Guinea's wounded president flown to Morocco

CONAKRY, Guinea – Guinea's president has been flown to Morocco for medical treatment after he was shot during an assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup, a government official said Friday.

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'Sun-Maid girl' makeover sparks controversy

When the iconic raisin girl sheds her traditional homely look, the critics pounce. Sun-Maid recently decided to join Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth's in giving the female face of their product a substantial makeover from a young, early 20th-century girl into a buxom, modern young woman, leading some to say that the newly made-over raisin girl looks like a Barbie Doll in Amish attire. For info please visit http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/108296/sun-maid-girl-makeover-sparks-controversy.html?mod=family-love_money

Passion Desert.....its worse than the foridden fruit

A dessert tiled 'passion dessert' sits on display at the annual gastronomy fair in Bogota, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. The dessert's ingredients include passion fruit and the active ingredient in Viagra, according to one of the dessert's creators Juan Sebastian Gomez. To learn more about this dessert please visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_colombia_passion_parfait

Strange Sexual Harrasment Case in NYC

Two women claimed they were sexually harassed by their boss at the Battery Park health club, but when they asked for help they were fired.

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Genital Herpes May Never Go Dormant

Herpes, the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital lesions, never truly goes into a dormant state, new research suggests.
As a matter of fact, even when it's not causing an outbreak, the virus is shedding tiny bits of itself in the genital tract. The study for these findings appears in the Nov. 18 issue of Science Translational Medicine.While the study did not specifically address whether or not the very small amounts of virus being continually shed are enough to infect someone else, the findings have the potential to change the way in which scientists view the life cycle of the disease.
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One in Four Teen Girls Have STDs

As many as one in four U.S. teenage girls have had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), many infected soon after their first sexual encounter, a new government report shows. This is a growing problem in the American community I think parents and the school system need to take a stronger approach in educating teens about sex.
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NY couple charged with forcing woman into sex work

NEW YORK – A young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in Brooklyn, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The woman was beaten so frequently by her captors, sometimes with bricks and wooden boards, that scars and bruises covered her body, according to a federal affidavit.
Domingo Salazar and his wife, Norma Mendez, appeared in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on sex trafficking charges and were being held without bail. Their attorneys had no comment.
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