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POPSGender And Society I'd like to talk about gender identity in my personal life. As I grew into adolescence and my girlfriends talked about boys, I felt bored, but I wanted to date to be like the others. An other than heterosexual identity never occurred to me. So I got married and it was a good marriage; I had two beautiful daughters and I genuinely liked men. What kept me from being aware of my sexual orientation before things became so complicated? I think it is because heterosexuality is the only normative relationship in our society, and I was led to believe I was heterosexual when I wasn't. Girls are often discouraged from speaking their own truths so often that they tend to deny or ignore them or set them aside. I often felt like I was playing a role as a feminine creature while putting on lipstick and talking about boys to my friends. I thought this is what a woman is supposed to do. Sometimes I feel anger at society for being herded in that direction.
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POPS13 Doctors Demand Inquest Into Dr David Kelly's Death Mr Halpin said that he lost more than 6,000 pieces of correspondence - many relating to Dr Kelly - during his investigation, explaining that the mystery began when the 'firewall' on his computer, which all similar machines are fitted with as a security measure, became inactive without warning. His emails started disappearing as though they were being sifted remotely. 'I believe this will have been done by a state-sponsored agency and not by an amateur acting singly,' he said. Dr Kelly's death may have been linked to the secret world of germ warfare research. Until his death Dr Kelly was privy to some of the state's most sensitive information and worked closely with the intelligence services of all the major industrialised countries.
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POPSSome good quotes I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. —Blaise Pascal I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. —Edith Sitwell
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POPSHeartbreaking: Father Loses Son AND Wife to Cancer Ryan battled cancer for five years. According to his obituary, he was a student at Bethlehem Elementary School and a member of the Barracuda Swim Team. He also played soccer with Barrow County Parks & Rec. Missy was a speech pathologist at Bethlehem Elementary School. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 1984 and earned her Master's the following year at Georgia State. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and was past president of both the Bethlehem Elementary School PTO and the Barracuda Swim Team. Missy is survived by her husband, Ryan's father, Les Morgan and two children, Will and Heidi, who have also lost their brother.
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POPSAncient Fortress City Unearthed in Egypt First excavated in 1886 by the English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, who recognized it as Psammetichus I's camp for Greek mercenaries, the desert site has since been flattened by wind erosion, which left the archaeological remains originally unearthed by Petrie barely visible. "The new fieldwork at the site by Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities is most valuable at this time, particularly in that it is rescuing one of the sites of the Delta endangered by development and environmental factors, " Jeffrey Spencer, Deputy Keeper at the British Museum's department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, told Discovery News ~~~~~ More at the site
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