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Finding Mr Right: Melanie, a never-married woman, sends an e-mail at noon to Mark, a divorced dad. She asks about a date the next evening. Around midnight, Mark confirms. But because he waited almost 12 hours, Melanie replies: "I've lost interest."

It's Bella's 18th birthday, and Edward, the vampire she loves, hosts a party for her. While opening a gift, she cuts her finger. Edward's brother reacts so powerfully to the smell of her blood that he tries to kill her. The symbolism is sexual.

The number of American children who have AIDS because they got HIV from their mothers has fallen by 95 percent. Pregnant women are being tested for HIV, and new treatments can reduce the risk of passing on the virus to a newborn.

In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Ursula Burns, the new CEO of Xerox, said she grew up poor on Manhattan's Lower East Side with "lots of Jewish immigrants, Hispanics and African-Americans, but the common denominator was poverty."

TVS Scooty, Hero Honda and Kinetic Motors, the major Indian scooter makers, are using Bollywood stars, expensive advertising, female-only showrooms and a range of scooters as colourful as any lipstick collection to attract upwardly-mobile women buyers.

Each year, thousands of poor Bangladeshi women are enticed to India through arranged marriages, then sold by their "husbands" as sex slaves.