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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
A three-year battle ended last August when the Food and Drug Administration decided that women and men 18 and older could buy the Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc product without a doctor's order if they showed proof of age at a pharmacy.
"More women know about it, and it's just becoming much more part of their mainstream reproductive health care," Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said.
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Opponents of wider access say that is exactly what they had feared. Conservative and religious groups argued that easy availability would promote promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases among teens and others. you can read more on it here. definitely a step in the right direction; why should anyone tell a woman what to do with her reproductive capability? and even 18 might be too late.. it's because of religious nuts like these who think the unavailability of contraception will make their children chaste that clothes hanger abortions happen. |
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walking doggies was nice.. :)) i got kissed by a huskie!! and dougy has put on weight... he doesn't seem as afraid of people as he used to be, although when we walked him he still skulks very close to the ground.. :( why do people beat dogs? mostly they aren't malicious, and we don't live in kampung days anymore where strays will steal your chickens. dougy is a poor traumatised soul.... i think he's possibly even autistic--or whatever that translates to in a dog.
just about all the dogs (the usual ones, in my kennel.. not the MILLIONS of dogs in the pound) were walked yesterday, which was nice :) pity we couldn't walk them longer.. but then there are just too many. and that's the problem, isn't it? people who abandon dogs ought to be whipped. cats don't have it so bad--they're generally quite resourceful, and people seem more terrified of stray dogs that they think will eat their kids. and good too, i'd say. screeching-toy-throwing kids on trains ought to be muzzled like rottweilers |
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why is there so much work? why, why? i'm having pretty much fun doing what i realise i now like (lit), but having to do other stuff kinda skews my attention (ie EL, evo). anyway week's now technically over... just 2 minor errands then i'm off to see doggies!!!! bought a neon yellow ball for the mals.... :)))) things have never been so swell. it's gonna be a Perfect Day. |
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dialogue at Olio this morning me: hi, i would like a tall black.
barista: ok. short?
me: .... yes.. short. yes, and paradox is not contradiction and all that.. but the next time i need a coffee i think i'll just ask for a kopi-o kosong.
ps: i can't seem to talk to people on invis on adium, so you know why i don't reply... also please send stuff to my gmail rather than hotmail ^_^ i check the latter only on a monthly basis.. just for mail that fall through the cracks |
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i've always suspected it--now i think it might be true. amazing the insights you get when you're high on caffeine and can't sleep. i'm not really bothered about it; still, it is something new for me...... it usually takes a major upheaval to get me this reflexive; it's a positively wordsworthian moment. i think i need more nature... more flora.. and fauna!!! DOGGGGGSSSS yess. i need walkies soon. going crazy cooped in this little cell with a ceiling fan that exerts pseudo rocket g-forces on me. if there is a good reason to get up each morning it is that it helps me get through the day.. i need to do meaningful things, rather than sleep in or mug school readings. i need dog therapy :))) |
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heya.. if anyone knows where i can get a TEVO screen protector for the samsung k3, will you kindly point me in the right direction? :)) 
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"somebody told me" - the killers | |
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i have trouble writing essays.. i always have in mind this idea of the perfect argument--not that there ever is only one answer, but i think something sublimely written would persuade you that there is, and that you are looking at it. i don't like the detritus that accompanies the act of creation because it feels like carving a sculpture and realising that you've shaved off too much wood. i can't deal with flaws. i just got back from the tailor's.. my suit is almost ready! :D am tremendously excited... of course i'm not the best man at my brother's wedding (not about to give up eating the food just to do rounds with my bro at the dinner) but i look good... *GWINZ!!!!!!* truly the clothes doth the man make. |
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 girl husky!! :D |
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am sorely disappointed.. was going to buy a pair of adidas on offer at the forum today but the shoe was too narrow for my foot (left). it's a bit aggravating sometimes, having to drag around a deformed foot in slippers cuz normal shoes don't fit. it's almost enough to give one a complex. for the record i'm not sloppy k... not footwear-wise, anyway. yeah i do quite like the FAS bum look but that's not why i wear slippers.
have managed to survive another week yet again and everything seems fine :)) i'm really enjoying my lit mods (surprisingly) and worrying over my el one (which was totally unexpected..) trying to figure out how to write a science paper and whether science papers should read like it was written by a human. overall good kinds of stress (i think) and looking forward to seeing doggies tmrrw.. wooOOAH!! :)))
just watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. being the proletariat that i am, i'd have the say that the ending didn't make much sense.. or any that really appealed to me (yes i've been reading up on interpretations.. someone claims that the aging sequence was an afterthought, and that Kubrick mentioned that before Dave was simply meant to wander around till he found the monolith. does that make any sense now, then?)
for the first 20 minutes, i endured men in monkey suits jumping around and waving bones.. then at least 30 minutes worth of trippy psychadelic lights during the movie proper. why? why??? why do this to me??????? i wasted 2+hrs of my life watching something that i feel pressured to understand.. or at least pretend to. i do get the tropes, yes. even the freaky alien conspiracies. but it don't mean much to me.
(i must admit though--that Hal is possibly the creepiest computer program i've ever encountered in fiction) |
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much more entertaining than yesterday ya?
"do you feel safe if a woman were flying your plane?"
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doing 6.5 mods this sem, with 3 being lit... *horror* decided to push the boundaries a bit.. find out exactly how many things i can handle before it all falls apart. but of course it won't.... :) shall be terribly, terribly busy.......
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not goTo right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
:D from the Don Quixote movie, Man of la Mancha |
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visited doggies today to say goodbye :( though not really.. i'm sure i can find time to see them weekly. sky was v sweet, he was going to be walked by new people but he came tearing back into the kennel to pounce on me!! :D hee hee. that's why i love mals really.. they do adore you, and they show it. though after that they'll go on doing their own thing and ignore you... i'm more worried about sparrow actually. i could bring him here.. though i'd rather not :( moved in to PGP at last. living next to the jungle has advantages.. it's naturally cooler; though i seem to get lots of bugs. at this point it looks almost inhabitable... :) almost. pictures and stuff up soon (on my wall)!
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today i did some massive spring cleaning... wiped down all touchable surfaces with Walsh except for the wall (sans the more moldy bits).. scrubbed the floor, cif-ed the table.. and generally made the room a bit more habitable :) here's a shot of the supplies:  i also dueled with a MASSIVE cockroach today! it was a 3 inch whopper... which HOVERED. anyway i was sparring with it with a broom and dustpan, and eventually exiled it from my room (it crawled through the window.. creepy). and finally... after a bit of museum crawling, we caught the fireworks from the 20th floor of the Marina Oriental :)) 
am v sleepy.. i realised that i simply cannot do without coffee. i had one coffee all day and i was on autopilot.. barely making it through the day. complex conversation would have been tough. i think i should go back to 5 cups a day, with some sugar in between. sugar has a short-term effect on me.. it makes me more awake, but less aware. sleepy..... stoned. watching lava lamp make exclamation marks... funky. |
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LONDON (AFP) - Women see masculine-looking men as more unsuitable long-term partners but men with more feminine features are seen as more committed and less likely to stray, researchers said Wednesday. (more)really.. also a clip from He-man, Masters of the Universe!! :D wahahaha |
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been running on 5 hrs of sleep for all the past two days... not intentional, and not v fun.... though i think it was ultimately the traveling that did me in. i was quite stoned over the writing assistant course and must not have looked v good... fortunately the earlier interview was ok (still fairly lucid after relieving sec school).
overall i think i look less good than i feel, which is considerable :( am going back to sleep again.... catching up on the sleep loss last night when i woke up at 3 panicked about missing my PGP check-in date. ..
anyway everything's roses on that front--or at least leaves, because my new room is B1 and faces the 'forest'! what a view.. much better wind than my previous place, even if the room is infested with dried lizard dung and mold. a major clean up is required.
on fish, i've also discovered that sparrow apparently isn't sick at all... the gold on his tail has since become the same green iridescence as his body (possibly a previous diet deficiency..). since i got him i have been medicating him for one thing or another :( i'm such a bad fish keeper. fortunately sparrow is about as hardy as they come :))
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Neither the hospitals nor the SRC make appeals on behalf of individuals, she said, adding that there is usually no shortage of B-type blood under normal circumstances. In any case, hospitals have a pool of O-type blood for emergency use, "because 'O' is the universal blood type and it can be given to all," explained Ms Teo.
She reiterated the SRC's position against replacement donation, which occurs when a patient gets a blood transfusion and family members are asked to replace the blood supply.
She also stressed that blood is given based on patients' needs and is not dependent on replacement donations. In fact, even family members cannot donate blood directly to an individual. (more)good to know... |
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things are depressing... i'm riding a crest right now and waiting for the next lull. hopefully.. by wed. anyway here's a nice picture to look at, because being bored is better than being busy/depressed/anxious. but everything shall pass... many thanks to Faith again, for immortalising a random msn icon into art i can stick on my wall :)
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