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After Class, Skimpy Equality

2011-09-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

AT Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus party. “Hey Ladies,” the invitation leered, complete with a misspelling, “Whether your dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a slutty schoolgirl or just a total slut, we invite you...”

Yes, there was outrage: in the form of fliers plastered around the Duke campus reprinting the offending e-mail and asking, “Is this why you came to Duke?” And there was official indignation: The recently formed Greek Women’s Initiative will be tackling the subject of gender relations.

But a less-noted fact remains: hundreds of Duke women went to that Halloween party and many dressed as they had been asked.

As parents around the country send their children to campuses for the start of another academic year, what are we to make of the fact that lessons of equality, respect and self-worth have been heard when it comes to the classroom, but lost somewhere on the way to the clubs? Why has the pendulum swung back to a feeling that sexualization of women is fun and funny rather than insulting and uncomfortable? Why are so many women O.K. with that? Odds are that the women dancing at that Duke party had mothers who attended more than one Take Back the Night march in their college days. What has changed?

Lahore 2 Train are Strike with each other

2011-08-29T22:07:00.000-07:00

Two Trains are Strike with each other in Badami Bagh Lahore Station.

One Train are stoped in station but other are coming and strike with stoped train. 4 Bogian are out of control and slip from the track. 2 person are dead and 19 injured

Irene hammers North Carolina, stranding thousands on one island

2011-08-28T22:36:00.000-07:00

Hurricane Irene exacted a heavy toll on North Carolina, claiming at least six lives, peeling siding off houses and plunging hundreds of thousands of homes in darkness.
"The Outer Banks has taken a hit, and we saw damage everywhere we stopped," Gov. Bev Perdue said. "Lives have been lost, homes and property destroyed. But this storm could have been worse, and North Carolinians are resilient."
About 2,500 people who defied mandatory evacuation orders were stranded on Hatteras Island after pounding surf washed over dunes, covering roads with water and sand. The flooding cut off the island from routes leading to the mainland.
"There was a lot of carnage on Hatteras Island and I feel for those people," U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. William Lee told CNN after surveying the damage from the air.

Hurricane Irene Forcing Flight Cancellations

2011-08-26T21:23:00.000-07:00

If you are planning to fly to the East Coast this weekend, go to your airline's website and check your flight status -- and keep checking it.

Hurricane Irene is forcing airlines to cancel many flights.

According to Mike McCarron, the spokesman for San Francisco International Airport

McCarron advises passengers not to come to SFO unless they are certain their flight will depart as scheduled.

JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports will close to incoming flights Saturday at 9 a.m. PDT. Most departing flights have already been canceled.

On its Twitter feed, Delta Airlines announced that it has canceled all flights into and out of JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark International Airports on Sunday, Aug. 28.

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2011-08-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-24T22:02:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-21T20:40:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-18T21:15:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-17T22:40:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-16T21:36:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-14T21:20:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-12T21:41:00.001-07:00

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2011-08-11T21:42:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

Misery in world's largest refugee camps see here

2011-08-09T21:09:00.000-07:00

A drought, not seen in 60 years, compounded with near complete lawlessness and utter disregard for human life has made it so.It is hard to imagine, but dust and starvation are nearly everywhere you look, and the world's largest refugee camp is thick with misery on this night. The smell is a combination of the acrid sweetness associated with nourishment, anxious sweat and diesel fuel.The fuel is used to keep away the swarming flies. It stinks more than it repels.The children here are small, too small for their age. I met 5-year-old Jan-aw and saw him weigh in at 20 pounds. His brother is 4 and weighs closer to 15. And there is a youngest brother, Muhammad, just 3 months and light as a feather.There is something else about these boys as well. I have seen children all over the world suffering through wars and nature's retaliations, and yet I can always elicit a smile. Play a game, snap a picture, shake a hand and the smile will come. Not here.

British PM to hold crisis talks on riots, cleanup new starts and want better

2011-08-08T21:22:00.000-07:00

British Prime Minister David Cameron was to hold crisis talks on Tuesday after three nights of riots, looting and arson by masked, hooded youths that wrecked shopping centres in many parts of London and spread to three other cities.

Neighbourhoods across the capital faced a massive clean-up of smashed glass, bricks, bottles and gutted buildings as police reinforcements reclaimed the streets from the youths who had coordinated the looting via mobile phones and social media.

The rioting -- the worst in Britain for decades -- spread to districts across London, and what police called copycat violence broke out in Bristol in the southwest, Birmingham in the Midlands and the northwest port of Liverpool.

Late on Monday, as the violence died down, cars piled high with goods drove at high speed through London streets. Witnesses were told of numerous cases of car theft by groups of looters.

In the poor eastern district of Woolwich, passersby felt the crunch of broken glass underfoot and saw shattered shop fronts and streets strewn with stolen goods, tailors' dummies and other debris.

ISAF Confirmed US Helicopter Crashed in Afghanistan breaking news

2011-08-07T20:53:00.000-07:00

“ISAF is still assessing the circumstances that resulted in these deaths and recovery operations are currently underway,” the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in a statement.

International Security helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 30 U.S. soldiers, an interpreter and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single for foreign troops in 10 years of war.

The Taliban quickly claimed to have shot down the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.

In Washington, a U.S. official said the helicopter was thought to have been shot down. The Pentagon has said the cause of the crash is being investigated.

Hot Fashion Trends for 2011

2011-08-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

ATLANTA- The New Year is upon us and the fashion gurus have been hard at work designing hot clothing products. Here are some of the we might expect to show up in the trendy markets for 2011:

Local Looks

Local flavors abound with military style outfits as seen in some Atlanta and around town. Often the Atlanta weather changes without notice, so keeping a warm cardigan in tow while hitting on Peachtree Street and Lenox Road are a necessity.

Day Look

Potential designs customers should be on the lookout for: daytime fashions that include early colors, clean silhouettes and clothing such as the high waisted pants with belts, neck sweater tucked into pants or skirts and the layered look of the 70s with vests or other tops. Tops coming out will be silk and satin fashions with neat bows and billowing sleeves. You may even see 70s fashions like and

Sally Beauty reports a 68 percent profit increase today

2011-08-05T04:58:00.000-07:00

Denton-based Inc. reported a better-than-expected 68 percent jump in fiscal third-quarter profit Thursday, with trends such as hair extensions and feather adornments boosting its basic hair and nail supply business.

In a conference call with analysts, CEO Gary Winterhalter said the company’s domestic and international business is growing, and international now represents about 18 percent of total sales. In the U.S., the company’s Beauty Club Card membership increased 21 percent to about 5 million customers, he said. Those members visit stores more frequently and spend more, he said.

Human hair extensions have been a strong category for five years, and “we don’t see the trend slowing,” Winterhalter said. But supply is tightening, making it harder for mass merchant competitors to be in the category.

Human hair mostly comes from Asia, largely, he said. “There’s a shortage because 2 feet of hair takes a while to grow back.”

See Stylist and Street Style Favorite Katie Shillingford's Custom Gareth Pugh Wedding Dress beautiful dress

2011-08-04T04:17:00.000-07:00

couture, but he recently for his best friend and longtime collaborator, stylist Katie Shillingford, who was married last Friday. Shillingford wed Alex Dromgoole in the 1930s Art Deco-style Eltham Palace of Greenwich, England, wearing a custom pale grey slashed chiffon Pugh dress, complete with a trail that hung from her shoulders and a veil created by Stephen Jones.

Shillingford's bridesmaids — including Dazed & Confused and Another's Karen Langley, who helped design the wedding cake — wore black striped knitted dresses by Craig Lawrence, and Shillingford changed in a Fall 2011 Gareth Pugh gold dress and Fall 2011 shoes for the reception.