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Is Russian Billionaire’s Challenge for Real?

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced a serious challenge Vladimir Putin in the March presidential elections, an action denounced by opposition leaders “as a Kremlin-inspired effort to drain support from a wave of antigovernment demonstrations”, writes WSJ

Women & Work Economist Debate

The Economist has been running an online debate that began Dec. 7 and ends Dec. 14th. with the winner announced on Friday the 16th. Linda Basch, president National Council for Research on Women is defending the motion: This house believes that a woman’s place is at work. Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute is leading the debate against the motion.

Ground Zero of the Drone War

Wired Magazine’s Danger Room has released a series of images by Noor Behram, a resident of North Wariristan, Pakistan who has spent years photographing the aftermath of US drone strikes. These images have never been shown in the US, writes Wired. Be advised: Many of these pictures are disturbing. Some of them show dead children.

Time to do a Gender Score Card at Wired Magazine’s editorial team: Women 2 | Men 13

AOC Friends | BCABPP

SX Liquors commissioned several artists and sponsored an art bottle exhibit and auction for Art Basel Miami 2011 to benefit The South Florida Breast Cancer Association. Michael Colano’s (see below) creation featured printed strips of 22 survivor images from BCABPP intricately wrapped and decoupaged to the supplied glass bottle.

We love seeing curves expressed in such a visually stunning, sexy message bottle by Colano. Learn how these 22 strips of breast cancer survivor images came to life in the BCABPP project; AND how you can order their new quarterly magazine Survivors.

Anne’s friend Ellen Gondola holds her copy of the premiere issue of Survivors magazine, standing between her portrait “Bamboo & Butterflies” and Melanie Joy Mezzancello Singh as “Stardust” at Michael Colano’s Uncommon Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

AOC responded to Facebook actions to censor the images produced by the Breast Cancer Awareness Body Painting Project (BCABPP), basically classifying these emotionally powerful images as pornography. The entire situation is insane and still hasn’t been fully resolved. Read original article.

‘Survivors’ is focused on the lives of breast cancer survivors, but their life lessons are motivational and apply to all of us. ‘Survivors’ is available in digital only for $4.50 and in a print+digital combo for $24.95.