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A recent study revealed that 96% of women felt guilty at least once a day. File photo. Image by: Thinkstock. Look out ladies, there's a pejorative new "f-word" guaranteed to erode your self esteem. It's not "fat" or "fossilised" or even "fugly". Save ...

My mother's visit was going surprisingly well, given I'd been wary of the tension I usually felt after too long in her company. I was 44, but three decades could easily slip away and I'd revert to eye-rolling and taciturn answers to her probing ...

His word's good, too. "Carter's development has really taken off," Stonehill College basketball coach Chris Kraus said on Friday. "He came in a freshman wanting to conquer the world and ready to take this team back to the Final Four immediately. As a ...

Why 'captain's call' is Australia's word – well, phrase – of the year for 2015. Tony Abbott's archaic cricketing term is now being used by irony-loving Australians in all sorts of contexts, Macquarie Dictionary editor Susan Butler says. Tony Abbott ...

For hundreds of years, men and women and even nations have been shaped by influential books. If it's true that we are what we eat, then it's equally true that we are what we read. iStock. Enlarge photo». Summary. For hundreds of years, men and women ...

What One Word Best Describes Barack Obama As public perceptions of Barack Obama have changed over the course of his presidency, so too have the words used to describe him. The national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Jan.