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• Web site lets women register their inaugural dress
You search for weeks before finding the perfect gown for an inaugural ball. You're thrilled; its silhouette and color are exactly what you had imagined. Then, on the night of the fete, you spot another woman wearing the same dress. A new Web site ...
• Canadian polygamist leader arrested
Blackmore has openly admitted to having numerous wives and dozens of children but has said the community abhors sexual abuse of children. Oppal said Blackmore, 52, is alleged to have committed polygamy with 22 women, while Oler, 44, is accused of ...
• Mantyhose’: Not your mom’s pantyhose
For more than a decade, Mack wore women's pantyhose under his clothes to keep him warm while he worked as a landscaper. But four years ago, Mack, 35, discovered "mantyhose" —pantyhose for men. "It's nice because they are specifically made for men ...
• Poorer education tied to preterm birth risk
NEW YORK - Pregnant women with low levels of education are nearly twice as likely as their more educated peers to give birth prematurely, researchers from the Netherlands report. However, most of the risk can be attributed to the disadvantages that ...
• The city and life I have known no longer exist’ 
I saw about 150 men and women gathered to buy bread — but standing in separate lines. The men complained the women, normally so deferential to men, kept pushing, so now they have two lines. There are few cars on the roads, and most of those are ...