Having A Penis, No Longer Defines Man
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In a far-reaching decision that sets forth new legal criteria for gender identification, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday that J’Noel Gardiner, who had a sex change operation in 1994, is entitled to a court hearing on whether she should receive a portion of her late husband’s $2.5 million estate. A three-judge panel overturned a Leavenworth County probate judge who declared the 1998 marriage of Marshall and J’Noel Gardiner void because she “was born a male and remains a male for purposes of marriage under Kansas law.”
“we can no longer be permitted to conclude who is male or who is female by the amount of facial hair one has or the size of one’s feet.”
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/story,local/3accaa16.511,.html
Microsoft – WH0 D0 J00 WANT T0 0WNXOR T0DAY
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The back door was included in software shipped with Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system, the company confirmed. Hackers knowing how to exploit the vulnerability could access any site using FrontPage 98 extensions, Microsoft said. FrontPage, a Web authoring and site management software package, requires that special software code–or extensions–be present on the Web site for all features to be available.
To exploit the weakness, a hacker would also need authoring privileges on a particular Web server. By accessing a single file, called “dvwssr.dll,” the hacker could write a script allowing access to many more files on the site.
“This is a vulnerability because it allows an author on one Web site on a shared server to see anything on another server,” said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft’s Security Response Center. “That’s the extent of the vulnerability.”
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1696137.html
Yo, That Tie Be DOPE, Dawg!
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These days gang members don’t always look like thugs.
Taking advice from older criminals–some imprisoned, some retired but consulting, some still active–many hard-core gang members have traded their outfits for a more conservative look, a look police say enables them to expand into white-collar crimes without the early warning the old costume set off.
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010514/t000040581.html
Packaged Rebellion
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Coming soon to a store near you: Black Panther Party backpacks for the kids, a leather jacket for Dad and oversized Huey Newton T-shirts for Mom to wear around the house.
And now available on the Web: barbecue sauce from Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger and home-grown recipes from alleged Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/partners/ns/panthers_20010514.htm
British Mums-to-be Too Posh to Push
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The modern expectation of a pain-free life may be behind an increase in Caesarean sections in Britain, according to discussions at a recent Royal College of Midwives conference, where some midwives say comfortable, middle-class women are simply “too posh to push.”Caesareans account for 20% of births in the United Kingdom, up from 5% in 1972 and 10% in 1985. In Canada, 18.7% of hospital births were Caesarean sections in 1997-98, up from 17.7% five years earlier.
The study could not explain the decline in natural births, but suggested possible reasons included a desire to avoid pain or post-birth problems like incontinence, and the demands of working women to plan their childbirths.
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010514/562540.html
The New Ketchup
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After unwrapping her first McDonald’s cheeseburger, Jackie Wollenberg noticed a brownish-red stain on the bottom of the bun. Thinking it was juice from the beef, she tore that part of the bread away and finished the burger.
When Wollenberg unwrapped her second cheeseburger from its yellow paper, she saw what appeared to be a bloody fingerprint on the wrapper. Then she looked at the bun and saw two drops of something that looked like blood on the top.
Horrified, she went to the counter of the West Bay Boulevard restaurant and asked whether an employee had recently been cut. A young man with a bandaged hand who identified himself as a manager approached, she said.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/051301/NorthPinellas/Woman_says_burger_has.shtml
A Million Bullets For A Million Moms
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Stephen Pistolakis, 61, of Shawnee Drive was arrested late Saturday and accused of making terroristic threats against one of the organizers of the Million Mom March postponed yesterday in Albany, police said. The march was among several scheduled in New York state supporting gun-control measures.
He allegedly referred to marchers as “Nazis” in a message saying, “I’ve got a million bullets for a million Mothers,” on Vivian’s voice mail around 6:35 a.m. Friday, according to the police report.
http://www.injersey.com/news/app/story/0,2110,393601,00.html
