | Editorial
the Oxford grooming trial .Bleak as it feels, perhaps some of this may be evidence of a long-overdue change in a moral climate which, as the Savile affair has revealed, was lethally complacent until all too recently. But it is also true that both technology and family breakdown have hugely increased the range of dangers girls and women face, and it is increasingly questionable whether either ...
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Alistair Overeem-Travis Browne added to UFC on Fox Sports 1
in Boston at "UFC on Fox Sports 1" on Aug. 17th. It should be noted that this clash of heavyweight titans is not the main event.After ...
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My Favorite Fitness App
Life truly began for me a few weeks ago when a box containing my UP by Jawbone – a wristband that tracks how you sleep, move and eat – arrived. Of course, meeting my husband, giving birth to my sons and watching my older son recently become a bar mitzvah trumped the joy any material possession has given me thus far in my life. Still, this tracker has made me very happy. It's ...
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Lifestyle New technology could end Kenyas historic land woes
Kilifi resident Pietro Cannabio knows too well the pain of owning land without having any access to it. He owns a seven-acre piece of land in Kilifi - plot L.R. No 17835 - that has since been transferred to another person who subdivided and sold ...
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People think theyre eating less than they are survey finds
By Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News People may realize that fast food isn’t health food, but they don’t realize just how fattening it really is, researchers report.They surveyed people eating at 10 burger, chicken, sandwich and doughnut chains and found they greatly underestimated just how much they were chowing down. The worst was Subway, which promotes itself as a healthier ...
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Tory minister will be left holding the baby – but don’t tell Vince Cable
While legislation to encourage fathers to take a bigger share in the care of very young children is being prepared, the youngest Tory minister in the relevant department is going to practise what the government preaches by taking two months' paternity ...
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T Magazine Take Two | Questlove vs. Klaus Biesenbach
Questlove and Klaus Biesenbach A dual review of what’s new. Questlove, the drummer for the Roots, and MoMA’s chief curator Klaus Biesenbach take on swimwear, a farmers’ market subscription service and ...
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On the Runway Blog Keeping it Classic in Cannes
The dominant look in Cannes at the amfAR dinner was natural glamour. Top row, from left to right: Irina Shayk, Heidi Klum, Isabeli Fontana; second row: Tanya Dziahileva, Chanel Iman and Karolina Kurkova, Stacey Keibler; third row: Milla Jovovich, Sharon Stone, Rosario Dawson; fourth row: Paris Hilton, a guest and Kylie Minogue. Cannes is one of those film festivals where the glamor is as ...
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Motherlode Blog When a Stranger Doesn’t Mean Danger
Raising healthy, happy, well-adjusted kids isn't easy. At Motherlode, we cover it all -- homework, sex, child care, eating habits, sports, technology, the work-family balance and much ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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