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Brazilian Grooming Trend Popular With Young Girls Last Edited: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008, 11:41 PM EDT Created: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008, 11:41 PM EDT Spa Waxing On the scale of uncomfortable subjects, this story is off the charts, but it's extremely important for all parents to hear. Fox 8's Suzanne Stratford has news about a Brazilian grooming trend that young girls are having done.

THESE are the generations of cosmetic medicine: First came the “medical spa,” or medi spa, offering dermatology services in a retail setting. The medi spa begat the dental spa, bringing tooth bleaching to storefronts nationwide. The dental spa begat the podiatry spa. And now comes the first medi spa in Manhattan wholly dedicated to strengthening and grooming a woman’s genital area. Phit — short for pelvic health integrated techniques — is to open this month on East 58th Street.

Suspension Over the 'V-Word' CROSS RIVER, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchestr public high school has suspended three girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word ``vagina'' during a reading from the play ``The Vagina Monologues.'' Stay tuned to WCBS 880 on air and online for more on this story from Reporter Catherine Cioffi Their stand is being applauded by the play's author, Eve Ensler, who said today that the school should be celebrating the three juniors. Ensler asked ``don't we want our children to resist authority when it's not appropriate and wise?'' The students, Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah...

(JHR) At this time last year, the San Diego Gay Pride organization (www.sdpride.org) was under investigation for employing numerous pedophiles as volunteers and staff superviors during it annual parade and festival. The scandal involved dangerous sex offenders working for San Diego Gay Pride who had been convicted of having sex with young male minors or young children (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45151). One of those pedophiles was hired by the San Diego Gay Pride group to work in its children's garden during their 2005 festival (http://www.10news.com/news/4857263/detail.html). Most San Diegans would have thought that in 2006, the last place that public schools would allow their...

Family Policy Network (FPN) is beginning a 6-month campaign to push for a new state-based approach to protecting children from homosexual activists in public schools. Please read this alert and utilize the Action Item near the end of this message to express your opinion to state lawmakers. If you would like to get involved in this effort or want more information, call me at 615-866-5242, extension 2. -- Ron Shank, FPN of Tennessee ---------- - ACTION ALERT - Restricting Homosexual Activists in Schools: Despite various efforts to ban activist groups like the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network" (GLSEN) from...

Employers can set different dress codes and grooming standards for women than for men, as long as the rules aren't burdensome or based on sex stereotypes, a federal appeals court decided Friday in the case of a female casino bartender who was fired for refusing to wear makeup. "Grooming standards that appropriately discriminate between the genders are not facially discriminatory,'' the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a 7-4 ruling. The court said some sex-differentiated workplace rules may be discriminatory -- for example, weight rules imposed only on female flight attendants, which the court struck...

Karri Garrison is getting rid of that cliche about dirty rats - one rodent at a time. Grooming isn't just for dogs anymore, and many pet owners are bringing in their rats to groomers like Garrison, who uses waterless shampoo to make their coats shine and smell sweet. Customers at Katie's Pet Depot in La Verne, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, began requesting rat grooming soon after the store opened nearly two years ago. Employees began researching rats and even adopted some. "We need to be there for all our clients," Garrison said. "I think we might be...

The office of mayor of the nation's second-fastest growing city may be nonpartisan, but it's drawing attention and money from the Democratic Party as part of a national strategy to boost its ranks from the top of the ticket down. Tuesday's election between incumbent Mike Montandon and challenger Andres Ramirez has been, in many ways, typical of local politics. There have been phone banks and precinct-walking along with claims of skullduggery and special interest politics. Surprisingly, one of the biggest players in the race is the state Democratic Party, which has spent $34,280 in the past two months to help...

Debatable Debate Impressions, Part II Edwards – More than a Pretty Face? by Bob Redman (7 Oct. 2004) In my article about the first debate between Bush and Kerry I enumerated eleven of the many cheap shots which Kerry made. During the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday evening, Edwards repeated and/or elaborated on the cheap shots, and added some of his own. A detailed analysis of the whole tissue of obfuscation would run to several pages which most of you wouldn’t read to the end. I therefore content myself with the elucidation of only one of Edward’s trial lawyers' devices which...

Amusement Park Operator Killed in Wash. LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) - An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a fence. Doug McKay, 40, was spraying lubricant on the tracks of the Super Loop 2, a ride at the Island County Fair on Whidbey Island, when his long hair got caught on a car full of fairgoers, sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Smith said. ``It basically scalped him, and he fell and landed on the fence,'' Smith said. McKay, co-owner of...