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This Week in Science
In Science this week, a team led by Stanford University's Carlos Bustamante report that an amino acid change causes blond hair in Solomon Islanders . Naturally blond hair is usually only found in Europe and Oceania, but in this study, the team identifies an arginine-to-cysteine change at a highly conserved residue in TYRP1 as a major determinant of the trait in people from the Solomon Islands.
www.genomeweb.com
Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for at-Home Births
Ina May Gaskin, the original home-birth evangelist, is finally winning converts in the mainstream.
www.nytimes.com
Weigh pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy
A woman might consider hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, as a way to alleviate menopausal symptoms. Traditional hormone replacement therapy replaces the declining estrogen levels after menopause. Progesterone also is replaced in women who have not had hysterectomies. Estrogen helps to reduce hot flushes, night sweats and vaginal dryness, and can slow the development of osteoporosis (thinning ...
www.kentucky.com
Beauty plumbs a new low
A new vagina lightening cream is helping peddle self-hatred to women.
www.theage.com.au
Accused was in taxi on night driver was murdered: witness
Sharon Holden was cooking supper on a Friday night in May 2010 when she glanced at the television news and recognized the man she says threatened to kill her nearly three decades earlier.
ca.news.yahoo.com
The Indian obsession with fairer skin sinks to a new low
THE Indian obsession with fair skin has always been a distasteful phenomenon. The fairness cream industry is gigantic, with men as well as women lathering these silly potions on their faces to make their skin a few shades lighter.
www.theadvocate.com.au
Snow White and the Fugsman, plus Well Played, Chris Hemsworth
This went to a weird place.
gofugyourself.com
A Guide to Finding the G-Spot, Based Wholly On Songs About the G-Spot [Video]
# investigations Where is the G-spot? No one seems to know for sure, except for a gynecologist named Adam Ostrzenski , who examined a dead lady's vagina and found "grape-like clusters of erectile tissue" in a one-centimeter sac in between the fifth and the sixth layers of the dead lady's vaginal wall. This grape-like formation, Ostrzenski says, is the G-spot. More »
gawker.com
Cameron Diaz "I don’t know where life is going to take me"
Wearing faded grey jeans and a Vanessa Bruno navy dark blue short sleeved shirt, her blonde hair is shorter than the usual bob, and she’s wearing a few gold accessories. Starring in What To Expect When You’re Expecting, she plays opposite Glee’s Matthew Morrison as a fitness guru who becomes pregnant unexpectedly. About to turn 40, Diaz says she has no problem getting older, has a good attitude ...
ph.omg.yahoo.com
How To Be A Bald Woman
I got cancer. Then I got bald.
www.forbes.com
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