Kilbourne and other leaders in media activism appear in Miss Representation along with Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Condoleeza Rice, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem and Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker to make the argument at the heart of the media activist movement: society measures a woman's value by her physical attractiveness and not in her capacity for leadership.

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The family of a woman who died of heart failure after falling into the River Cherwell as she tried to rescue her dog have paid tribute to her.

BBC: Family tribute to Oxford dog ice rescue woman

After Cupid withdrew his arrow from the heart of a police detective, the New Jersey woman that he had been dating took to Facebook to inflict her revenge.

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The South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard had become a medical superstar just a few months earlier, when he successfully transplanted the heart of a young woman who was killed in a car accident.

NEWYORKER: The Operator

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who in the 1960s became the world's first woman to be elected prime minister, died of a heart attack after voting, presumably for the party led by her daughter, the president.

ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

Unfortunately, her successor, Elizabeth 1 was also a woman (despite having the heart and stomach of an Englishman).

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More typical was an almost eighty-year-old woman at the end of her life, with irreversible congestive heart failure, who was in the I.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

The Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver, for instance, has the Orchid Floor, a group of 18 rooms stocked with Aveda products, complimentary fashion magazines and the type of gadgets that supposedly speak to a woman's heart, such as curling irons and hair straighteners.

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The patient who walked through the brand-new doors of the Frank Kiang Medical Center was a young Cambodian woman living with Down syndrome, congenital heart disease, and asthma.

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