Attention, please! Did you know that you should not talk about "fat" this week.That includes phrases like: • Does this make my butt look big? • I look so bloated. •

I'm still trying to lose weight after the baby. • You look big-boned in that swimsuit.This idea that "friends don't let friends fat talk" is part of the Fat Talk Free Week international campaign which encourages women to end fat talk."I believe all women deserve to feel good about themselves. We need to prevent negative body images and get away from this obsession over the thin ideal. We should focus on our health instead of our size and weight," says Stacy Nadeau, a former model for Dove soap's Campaign for Real Beauty.Nadeau is the official spokeswoman for Fat Talk Free Week. The fraternity Tri Delta and The Center for Living, Learning and Leading have teamed up with partners and sponsors to raise public awareness about the campaign. [Read the full article]

For an organization that describes itself on its website as being "truly a melting pot," with membership that comes "from all walks of life," the Boy Scouts of America sure is picky.This week alone, the nonprofit organization has been criticized for removing a father from leadership in Texas because he is gay and rejecting a couple's application for leadership in North Carolina because they are Mormons.I couldn't help but chuckle after reading the two headlines. [Read the full article]

This week Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, called Anita Hill and left a message on her answering machine inviting her to apologize for testifying during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings.The call brought back, with surprising immediacy, those 1991 hearings. For those too young to remember, the hearings may be little more than a paragraph in a history text. But it's hard to overstate their importance. [Read the full article]

Remember when your high school summer reading list included "Atticus," "Fiesta," and "The Last Man in Europe?" You will once you see what these books were renamed before they hit bookshelves.1. F. Scott Fitzgerald went through quite a few titles for his most well-known book before deciding on "The Great Gatsby." If he hadn't arrived at that title, high school kids would be pondering the themes of Trimalchio in West Egg; Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires; On the Road to West Egg; Under the Red, White, and Blue; Gold-Hatted Gatsby; and The High-Bouncing Lover.2. George Orwell's publisher didn't feel the title to Orwell's novel The Last Man in Europe was terribly commercial and recommended using the other title he had been kicking around -- "1984."3. Before it was "Atlas Shrugged," it was The Strike, which is how Ayn Rand referred to her magnum opus for quite some time. [Read the full article]