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The Syracuse Orange is heating up in the early-goings of the 2009 winter season. Currently, the men's and women's basketball teams are off to strong starts in their respective seasons as the men have jetted out to a 17-2 overall record, with a 5-1 total in the taxing BIG EAST conference. The women are 8-1 at home with a 13-5 overall record, 2-3 in conference play. In its first season, the Syracuse women's ice hockey team has compiled a 3-13-3 record. In the Orange's last three conference battles, Syracuse managed to go the distance with Robert Morris and Niagara, twice, forcing three-consecutive overtime draws. Each tie earned SU a point in the CHA. The Syracuse men's and Syracuse hosted several schools to knock the dust off the cleats for some spirited competition. The Orange performed well in both track and the field events in what looks to be a very promising season for the SU tracksters. The Syracuse tennis squad is raring to get things rolling next weekend as the Orange travels t

NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, N.Y. - In the latter tilt of a two-game set at Niagara (4-16-4, 1-3-2), the Syracuse women's ice hockey team (3-13-3, 0-9-3) locked up its third point in the CHA conference standings with the second-straight 1-1 overtime affair at Dwyer Arena on Sunday afternoon. After playing in 18 games without an overtime decision, the Orange has skated to three consecutive overtime draws. Sophomore forward Rebecca Gordon (St. Catharines, Ontario) delivered SU's lone goal late in the second period. Out of the 40 goals the Orange has put in this season, Gordon's game-tying tally was only the fourth unassisted marker of the year. Sophomore Stefanie Marty (Nussbaumen, Switzerland) put SU's first unassisted goal away against Quinnipiac on October 18. Senior defenseman Rachel Tilford (Birch Hills, Saskatchewan) rifled a blast from the blue against Sacred Heart on October 31 and sophomore Julie Rising (Millbrae, Calif.) was the last one to score a goal without any help against the

The move comes after a group threatened to sue the Department of Education, claiming the current schedule discriminated against women athletes.

Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner's bank balance.

There's a generation of women in this country who think nothing of putting a slow-cooking casserole in the oven before getting on with the housework; who know how to turn one joint of meat into two family meals; and whose idea of fast food is something made quickly with leftovers from last night's dinner. And some of them don't even have a microwave.

It's horrendous. Everywhere you look, women are juggling careers and children and renovating their houses, all while looking like their hair has been glazed with honey and their bodies toned by Madonna's personal trainer. The normal level of female competition that sustained our mothers through the long, boring winters - who had the flashiest hotplate, who had the best roses - has turned into something altogether more serious. There isn't an hour of the day that this Show-off Woman isn't milking for maximum return. If she's walking, she's simultaneously toning her core muscles. If she's at home looking after her baby, she's also setting up a little online business from her sofa.

IT WAS always likely to happen when the world of Miss Jean Brodie crashed head-on with a 21st century woman.

Natalie Dylan is a 22-year-old from San Diego who says she's a virgin. She has a B.S. in women's studies and hopes to get her masters in marriage and...

Several studies had previously suggested that regular physical exercise reduces the breast cancer risk of women. However, it had been unknowned just how much exercise women should take in which period in life in order to benefit from this protective effect. Moreover, little was known about which particular type of breast cancer is influenced by physical activity.