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A judge has sentenced two teenage girls to 59 years to life in prison for killing a woman so they could use her car for a trip to Knott's Berry Farm. The crime occurred in 2007, when victim Angelina Arias gave the girls a ride home. Anna Salinas and Dayana Cordova were accused of shooting Arias, pushing her out of a car and driving to the amusement park.

Study: Chemicals in plastic can make boys act more like girlsBy Rosemary Black DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, November 16th 2009, 4:09 PM Chemicals found in many plastics are causing little boys to act more like little girls, according to new research. A team at the University of Rochester studying the safety of phthalates -- chemicals in the plastic used in many household objects – found that they can actually disrupt hormones, according to BBC News. The chemicals affect the baby's developing brain by deactivating testosterone, the male sex hormone, according to the BBC. In the study, scientists tested urine...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/12/work-office-white-house-office-faith-based-and-neighborhood-partnerships The Work of the Office: White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Posted by Joshua DuBois on November 12, 2009 at 02:15 PM EST President Obama announced the creation of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships on the 17th day of the President’s new Administration. Since then, our Office has been pretty busy! I thought it'd be helpful to give you a little context on what we've been up to. Our office is situated within the Domestic Policy Council. This placement allows our office to have close interaction...

Note: The following text is a quote: November 6, 2009 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and World Customs Organization Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya announce preliminary results of largest global cash smuggling operation BRUSSELS - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya today announced the preliminary results of Operation ATLAS-the largest multilateral operation in history targeting cash smugglers which took place from Oct. 26-30. More than 80 countries participated in Operation ATLAS (an acronym for Assess, Target, Link, Analyze and Share)-leading to more than $3.5 million in cash seized and...

SNIPPET: "PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Islamist militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's lawless Khyber tribal district Sunday, destroying the building and wounding four people in neighbouring homes, officials said. Two explosions ripped through the 18-room government high school for girls at Kari Gar village and a boy who watched the premises is missing..." SNIPPET: "Islamist militants, who have carved out a strong presence in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years. Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone...

Gender-bending chemicals are largely exempt from new EU regulations, warns Geoffrey Lean. Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream. The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution...

The study, conducted by Aletha Akers, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues, further links girls at weight extremes with an increased risk for engaging in sexual risk-taking behaviors. "This study will contribute to sexual health education prevention efforts, which can be tailored to address how cultural norms regarding body size may influence adolescent sexual decision making. Knowing how a girl perceives her weight may be just as important as knowing her actual weight," noted Dr. Akers. Of the nearly 7,200 high school girls asked about their sexual...

A SATANIST obsessed with teenage schoolgirls invented a fake gothic society online to groom them for sex in the grounds of Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery. Daniel William Peckham, 24, lured at least three girls, aged from 13 to 17, into the cemetery on his MySpace blog, "Rookwood Gothic Society". A message on the site read: "If you have hang-ups about getting naked ... you are not welcome." Peckham pleaded guilty yesterday to the aggravated sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl and to using the internet to solicit and transmit naked pictures of young girls between 2005 and 2007. The opening day...

Harper: Controversal Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15. Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia...

Spc. James Lewis, of Terra Alta, W. Va., hands out backpacks to a teacher at the new secondary school for girls in Tarmiyah, Oct. 20. Photo by Sgt. Jon Soles, MND-B. BAGHDAD – Thanks to funding from the Commanders' Emergency Relief Program, hundreds of girls in the Tarmiyah area, south of Baghdad, now have a modern new school. Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Regiment, were able to see first-hand the fruits of cooperation between Iraqi leaders as the new school was dedicated here, Oct. 20.U.S. Soldiers took the reins of the...

A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are 'deceptive'. The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday. The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra. If they are found wearing , they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said. Al Shabaab, which seeks to impose a strict interpretation...

CHICAGO (CBS) ― About one in seven girls at Robeson High School are pregnant. Officials say a variety of factors are to blame. Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing. All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.

Zahra Azadin, 14, stands in front of her new school in the Bnaslawa District of Erbil, Sept. 29. Zahra is one of 1,600 female students who began attending the school. Photo by Pfc. Justin Naylor, 1st Cavalry Division. KIRKUK — Dozens of girls from the Bnaslawa area of Erbil gathered to celebrate the opening of a new all-female school in their neighborhood, Sept. 29. The school is made up of 24 classrooms, and has modern amenities including a science lab, computer lab, auditorium, basketball court and a soccer field.The school's construction was originally initiated by the Republic of Korea’s Army...

On his first night off from rehearsals for the Bavarian State Opera’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Polanski went out to dinner with a German critic and two young women. Afterwards, the four returned to Polanski’s two-bedroom hotel suite. The director took one of the girls to bed while the critic took the other, but when Polanski emerged from his room during the night he discovered that the critic had gone home, leaving his date – who called herself “Nasty” – sprawled in an armchair in the sitting room. Polanski immediately invited her to join him and his partner for what...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2009 AT 4:26 PM The UN, Women & Girls Posted by Jennifer Simon Ed. Note: Thanks to the Council on Women and Girls for keeping us updated. The status and role of women and girls was featured prominently in official events throughout the week in New York, during the opening of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. Ambassador Rice was pleased to welcome Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the White House Council of Women and Girls, to...

Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured. A timed explosive device is believed to have caused the explosion that badly damaged the school on the outskirts of Peshawar, police officer Hamdullah Khan said. Al-Qaida and Taliban militants hold sway across much of northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan and have often targeted girls' schools in both country's because they believe that women should not be educated. The military has launched large...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 2009 AT 12:50 PM The Council on Women and Girls' new site Posted by Christina M. Tchen Welcome to our new website! As the Executive Director of the Council, I’m very excited to launch this site as we commemorate Women’s Equality Day on August 26. On this day when we remember the bravery and struggles that won women the right to vote, we are very pleased to add this website to share with everyone the work of this Administration to address the issues of...

LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Aug. 19, 2009 – With help from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, a local businessman and contractor in the Alingar district of Afghanistan’s Lagham province delivered enough school supplies to the Parwai Girls School here Aug. 17 to keep more than 50 children supplied for a year. Abdullah Ajabgul, owner of a local construction company, distributes school supplies to the students of the Parwai Girls School in Afghanistan’s Laghman province, Aug. 17, 2009. U.S. Army photo   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Abdullah Ajabgul, owner of Homyoun Rafi Construction Co., identified the students’ need for...

While Title 9 has increased the participation of young women in high school and college sports, it has done nothing to address the most serious source of catastrophic injuries for young women -- cheerleading. Data from the Consumer Products Safety Commission show that the number of catastrophic injuries -- those involving death or disability caused by head or spine trauma -- have grown from fewer than 5,000 in 1980 to 26,000 to 28,000 per year in the last few years, according to Dr. Amy Miller Bohn, a family medicine specialist at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor....

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday. Naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped the girls drag the plows.

IPT News July 8, 2009 A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah. In her remarks, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and International Affairs Valerie Jarrett noted she was the first White House official to address ISNA. She spoke in general terms about interfaith dialogue and cooperation. She praised her hosts for "the diversity of American organizations, and ideas that are represented and will be...

7/1/2009 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- Haish Saidqi Girls' School in the Panjshir province in Afghanistan resounded with laughter of children for the first time June 23. Panjshir Governor Haji Bahlol dedicated the school-opening ceremony in honor of Lt. Col. Mark E. Stratton II, the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team commander who was killed May 26 when a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device against the PRT's convoy. The Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team demonstrated its commitment to education by joining Governor Bahlol, Zulami Saheen, the province's director of education, and other distinguished guests to celebrate the school's grand opening....

Living at the legendary Playboy Mansion in California, becoming big-time models and being the girlfriends of Hugh Hefner has been a blast, even more so than Karissa and Kristina Shannon could have imagined. Yet the 19-year-old twins admit they sometimes get a little homesick. In particular, the onetime Clearwater residents miss Clearwater Beach, Ybor City's nightlife, their favorite radio station (WLLD-FM 98.7), their friends, and of course, their family. "We try as much as we can to visit," Kristina Shannon said in a phone interview this week. Every time they do, they're a little more famous. A year ago, the...

“Behind every great woman, you will find her dad.” According to an article by Joanne Richard in the Edmonton Sun, that’s the kind of extraordinary power that a father has over his daughter. Dr. Mary Jo Rapini, a psychotherapist and author, declares that the way a dad treats his little girl determines how she will feel about herself as a woman. If fathers admire their daughter’s achievements, character, and looks, says Dr. Rapini, that girl will become a confident and self-assured person who will choose a husband who treats her the same way. In fact, Dr. Rapini echoes the old...

BAGHDAD, June 25, 2009 – Eight months of work by U.S. soldiers and Iraqi Education Ministry officials culminated in a June 23 ceremony celebrating renovation of the Baghdad School of Arts for Girls in the Iraqi capital’s Mansour district. Army Lt. Col Christopher Beckert looks at works of art created by students of the Baghdad School of Arts for Girls in the Mansour district of northwestern Baghdad, June 23, 2009. Through efforts of coalition forces and the Iraqi Education Ministry, the art school has received new equipment. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brian Tierce  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....

The princess industry has been booming in the past few years -- not just the Disney dolls and scratchy toy-store ball gowns that are a rite of passage in most American girlhoods, but a brazen new breed of princess products that target a far wider age range and tap into less seemly attitudes. The hot-pink, leopard-print princess backpacks, T-shirts, purses and bedspreads that girls are now buying (or, rather, their parents are buying for them) have little to do with indulging sweet princess fantasies and everything to do with catering to over-indulged princess egos. [Taste] Sara Schwartz Take the popular...

Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Visiting the schools is a dangerous proposition -- a trip leading directly into the heart of Islamist territory. When the deputy director of Aqtash High School talks of the government, he isn't referring to Hamid Karzai's central government in Kabul. Nor does he refer to the provincial administration in Kunduz. "The Taliban are our government," Bashir says. "They have taken over our region, their commanders give the orders here." Bashir is standing in a dusty classroom on the ground floor of...

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls' school, a doctor said on Monday, in the second such incident in a month. The headmaster rushed his students out of their classrooms in the northern town of Charikar after they smelt an unusual odour and started feeling nauseous and dizzy, a 17-year-old victim told Reuters from her hospital bed. "I am pretty sure whoever has done this is against education for girls, but I strongly ask the parents not to be discouraged by such brutal action and send their children...

All Things Considered, May 1, 2009 · Public education is among the many casualties of the growing war in Afghanistan, and the threat of violence is especially acute for Afghan girls. Parents, who in the past did not allow their daughters to go to school because of societal taboos, are once again keeping them at home because of the threat of attacks by militants wielding acid or worse. But many girls are refusing to give up their schooling — no matter what the cost.

Note: The following text is a quote: April 26, 2009 Taliban bombs kill 16 children To which a Pakistani minister asserts, "The Taliban have exposed their real face by killing innocent children." His point, apparently, is that by killing children, the Taliban have proven that they are behaving un-Islamicly: after all, did the prophet himself not say that women and children should not be killed (only enslaved)? Yet, when jihadis asked Muhammad if it was permissible to attack infidel villages indiscriminately even if women and children were there, he flatly said, "They are from among them," which jurists have long...

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Loganville police said they arrested a man after he entered the automobile of two female waitresses from Hooters. Police said Christopher Childers, 40, saw the two 19-year-old girls walk into a Wal-Mart to do some shopping. While they were in the store, Childers allegedly got into their car. Police said Childers found pictures of the girls in their uniforms which he placed in his truck. He then got back into the girls’ car to wait for them, police said. When the girls returned, one girl slammed Childers leg with the car door and the other called...

There are no Taliban in the Kashmir Valley, Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor claimed on Tuesday. "We have had no traces of Taliban. But I would like to say, if any element... whether it is LeT (Lashkar-e-Toiba), JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammad), HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami)... whenever an element tries to disrupt peace in a region he will be dealt with in the same fashion. He will be neutralised," said General Deepak Kapoor. The Army chief also assured that the borders will be guarded during polls. "We had already foreseen all this happening. We are quite well prepared for it. We did expect, because...

Pakistan: Anonymous "miscreants" blow up girls' school Once again, the unknown miscreants vent their rage on girls' schools. Of course, had this report explained the stated goals of these "miscreants" -- the total application of sharia, including keeping females uneducated -- this story would make a bit more sense. "Miscreants blow up girls' school at Bannu," from Geo TV, April 5: BANNU: Some unidentified miscreants have blasted with explosives a girls' school in the town here. Sources said that the miscreants this morning blasted with a bang a girls’ school located in the vicinity of Miryan police station here by...

EDMONTON -- Somewhere in the city, children as young as 11 and 12 are gathering in basements and playing intricate, graphic sex games. I first heard about these parties a few years ago from my 12-year-old daughter, who said kids at her school played games where each girl had to perform oral sex on several boys

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March 23, 2009 MARDAN: Unidentified men blew up a girls’ school in Mardan on Sunday. According to police sources, the men planted explosives near Government Girls High School Hattian, located near the residence of NWFP senior minister Rahim Dad Khan.

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Executive-Order-Creating-the-White-House-Council-on-Women-and-Girls/ THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release March 11, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - ESTABLISHING A WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL ON WOMEN AND GIRLS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows: Section 1. Policy. Over the past generation, our society has made tremendous progress in eradicating barriers to women's success. A record number of women are attending college and graduate school. Women...

“Bend down,” Lisa tells me as we cruise past a pickup truck at a deserted Garden Grove park about 10 p.m. Her twin sister Teresa crouches in the trunk of our rented Ford Fusion and I’m in the back seat with a notebook. Tonight I’m riding with bounty hunters — you know, like Duane “Dog” Chapman. They carry no guns. But they’re willing to pepper-spray or taze unwilling fugitives, tackle men three times their size and, some nights, slap them in girly PINK handcuffs.

Students at the Irshad Secondary School for Girls wave flags and display flowers as they sing and chant during the opening ceremony of the school, Feb. 26. The school enrolls the top 20th percentile of girls aged 13-15 from Diwaniya and surrounding areas. Photo by Sgt. Rodney Foliente, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs. CAMP ECHO — Some of Diwaniya’s brightest female students happily participated in their new school’s opening, Feb. 26. The Irshad Secondary School for Girls, which enrolls some of the brightest teen girls in the city, was built by the Army Corps of Engineers working with the local...

Four women, accused of flashing bar patrons at "The Barn," in Sanford, were arrested after attending a "Girls Gone Wild" party on Thursday. Of the over one-thousand attendees, Joyce Lourcey, of Middleburg, Kathryn Giannobile, of Sanford, Christine Goncalves and Migdalia Rodriguez, both of Deltona, were hauled-off in handcuffs for indecent exposure. “Sanford had a strict nudity law and anyone that violated it with any type of flashing would be arrested,” said Cleo Cohen from the Sanford Police Department. Nudity is strictly prohibited in Sanford. "The Barn" owner, Eric Tims, posted signs about the town ordinance, but despite that, the women...

DIWANIYAH — Female students in Diwaniyah are celebrating the unveiling of a new secondary school for girls. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the Al Irshad Secondary School for Girls Feb. 26 to celebrate the completion of the new $1.2 million facility. The 12-classroom, multi-level school includes a laboratory, library, storage rooms and administrative buildings for 360 students. Iraqi contractor Al-Kahlaa Company began the project in December 2007 and employed 50 local men during construction. Speakers at the ceremony included Shakir Ne’ma abid-own, director general of education for Diwaniyah Province, Michael Klecheski, lead for the Diwaniyah Provincial Reconstruction Team, and...

School officials are investigating a fight that broke out during a high school girls soccer match on Tuesday between Sanger and Reedley

DALLAS -- A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse. Per the rules, only an excerpt allowed on AP stories. Read the full story at the link.

Students at Al Karama School for Girls in the Suleikh neighborhood of Baghdad strike up a conversation at the joint humanitarian assistance drop conducted by Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers, Jan. 19. Photo by Photo by Scott Flenner, 4th Infantry Division. BAGHDAD — Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers handed out humanitarian aid packages to children attending Al Karama School for girls in the Suleikh district here, Jan. 19. The patrol left early in the morning from Forward Operating Base War Eagle to link up with their IA counterparts in Suleikh to conduct their first joint-HA drop during the...

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WEST HOLLYWOOD -- Firefighters are trying to determine the cause of a massive fire at a landmark strip club in West Hollywood. Firefighters were sent to "The Body Shop" strip club at 8250 Sunset Boulevard around 6:45 a.m. Thursday morning. Flames could be seen shooting through the roof. The fire was mainly confined to the attic, fire inspector Frank Garrido said. The fire was extinguished within an hour, but the building sustained about 70 percent damage. Sunset Blvd. was closed in both directions between La Cienega and Crescent Heights. People in nearby buildings were evacuated, but the fire was contained...

They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom. But the members of Saudi Arabia's first all-girl rock band, The Accolade, are clearly not afraid of taboos. The band's first single, ‘Pinocchio,’ has become an underground hit here, with hundreds of young Saudis downloading the song from the group's page on MySpace (pictured). Now, the pioneering young foursome wants to record an album in secret places far from censorship. All four members of The Accolade are women: Dina, the group’s...

Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated out to space during a repair trip. The briefcase-sized tool bag drifted away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper on Tuesday as she cleaned and lubed a gummed-up joint on a wing of solar panels on the space station. She and fellow astronaut Stephen Bowen were midway through the first of four spacewalks planned for the mission. The tool bag was one of the largest items ever lost by a spacewalker. As Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned up...

CAMP ECHO, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2008 – In addition to their mission of restoring and improving Iraq’s infrastructure, civil-military operations soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, also are adjusting to the changing dynamics of operations as U.S. forces turn more areas over to Iraqi control. A 2nd Brigade Combat Team soldier stands amid the foundation for a new school to be built in Iraq’s Qadisiyah province. U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Keith Phelan  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “In Diwaniyah, I have been working with the...