Miscellaneous

> Although it is safe, effective and legal, emergency contraception - the "morning after" pill - can be hard to find in Tucson. > After a sexual assault one recent weekend, a young Tucson woman spent three frantic days trying to obtain the drug to prevent a pregnancy,

They've made gender equality "advances" in other areas, why not in prison population? > Women made up 7 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday. > The number of women incarcerated

The city of San Fransisco, made out of jello. Pretty wild [http://www.lizhickok.com/assets/portfolio/pages/01city.html].

Interesting piece at the LA Times about Nigerian e-mail scams. I assumed these fraud attempts met with at least limited success, but figured they didn't net much. After all, if you have enough mental mojo to turn on your computer and log onto the Internet, you should have

More gay teens. It's WaPo's turn to normalize it and encourage it with a feature story called "Everybody Loves Andy." It's about all those high school kids who say they have a gay friend (Andy is the gay guy, in case you&

> According to a UK obesity expert when women move in with their man they very often put on weight as a result. > Men says Haslam are really very bad for women. > He says eating with a partner becomes a social event, where women often eat larger portions

A story of gilded lasciviousness. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TOPLESS_LAWSUIT?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-10-21-12-37-58] . Excerpts: > American Express is suing the CEO of a communications company for payment of $241,000 worth of disputed credit card charges at

The answer is obvious: More condoms and education. Don't those two things cure all such problems? > MSNBC.com and Zogby International asked online readers to share some intimate details about their personal lives, and more than 56,000 adult men and women – one of the largest responses

The dead language walks: > About 30 years ago, it seemed no one would. Critics called Latin a dead language, irrelevant and elitist. Even the Catholic Church, its strongest champion, no longer found it necessary in worship services. But it's been going strong lately, especially in Connecticut. In

Wait a second! With examples like these, I'm beginning to think doctors are far from omniscient when it comes to the status of comatose folk: > An Italian man who spent two years supposedly unconscious in a deep coma, written off by doctors as nearly-dead, awoke saying he