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Woman leaves $40,000 at Md. shrine for safekeeping
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned to her when she got back a week later.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-11-19
Women deprived of health care at key moments: WHO
GENEVA (AFP) - Women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of puberty and old age due to social inequalities with men, the World Health Organisation said Monday.
Source:(AFP)
2009-11-09
Stigma part of breast cancer's grip on poor
WASHINGTON - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
Nations:Mexico Malawi Rwanda Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) - Rokaya Mohamed, an elementary school teacher, would rather die than take off her face veil, or niqab, thrusting her to the forefront of a battle by government-backed clerics to limit Islamism in Egypt.
Nations:Egypt Saudi Arabia Source:(Reuters)
2009-11-02
What do South Korean women really want?
Seoul, South Korea - Suddenly, this sprawling metropolis of approximately 10 million people is advertising itself as "women friendly" - and that's not a come-on to the millions of men for whom the term might have quite another connotation.
Nations:South Korea People:Lee Myung-Bak Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-10-27
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