Scout KLopez

I've been living in Brooklyn since I was a Zygote. Graduating from College May 18th! Anyone want to hire me? Possibly in California? eh? eh?

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A Serious Obsession With Playgrounds

Family – Rose H. Harvey takes play grounds quite personally. So personally that she is driven by an unusual agenda: by 2010, she intends that as many as 300 underachieving New York City schoolyards will morph, at an average cost of $1 million each, into vibrant outdoor playgrounds to invigorate the all-too-stationary PlayStation generation.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:55pm

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Legal Hurdles Stall Rape Cases on Native Lands

Women – "Bonnie never reported the rape. She says she had been told many times by her mother and other relatives that nobody was going to take a case involving an Indian girl getting raped." It amazing that this is still a large problem.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:54pm

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Political fashionbabble

Women – "AMONG the endless reasons I will never run for public office is a deep-seated fear of having my wardrobe subject to the fashion police. Excuse me, the fashion shrinks -- those media monitors who seek deep meaning in every shoe, sexual clues in every hemline, and psychological insights in every shirt collar." It's true!

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:51pm

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Taliban Orders Girls Into Veils in Border Areas

Women – The growing Talibanisation of the porous border areas has meant that girls' education has been under attack as it was under the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan when women's education was deemed un-Islamic and women banned from even being seen in public without male escorts.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:47pm

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The Washington Post goes digital

Money – Today a small army of bloggers, podcasters, chatroom hosts, radio voices and TV talking heads, as well as a few old-fashioned ink-stained wretches, populates the newsroom at the 131-year-old Post. They understand that Donald E. Graham, the chairman and CEO of the Washington Post Co., is hurrying the paper into the digital future.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:46pm

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College Students Face Rising Birth-Control Prices

Women – College students returning to campus in a few weeks will be greeted by steep increases in one of the few items they have been able to buy cheap: birth control. Students pay perhaps $15 a month for contraceptives that otherwise can retail for $50 or more.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 29, 2007 08:42pm

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Harley Woos Female Bikers

Women – American women are the fastest-growing part of the motorcycle business, buying more than 100,000 of them a year. Even though aging baby-boomer men, with money to spend and time on their hands, have played a big role in expanding the market in recent years, motorcycle companies are trying hard to woo women buyers.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 25, 2007 11:13pm

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The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Women – The Supreme Court decided this spring to uphold a federal law that allows state legislatures, if they choose, to criminalize one form of second-trimester abortion, known as partial-birth abortion. Procedures beyond 12 weeks account for 12 percent of the country's 1.3 million abortions a year.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 25, 2007 11:12pm

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YouDebate: If Only the Candidates Were as Interesting as the Questioners

Politics – "The debate was certainly more lively than the usual candidate face-off. If the now-familiar line-up of Democratic candidates is going to provide yet another familiar answer to yet another question about global warming, why not have it asked by a talking snowman?" What the writer says is true, it's a shame nothing more came of it.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 25, 2007 10:54pm

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Breast cancer rate higher in wealthy suburbs

Women – WOMEN living in Sydney's wealthy north shore and eastern suburbs are far more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer. The Cancer Maps for NSW, to be released this week, reveal breast cancer is likely to be at least 17 per cent higher in some of the city's most expensive suburbs.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:58pm

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New Leaders Say Pensive French Think Too Much

News – France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, Descartes's one-liner, "I think, therefore I am," and the solemn pontifications of Jean-Paul Sartre and other celebrity philosophers. But in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:56pm

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Hormones: Is age the key?

Women – those younger than 60 who have troublesome menopausal symptoms -- hormone therapy has recently been given something of a reprieve. A new analysis of the Women's Health Initiative data suggests that the hormone story is actually two stories -- one for women near the age of menopause and one for women age 60 and older who are a decade past that life

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:54pm

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UK's women asylum seekers

Women – They have fled torture, rape and oppression, often leaving their children behind, in the hope of finding sanctuary. But once here, they have to contend with destitution - and a government system geared up to sending them back.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:52pm

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Ugandan Science Scholarships Tilt Against Women

Women – Uganda's decision to bestow more of its university scholarships on science students worries gender advocates in a country where female scientists face strong cultural bias. Seventh in a series on higher education in Africa.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:51pm

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One husband sticks by his wife despite society's pressure

Women – Nobody would have blamed Omar Abdullah Al Bakar for divorcing his wife last year in his distant village in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. But Mr. Al Bakar who is blind took the cultural road less traveled.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2007 08:50pm

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