Scout Deidre

Writer, omnivorous reader, gadabout, spendy, brainy and rarely bored. I am the Scout for the real estate channel and am totally obsessed with the fluctuations of the housing market and love reading the stories from around the world that people submit. My personal blog is http://www.thefictive.com

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Net-a-Porter and Halston Rewrite Fashion Rules

Shopping – With high-street retailers getting designer copies into stores within weeks, and transeasonal collections creating confusion on the catwalks, the newly relaunching fashion brand Halston have decided to shake up the traditional industry structure by offering a selection of their new range on fashion e-tailer Net-a-porter the day after the show.

View Story Discuss (0) (psfk.com) 2 hours ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2008 08:27pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Mormon Women Emerging From Shadows

Women – Last fall, the head of the Mormon church's Relief Society delivered a treatise on motherhood that equated nurturing with keeping a tidy house. Women in poor countries who dress their daughters in clean, ironed dresses, the speaker said, honor a sacred covenant.

View Story Discuss (0) (ap.google.com) 22 hours ago by KLopez

Voted for on January 31, 2008 07:38pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Professor From Harvard to Be Barnard President

Women – Barnard College has named as its next president Debora L. Spar, a Harvard Business School professor who has written about the economics of the human fertility industry and the evolution of the Internet but has not previously been affiliated with a women's college.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 23 hours ago by KLopez

Voted for on January 31, 2008 07:38pm

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For an impoverished beauty queen, a stark choice: sex work or no work

Women – Three years ago she won two beauty contests and was runner-up in another two, including Miss Best Legs, on Nicaragua's impoverished Caribbean coast. With dreams of modelling she boarded a bus for the distant capital, Managua.

View Story Discuss (0) (guardian.co.uk) 23 hours ago by KLopez

Voted for on January 31, 2008 07:38pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Women in Gaza feel coerced into covering their heads

Women – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief says women in the Gaza Strip have recently felt coerced into covering their heads, while Christians there have faced rising intolerance.

View Story Discuss (0) (haaretz.com) 23 hours ago by KLopez

Voted for on January 31, 2008 07:38pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights - Asia, World - Independent.co.uk

Women – An Afghan Journalism Student, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report about Womens Rights from the internet.

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Voted for on January 31, 2008 07:37pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

In Oregon and U.S., green groups are mostly white

Do No Evil – In the mainstream green movement, being any color but white can be a little lonely.

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Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2008 03:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Guerrilla Girls - Anonymous Do-Gooders for Art

Art & Design – Known as the Guerrilla Girls, these women describe themselves as the feminist masked avengers with the mission to expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture.

View Story Discuss (0) (voanews.com) 21 hours ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2008 12:59am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks

Bill Would Bar Sex Offenders From Facebook and MySpace

Love & Personals – ALBANY ΓΆβ;¬" Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers, with the backing of the social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, are pushing a bill that would crack down on sex offenders' use of the sites.

View Story Discuss (1) (nytimes.com) 1 day ago by Dan and Jennifer

Voted for on January 30, 2008 09:37pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Hand gels alone may not curb infections

Health & Fitness – Doctors and nurses on the go often skip soap and water in favor of an alcohol-based hand gel, thinking the quick-acting goo will kill bacteria on their hands and curb the spread of infection. It turns out that's not enough.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 1 day ago by digitalfever

Voted for on January 30, 2008 09:09pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Dip Once or Dip Twice?

Food – Our annual national snacking binge is almost here. It would take a very large bowl indeed to hold all the guacamole mashed from the more than 100 million avocados that are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. Just in time, a scientific report has some new findings that may cause football fans to take a second look at that communal bowl of dip.

View Story Discuss (5) (nytimes.com) 1 day ago by Beau7890

Voted for on January 30, 2008 06:20pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Lesbian housewives

Gay & Lesbian – But whether they're making a post-feminist statement by reclaiming the home, have ditched their high-powered job for a life of domestic bliss, enjoyed being a mum too much to go back to work, or been pressurised to stay at home by a domineering partner, lesbian housewives are here to stay.

View Story Discuss (0) (afterellen.com) 1 day ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2008 06:10pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks

People happiest at start and end of lives, but slump in middle: study - Yahoo! News

Family – Happiness is U-shaped, for we are happier at the start and end of our lives but hit a slump when we are middle-aged, British and US researchers say.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 1 day ago by pagey

Voted for on January 30, 2008 05:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 21 votes / No sinks

Marriage Myths

Family – The world is full of advice for married couples, newlyweds or not -- some of it commonsensical, most of it well-intentioned, and much of it wrong. In the 14 years we've been married, my husband and I have broken all the rules at least once -- and when I copped to friends, most of them gleefully admitted they'd done the same.

View Story Discuss (2) (cnn.com) 1 day ago by Bkumm

Voted for on January 30, 2008 05:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Hit Man Gandolfini: Tony Soprano

Do No Evil – James Gandolfini - the "James Gandolfini - the "Sopranos" TV mobster who made a living rubbing out nuisances, including his own kin - whacked a self-proclaimed "No. 1 fan" in the face at JFK Airport yesterday."

View Story Discuss (1) (nypost.com) 1 day ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on January 30, 2008 05:12pm

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