US teen Savana Redding was subjected to a humiliating strip-search by school staff, after a classmate claimed that Savana was carrying "contraband tablets" (ibuprofen).
When it turned out that Savana didn't have any on her, the school neither apologised, nor returned her mother's calls.
So Mrs Redding called the cops.
Now, thanks to Savana's own tireless campaigning, the case went to the US Supreme Court, who declared the school's actions as a violation of Savana's civil rights.
Watch the video below for Savana's story, and follow us over the jump for more.
I had thought it was the stuff of fantasies and Friends reruns - having a baby with a male pal if you were still single at 35.
But writer Katy Regan did just that, as she writes in the Daily Mail:
"We'd had the drunken conversation: 'If I don't meet anyone by 35, will you have a baby with me?' But at 29, I thought I still had time to meet 'the one'. The trouble was, my attempts at dating other men were half-hearted. Louis may not have been Mr Right, but I couldn't quite pull myself away."
"It doesn't matter how old you are: you are never too young or too old to feel stuck or, far better, to get un-stuck. I have seen teenagers sobbing that their life is a failure and I have seen 90-year-olds begin an exciting new life in a different country.
"Take a few deep breaths and remember a mantra, murmured by a slave in the ear of triumphant Roman generals: "This also will pass." The good things pass, and the bad things, too. The important thing is to keep dancing."
But how do you get unstuck? How do you 'keep dancing'?
This weekend Doctor Who Confidential revealed (in an unnecessarily agonising and drawn-out process) that David Tennant will regenerate into Matt Smith, a relatively unknown actor who is, at 26, the youngest ever actor to take on the challenge.
According to Matthew Sweet (cultural commentator and broadcaster), Matt Smith also "looks like someone who could have been in Duran Duran":
"Matt Smith has got a fascinating face. It's long and bony, with a commanding jaw... I suspect he might be a more sensual character than David Tennant, who had no kind of dangerous sexuality about him. There's something Byronic about Matt Smith - he's got the lips for it."
This much is obvious, but lately I've had more and more people asking me in-depth questions about dog ownership. I think it's an age thing - once you're over the quarter century hump, debts are paid off (except student loans - no-one includes those) and living arrangements become less hovel-esque, thoughts can turn to bringing a new little life in to the house.
If you're not ready for babymaking, the typical choice is cat or dog. People make much of being either a cat or a dog person, and the one you choose apparently says quite a lot about your personality. More after the jump...
Is the Sarah Palin-hating thing all about misogyny, when it comes down to it? Interesting piece by Kira Cochrane today. But where does Tina Fey-loving fit into all this?
If you're having a party, there are some excellent Hallowe'en recipes over on Shine.
Should a girl put out on a first date? That's the hot topic on Daily Bedpost at the moment. So... withhold? Go for it, sistah? What do you think?
Gok Wan's new show attempts to redefine the meaning of 'beauty'. Which might sound ambitious, or possibly missing the point, or something... but is certainly an interesting idea.
And one for those of us still slightly creeped out by the idea of 'human eggs' - a woman writing in in The Times today has had her eggs frozen.
We're getting quite excited about Hallowe'en already. What? There's no shame in it. It's like Christmas, but with more sweets and less religous hypocrisy. More ghosties, too. So bring on Hallowe'en, we say, as do our friends at Crafty Crafty who've already got a mouthwatering-looking vegan cupcakes recipe up there (cupcakes are SO a Hallowe'en thing now, you know). (Am I the only person still putting an apostrophe in Hallowe'en?)
Bitch magazine was there first with the news that two Seattle 'moms' have developed plastic high heels for infants 0-6 months old and they've called the enterprise Heelarious. "The hollow heels collapse if they are stepped on, and are meant for infants too young to even crawl." So is this some kind of warped sexualisation, in the same vein as pageants for toddlers? Or is it just a kind of (weird, tacky) fun to make babies seem more entertaining - nothing to do with sex, and no more or less unsettling than, say, those hats for kids with bear ears on them or Anne Geddes? Come over the page and vote, comment, speak your mind.
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I had thought it was the stuff of fantasies and Friends reruns - having a baby with a male pal if you were still single at 35.
This much is obvious, but lately I've had more and more people asking me in-depth questions about dog ownership. I think it's an age thing - once you're over the quarter century hump, debts are paid off (except student loans - no-one includes those) and living arrangements become less hovel-esque, thoughts can turn to bringing a new little life in to the house.
