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Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton By Brett Arends Boston Herald Business Columnist Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 02:56 AM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it. “Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.” No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified...

Following is the daily "Profile America" feature for Monday, May 15 from the US Census Bureau: Profile America is one of the basics of most women's wardrobes went on sale for the first time on this day in 1940. Publicized as "Nylons Day," stores selected to carry the new product were mobbed. Some 63-million pairs of nylon stockings were sold the first year, but they soon became scarce as nylon production went to the war effort, such as parachutes. Nylon was the first artificial fiber. It was soon joined by many others, which have become a mainstay in making clothing...

Wis. Law Already Protects Mothers. MADISON, Wis. -- Asking a breast-feeding mother to cover-up could soon cost people in Wisconsin $200. A proposed bill by state Sen. Fred Risser would protect mothers who breast-feed in public from being harassed. Under Wisconsin law it is perfectly legal for a woman to breast-feed her child in a public place. But while the state law may be behind the mother, the public isn't always behind the law, Madison television station WISC reported. Michelle Morgan said she has run into problems trying to breast-feed her son, Ian, in public. "A woman basically said to...

BREASTFEEDING, backed for the health effects it bestows on the baby, also appears to reduce the mother's risk of developing adult onset diabetes, researchers said today. The protective effect probably comes from the way breast feeding uses up energy and keeps blood sugar levels stabilised, said the report from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. A look at women 15 years after they had their last baby "found that each year a woman breast feeds reduced her risk of diabetes by 15 per cent", said Alison Stuebe, a physician who led the study. The finding was...

A nursing mother was separated from her baby, handcuffed, and abruptly taken to jail and now, the state patrol and the Lakewood Police Department are investigating. The mother told 7NEWS' John Ferrugia that she was terrified and humiliated by police mistakes. It all began when the woman and her husband were pulled over during a routine traffic stop. "I doubled up kids in the back seat in belts. So they were restrained, but not properly. But ... it was my fault for not having them in there properly," said father Ricky Archuleta. Ricky expected a ticket but was surprised when...

by Karen Lynn Ford Other Articles by Karen Lynn Ford Modest Dress at Mass 08/27/05 About 12 years ago a woman in her early twenties went to Disney World. She loved Mickey Mouse and couldn’t wait to see him in person. She had a youthful love of everything the Magical World of Disney promised. In This Article...What I Wish I Had KnownA Detraction and DistractionStop Being So Mousy about It! What I Wish I Had Known Unfortunately, she also believed much of what she saw and learned in the “real world.” She thought that to get attention she needed to dress...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Miss Universe organizers scrambled on Thursday to calm a furor over photos of bikini-clad contestants posing near an ancient Buddhist temple in pageant host Thailand after the images infuriated religious leaders. The photos, which showed beauty queens on a Bangkok river cruise with the famed Wat Arun, or "Temple of Dawn," in the background, were swiftly removed from the pageant Web site. But religious leaders and culture watchdogs are still upset, saying the episode violated traditional values and morality just days before a key Buddhist holiday. "This is the time of Visakha Bucha when we are reminded...

Despite its official apology, MTV did not hesitate to promote the "unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional" incident after the fact. A Web page headline trumpeted: "Janet Jackson Got Nasty at the MTV-Produced Super Bowl Halftime Show." Continuing, the Web page said, "Jaws across the country hit the carpet at exactly the same time. You know what we're talking about ... Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and a kinky finale that rocked the Super Bowl to its core."