Striking worker committed to her cause
About 130 employees, most of them women, at the Congress Plaza Hotel have been on strike since June 15, 2003, after management, declaring an impasse in contract negotiations, cut their...
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Sizing up bra fittings and breast self-exams
Wacoal America fit specialists were doing their best to help women find their proper bra sizes and encouraging them to do breast self-examinations and schedule mammograms Friday, during a Fit...
Sun Safety: What you don’t know can hurt you
The incidence of two milder forms of skin cancer has nearly tripled among women younger than 40, a Mayo Clinic study released last week reported. These cancers are appearing not...
How to live the good life
One of the newer publications on the magazine racks is Vitals Woman, a quarterly compendium of insider tips and fun facts about mostly pricey consumables and fashionable lifestyles. Here are...
Jailbait: A troubling topic is fodder for teen novel
Leslea Newman, a prolific author of books for readers of all ages but especially children and teens, has tackled the troubling subject of sexual relationships between teen girls and adult...
Lobbying for cancer awareness
Most women are aware of the need for early breast cancer detection, but they may be in the dark about another killer: ovarian cancer. "The symptoms of ovarian cancer should...
Boomers achieve hoop dreams
Seven Evanston Baby Boomers who found a common love of playing basketball are participating in the 2005 Senior National Summer Games, part of the Senior Olympics, which began Friday in...
Network puts focus on moms
Moms looking for parenting information at all hours have a new source of information: Alpha Mom TV, a new digital cable, video-on-demand television network that as of press time was...
With midlife comes wisdom, survey shows
A few years ago, Jane Glenn Haas, a columnist for the Orange County Register, began thinking about "the feminine mystique generation" and its attitudes about aging, marriage and other matters....
Kit, T-shirt aid in breast exams
We all know that breast self-examination is one of the keys to early detection of breast cancer in its most curable stage. But how many of us actually do it--or...