Sightings
Where Are the Women? The Old Boys Club Meeting and Deficit Talks
The Older Women’s Economic Security Task Force in a letter to President Obama called for the concerns of women to be considered in budget talks to reduce the deficit. "It is simply not enough to send a few privileged men to the table to ‘solve’ the nation’s budget problem" more »
Examining Proportion of Women Who Survive Following Detection of Breast Cancer Through Screening
A new report's conclusion: Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening. They are instead either diagnosed early (with no effect on their mortality) or overdiagnosed. more »
Mysticism: Yearning for the Absolute
Zuirch's Museum Rietberg presents a culturally comparative exhibition on mysticism, illustrated by the example of forty male and female mystics: their lives and writings demonstrate how richly varied spiritual experience can be more »
Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal
A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do, writes ProPublica more »