Latest articles by Abigail Pesta
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Need to Meet: Esperanza Spalding
When she beat out Justin Bieber at this year's Grammys, his fans angrily tweeted up a storm. Esperanza just kept jamming.
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Is Shoplifting an Addiction?
Lindsay Lohan, Caroline Giuliani, Winona Ryder … it seems stealing has become an American pastime. Find out why.
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Real-Life Revenge of the Nerds
A new book suggests that teenage outcasts are the most likely to succeed as adults.
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Conan's First Lady of Comedy
In the boys' club of late-night shows — where male writers outnumber women by as many as 19 to 1 — Laurie Kilmartin scores as Conan's sole female writer.
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The Day My Husband Disappeared
On a trip to Greece for Michelle Kramer's birthday, her husband, a succesful doctor who lavished her with gifts, vanished. Her search for him turned up shredded documents, survivalist gear, and $6 million in debt.
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Send a Letter of Support to CBS Correspondent Lara Logan
Women across the country are rallying around Lara Logan, the CBS News correspondent who was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted while on assignment in Cairo last week.
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Braving New Worlds: Why Career Women Are Moving Abroad
We all know what it's like to slog through a recession. Meet five women who took action, pulling up stakes and moving to countries with rapidly developing economies.
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Justice in an American Honor Killing
Faleh Hassan Almaleki was found guilty of second-degree murder for the honor killing of his daughter, 20 year-old Noor.
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A Real-Life Spy Couple
Robert Baer and Dayna Williamson hid their real identities and spent their lives trying to be invisible. Then they got married.
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Exclusive: Diary of a Call Girl Turned Teacher, Part II
In college, she stripped. In graduate school, she sold sex on Craigslist. Then Melissa Petro became a popular grade-school teacher, known for inspiring her students. Her secret past could have stayed that way — until she blogged about it. Read Part I of this interview here.
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Exclusive: Diary of a Call Girl Turned Teacher, Part I
In college, she stripped. In graduate school, she sold sex on Craigslist. Then Melissa Petro became a popular grade-school teacher, known for inspiring her students. Her secret past could have stayed that way — until she blogged about it.
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The Prison Whisperer
For wives of white-collar convicts, help is now at hand.
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Would You Reveal Your Baby's Sex in a Cake?
A trendy new treat at baby showers is sparking an interesting debate.
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Do Girls Need Guns?
A controversial new book says every woman in America should own a gun.
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An American Honor Killing
In a quiet suburban parking lot outside of Phoenix, a father floors the gas on his Jeep Grand Cherokee and heads straight for his 20-year-old daughter. His goal: to protect his family's "honor." Yes, honor crimes have washed up on our shores.
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Must-See Film: Redlight
If you happen to live in New York City, skip The Bachelorette tonight and go see something real: a documentary about young girls who are being sold into sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. We're talking girls as young as five years old.
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Get to Know: YouTube Shopping Stars
Love or hate them, an army of shopaholic video bloggers is becoming a major force in the fashion world.
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From POW to Pastry Chef
Once a prisoner in Iraq, Shoshana Johnson soldiers on.
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Jenny Sanford: The Smart Wife
Amid the recent rash of cheating-man scandals (Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, David Letterman), the wife of philandering Republican Governor Mark Sanford has emerged as a hero to wronged women.
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Think Your Job's Hard? Read This.
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow describes the heroic bomb squad at the heart of her film The Hurt Locker.
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Sanitary Pads...Made Out of Bananas?
It's not every Harvard Business School grad who puts her degree to use making sanitary pads out of banana trees.
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Pamela Anderson Talks Boobs 'n' Business
Pamela Anderson talks about her new clothing line, her boobs, and how she managed to make her career thrive for over 20 years.
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Need Some Rehab?
Rehab, like everything else, it's getting outsourced to India ... on the cheap.
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I Had an Unthinkable Disease...and Made Myself Better
When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the doctors told me I could end up paralyzed. Here's how I coped.Read about more reversals of fortune:I Tackled a Powerful Family LegacyI Was a Homeless, Drug-Addicted Army Veteran
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A Woman's Battle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
One woman's battle with obsessive behavior.
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To Breed or Not to Breed?
Many women never feel a desire to have kids, ever.
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Girl Crush: Amy Robach
Not only does she rule the sofa as host of the Saturday Today show, she's also a national correspondent for the NBC Nightly News, fills in on occasion for anchor Brian Williams, and is routinely described as the next Katie Couric.
