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Everything I Know About my Teen, I Learned Through Facebook.

Understanding Teenagers through Facebook

By: Irene Zutell

February 3, 2012

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Facebook and your teenager

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Your teenager and Facebook.

Everything I know about my tween, I learned on Facebook.

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Ultimate Valentine's Day Seductions: The Deals

Two-for-the-Road Valentine's Day Deals

By: Susan Breslow

February 3, 2012

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champagne toast chocolate dessert

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Champagne and chocolate dessert at Bar Cocoa in Charlotte, NC.

Send your sweetheart on a flight of fancy.

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What Are Your Family's Genetic Traits?

On chin dimples and tongue rolling...

By: Karen Springen

February 3, 2012

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Ben Affleck

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Ben Affleck inherited a recessive trait -- his trademark chin dimple.

Did you inherit a recessive trait, such as Ben Affleck's chin dimple?

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Superbowl Sunday: What's a Non Fan to Do?

Fun things to do while your significant other watches the Superbowl.

By: Irene Zutell

February 1, 2012

Don't Have The Blahs On Superbowl Sunday

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Beating the blahs on Superbowl Sunday.

Superbowl Sunday: What's a Sports Widow to Do?

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What to Write on a Loved One's Gravestone

To choose the best epitaph for the marker, think about favorite sayings, poems, and passions.

By: Karen Springen

February 1, 2012

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Sylvia Plath's gravestone

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Writer Sylvia Plath’s husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, chose these words for his suicidal wife’s gravestone: "Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted."

A friend's mother adored gardening and poetry. So her family decided to engrave her bronze gravestone with the final words in William Wadsworth's "Daffodils": "And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."

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A Primer on Second Cousins Once Removed

Master family relationship terms.

By: Karen Springen

January 31, 2012

Are they first cousins? Second cousins? Once removed?

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Are they first cousins? Second cousins? Once removed?

Get help figuring out "second cousins" and "once removed."

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Dumb Things People Say to Diabetics

Silly things heard by those with diabetes.

By: Cherie Burbach

January 31, 2012

Things People Say to Diabetics

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Diabetics deal with a lot, including blood sugar tests and shots.

Things Diabetics Hear From People

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Fostering Love: Caregiving Parents Lose a Daughter Whose Life and Death Offer Cherished Lessons

After 30 years of caring for a disabled daughter, time for parents to grieve and care for themselves

By: Pamela Cytrynbaum

January 30, 2012

Fostering Love: A beloved daughter

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A Story of Love and Blessings: Bridgette Famulari with her parents

A Blessing: Grieving and celebrating a disabled daughter's life and loss

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Is Being a Cougar All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Lessons from the Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher breakup.

By: Cherie Burbach

January 30, 2012

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Demi Moore

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Is being a cougar a good thing?

When Dating a Younger Man

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Monday Moanin' -- Developing The Expert Mind

Expertise results from repetition and commitment to improvement

By: David Weiss

January 30, 2012

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Albert Einstein: Genius is a matter of habit, not genetics.

The expert mind: 10,000 hours of a task

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