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• Sweet times for a Web business for women

  

  A husband and wife team with the serendipitous surname of "Sugar" may have found the recipe for successfully combining content, e-commerce and social networking on a site that attracts a most attractive demographic: women ages 18 to 44.

• Top Mexico court shows support for abortion law

  

  Mexico's Supreme Court was poised Wednesday to uphold legal abortion in the capital despite deep opposition elsewhere in the heavily Catholic country.

• 13 anti-abortion protesters arrested

  

  Thirteen anti-abortion activists, including Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, were arrested Tuesday during an orchestrated demonstration in which they blocked a security gate near the site of the Democratic National Convention.

• Swaying women voters becomes Democrats' main mission

  All eyes are on Hillary Clinton.

• Significant U.S. preference for male leaders persists

  Men and women agree that women are more honest, intelligent, compassionate, outgoing and creative, according to a survey out Monday. But men still get a significant edge as leaders - and from both sexes.

• Saudi ban on woman drivers may be eroding

  

  When Ruwaida al-Habis' father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers to get them to a clinic.

• HHS: Doctors can refuse to provide abortions

  The Bush administration on Thursday proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections.

• Compelled to be thin: Women in their 30s confront eating disorders

  

  Kelly had an epiphany in her car two years ago on a lunch break.

• Cervical cancer shots less cost-effective with age

  An expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer makes sense for young teens when it comes to cost-effectiveness, but not for women in their 20s, contends a new report.

• Obama faces new criticism on abortion

  

  Painted during the Democratic primary as weak on abortion rights, Barack Obama is now being portrayed by opponents of abortion as an extremist who literally supports killing babies.

  

• More women are having fewer children, if at all

  More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.

• NYC lawsuit: Women's studies program discriminates

  A man who is already crusading against ladies' nights in bars has sued Columbia University, saying its women's studies program is unconstitutional.

• On abortion, candidates subtly seek centrist votes

  

  When Republican John McCain suggested his running mate could support abortion rights and Democrat Barack Obama gave an anti-abortion senator a prime convention role, both were sending a subtle message to centrist voters.

  

• KARLA MASS: The week's most talked about book

  

  "Although black people represent only about one in eight Americans, one in every two people living with HIV in the United States is black," according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Marvelyn Brown is one of them.