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Sep 15, 2009 -
Sunday's Mad Men told me more than I ever wanted to know about childbirth in the '60s. Betty Draper is hushed away from her husband upon arriving at the hospital, forced to fill out paperwork midcontractions, and bossed around by an unsympathetic nurse whose bedside manner approximates a warden's — you made your bed now have your baby in it.
What did I expect anyway — for Betty to have her baby in the master bath while Don burned lavender and massaged her shoulders.
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Aug 18, 2009 -
Women everywhere fight for their rights — but women in Afghanistan have it particularly bad.
BBC reporter Jane Corbin was invited by a French charity, based in Herat, Afghanistan, that treats women who have self-immolated. Most of these women set fire to themselves to escape a forced marriage or a violent husband.
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Feb 28, 2009 -
- Man Late For Flight Pretends He's an Air Marshal — Running late for a flight out of Florida, a man flashed fake police identification and claimed to be an air marshal. Once on board, the real air marshals recognized him as a fake and threw him off.
- St. Louis Family Struggles to Save Its Cave — A family that converted a mining cave into a home has a big payment coming up on the property.
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