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...only are Arab women largely excluded from political participation - the report notes that most of the handful of Arab women cabinet ministers tend to hold symbolic rather than influential positions - they often suffer domestic violence, including so-called "honor killings," behind a societal cloak of silence. Laws often restrict women's personal liberties, for example by giving them lesser status than their husbands in divorce proceedings, and requiring the permission of a husband or father to work, travel or borrow from a bank...
...growing movement to restrict suspect chemicals in toys, baby bottles and other items used by pregnant women and children under three, has left parents wondering what they can do on their own to limit their kids' exposure to phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), so-called "endocrine disruptors" which can interfere with hormones that regulate gender. Animal and human studies have linked these substances to a broad swath of health problems, inlcuding prostate and breast cancer, and altered genital development. "Virtually all of us are regularly exposed to low levels of phthalates and BPA," says Shanna Swan, a University of Rochester...
...some years we’ve had to restrict flu vaccine to high-risk people because there’s been a limited supply in previous years,” said Rosenthal. “No limited supply this year...
...would allow the licensing commission of every municipality of up to 5,000 residents to issue five additional licenses for food stores to sell wine, and proportionally more for towns over 5,000 residents. One would think that such a proposal would be uncontroversial; 34 other states do not restrict grocery store sales of liquor. But liquor stores have much to lose from the passage of Question One—they currently control over 85 percent of wine sales statewide—and grocery stores have much to gain. But putting aside the special business interests, the average Massachusetts citizen...
...investment. Costing only $1.2 million, the picture did $55 million domestic and another $48 million abroad. Its sequel, made for $4 million, took in $87 million at home and another $57 million offshore. (The take is lower over there in part because European and Asian rating boards often restrict violent films to those over 18.) Those first two films earned nearly $250 million at the box office: that's a lot of Saw bucks...