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In 2012, Holley Kitchen was diagnosed with breast cancer. After being treated with a double mastectomy, chemo, radiation and hormone therapy, she thought her cancer battle was over. But in November of 2013, she was told her breast cancer returned and had spread to her spine and bones. Kitchen now has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, an aggressive form that
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Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit has resonated with women across Silicon Valley and beyond — including Sheryl Sandberg. In a recent interview with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Bloomberg, the Facebook executive said she saw many of her own experiences reflected in Pao’s case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have systematic stereotypes of
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A 38-year-old woman’s quest to find her birth mother ended in a surprising place — the company where she works. WKBN-TV in Youngstown reports that La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark requested records that were made available recently by the Ohio Department of Health. She learned her mother’s name is Francine Simmons. She looked her up on Facebook and saw that she worked at
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has given a New York City woman permission to file for divorce from her elusive husband via a Facebook message. The woman’s lawyer says the ruling was made by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper. The Daily News (http://nydn.us/1NNmPgs ) says Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku will be served with the divorce summons via a private
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A group of activists have a message for Facebook: Fat is not a feeling. Facebook’s status update box allows users to select an emoticon associated with a certain feeling from a drop-down box. Alongside “happy,” “anxious” and “full,” users can select “fat.” Facebook screenshot, March 6 2015 In late February, Catherine Weingarten, a playwriting MFA candidate at Ohio University, wrote
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