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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Fashion's Sexualization of Tweens

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Billions of dollars are on the line in the fashion industry which targets the 8-to-12 set known as tweens. But it's a line increasingly blurred between cute and hot, adorable and sexual.
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Ohio demolition goes awry, 275-foot tower tumbles wrong direction, knocks out power to 4,000
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The wife of a suburban mayor testified Wednesday that he once petrified her by placing a large caged cockroach against her face after a fight.
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A Japanese man has committed suicide live on the internet after being egged on by users of an online chat room.
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Police say a 25-year-old Connecticut man who was shot twice after buying a sandwich at a New Haven deli went home and ate his lunch before going to the hospital.
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.. a laid-off attorney ... started the Butch Bakery to make cupcakes for men.
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LYNDA Carter is embroiled in a bitter feud with Megan Fox over her trashing of Wonder Woman.
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RAYMOND McLaren believes in "better late than never"- even when "late" means more than 50 years.
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A DAD-of-two had a brain tumour the size of a penny removed — after doctors pulled it out through his NOSE.
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THE Earth faces a new environmental threat, scientists have warned - global DIMMING.
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Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group.
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AN underwater photographer got the fright of his life when a shark snatched the camera from his hands.
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Three Murrah High School basketball players have sued their coach and the school system over alleged whippings.
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The world's highest-flying paper plane: British team send homemade aircraft to the edge of space before it flies back to Earth
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Scientists have created a ‘Mighty Mouse’ with muscles that stay powerful as it grows old.
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THE 19-year-old "Barefoot Bandit," who is accused of a two-year string of thefts from America to the Caribbean, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle.
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Two sisters on the Central Oklahoma golf team are celebrating holes-in-one recorded in the same round.
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AMAZON.com Inc is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to paedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the internet and threats to boycott the retailer.
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A BRITISH bar has been fined £1600 ($2562) for letting customers dance.
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Images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs are just some of whats in store in graphic new warning labels.
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THE Queen's Facebook page has attracted nearly 200,000 visitors — in the TWO DAYS since its launch.
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Fla. shoppers watch huge security detail around a Lady Gaga look-a-like.
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The U.S. military’s flying car will be getting some robot assistance from Carnegie Mellon.
Pentagon's Flying Car Getting Robot Pilot
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Police Say Western Pa. Man Smoked Pot, Not A Cigar, At Hospital To Celebrate Baby's Birth
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An Arizona man accused of hurling oranges at parked planes was caught red-handed after police found him in an orange grove smelling of spray paint.
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Hundreds of students caught in a cheating scandal at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have been given a choice: Come clean or face the consequences
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Military and Civilian Experts Now Say It Was an Airplane, Not a Missile, that Left Mysterious Vapor Trail off Calif. Coast
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