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Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 4:12pm By Tim McElreavyFormer French Minister of Health and past President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil, 82, was inaugurated as only the sixth female member of the Académie française in history. Founded in 1635 by the Cardinal Richelieu, the Académie consists...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 5:39pm By Tim McElreavyClipped from: www.thesun.co.uk by clp.ly On the evening of Tuesday, March 2, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, hosted a state dinner at the Elysée Palace in honor of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...
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Monday, February 15, 2010 - 9:02am By Dr Martha LeeFrance has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, from its list of officially recognised mental illnesses. The news was reported in the French national daily Le Figaro and by the AFP...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:45pm By Chris HallLingerie manufacturers always face the challenge of marketing their products as being naughty, but not so much as to cross the line into perverse or creepy. In other words, the ideal lingerie ad campaign evokes vanilla kink. The French lingerie...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 12:27pm By Tim McElreavyWhen you log into Facebook, do the advertisements that appear on your wall seem a little too... well... targeted? It should come as no surprise that Internet advertisers use the information that you post on your profile in order to sell you things....
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 - 1:14pm By John PettittSay it ain't so! Young French women are rejecting the toplessness and nude sunbathing that defines the image of European beaches for so many Americans. A survey published by le Parisien, this week under the headline "Le monokini, c'...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 8:01pm By Tim McElreavyOn Wednesday, June 24, France will officially have a new Minister of Culture: Frédéric Mitterrand, nephew of former French president François Mitterrand. The first openly gay individual to be appointed to high office in France,...
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Friday, May 29, 2009 - 11:49am By Tim McElreavyThe French website TÊTU reports that AGRIF, the Alliance générale contre le racisme et pour le respect de l'identité française et chrétienne [The General Alliance Against Racism* & For the Respect of...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 12:43pm By Tim McElreavyThe seventeenth of May is the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), initiated by a Quebec's Emergence Foundation to commemorate the anniversary of the World Health Organization's removal of homosexuality from its list of mental disorders on...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 3:19pm By Tim McElreavyL'Express reports that a number of sex worker advocacy groups in France have merged to form the Syndicat du travail sexuel or Strass [Sex Work Union] in a renewed effort to fight for the rights, health, and safety of the nation's sex workers. The...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 5:55pm By Tim McElreavyThe National Institute for Health Education and Prevention has launched a multimedia website about sexuality for teens. The site aims to be a comprehensive resource for all the questions about sexuality teens may have: STI prevention, contraception...
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