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Women at Work I agree with Vivienne Walt's support for Rachida Dati's quick return to work [Jan. 26]. Here in France there is a Stepford Wives social pressure that is unimaginable elsewhere. I have lived here since 2006 and am aware of female peer pressure to conform to images considered permissible, laudable and responsible for women. Due to my traveling as an aid worker, being non-French and divorced, all sorts of labels are thrown at me, making it impossible to do almost anything alone. How sad when women have laudable goals and yet members of their...
...like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have to pay a price...
...treatment for tiny, preclinical breast cancers. "When you change from a high- to a low-estrogen environment, it's like giving breast cancer treatment," he says. "These are preclinical cancers that are below the level of detection, and that accounts for why biologically we can see such a quick effect in stopping hormone therapy." In the three-year WHI study alone, there were 20,000 preclinical breast cancer cases among the women who continued taking hormone therapy - cancers that may potentially have been avoided...
...initially blaming a small, unknown organization for the error, it seemed like Google had hoped to transfer blame, but officials at StopBadware rejected that notion and said that Google’s quick response to the error was impressive given the complex nature of the search engine...
Germans, used to being the butt of such comments, were quick to exploit the humor in Britain's floundering response to what the country's weather forecasters called an "extreme weather situation." "Where I come from, this isn't snow," a Croatian living in London told the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung. But "in Britain, different measurements apply," the paper added. Another publication from southern Germany, the Badische Zeitung, turned Britain's enduring addiction to wartime jokes back on their old adversary with a simple two-word headline: "London Capitulates...