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The morning of my Board exams, my mother packed me a lunch comprising of seedless grapes, two Greek yogurts, a cheese sandwich, a bag of pistachio nuts, two cappuccinos, a diet coke, chocolate-covered coffee beans and a pouch of pretzels. Mum, this isn t the Hunger Games, I joked

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Inc. 5000 applicant Snikiddy, founded by Mary Schulman and her mother, is finding success in the health food market with its snacks.

Inc. 5000 applicant Snikiddy, founded by Mary Schulman and her mother, is finding success in the health food market with its snacks

Daughter says 2 nurses told her mother to shut up, taped her mouth closed and joked they would be fired if they were caught

Daughter says 2 nurses told her mother to shut up, taped her mouth closed and joked they would be fired if they were caught

Lisa Price, the founder of Carol's Daughter, spoke about harnessing star-power of celebrities such as Jay-Z and Will Smith to build awareness of her brand. Lisa Price named her company Carol's Daughter after making a list of things she was and the things she wanted to become.

You can resolve any ethics dilemma you face by running through this series of questions"and only one of them really matters. Peter Drucker, the late management guru, said: “As to ‘ethical problems’ in business, I have made myself tremendously unpopular by saying, again and again, that there is no such thing as ‘business ethics.’ There is only ethics.” You can solve most ethical dilemmas by running down this checklist, which I've used successfully for 30 years at my company.

An 8-year-old Ohio boy weighing 200 pounds was taken by officials who said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight. That was the wrong call, says Arthur Caplan, msnbc.com contributor and professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

In high school, my mother occasionally found babysitting jobs for me. Parents, desperate for a trustworthy kid to watch their own, would entrust their offspring to Katie the honors student while they went to a meeting, or to work, or perhaps on a date. If any of those parents are reading, I have a confession for you: I didn't like watching your kids

When his mother left home to find work, 20-month-old Tha Sophat turned to local cow

In chef Gabrielle Hamilton's best-selling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter , she tells of running into a colleague on the street, where he introduced her to his mother as "one of the two best female chefs in New York City." Hamilton, owner of beloved East Village restaurant Prune and newly minted James Beard Award winner, then turned to the mother and cracked, "You know what would be great next? If we could just take the word 'female' out of the sentence." Yes, women chefs are still definitely a minority, even though the likes of Hamilton, Nancy Silverton (Los Angeles's Osteria Mozza), Stephanie Izard (Chicago's Girl & the Goat)—and of course the old-school game changers Alice Waters and Lydia Bastianich before them—run wildly popular, critically praised establishments. So how do female chefs not only deal, but thrive in a notoriously macho industry

During the summer of 1963, when i was six years old, my family traveled from our home in Philadelphia to Los Angeles to visit my maternal relatives. I already knew my grandmother well: she helped my mother care for my twin brothers, who were only 18 months my junior, and me. When she was not with us, my grandmother lived with her mother, whom I met that summer for the first time.

Patrick McDonough caught the knitting bug four years ago when his good friend, Michigan-based handbag designer Barbara May, offered to teach him a few simple steps. “I just had an emotional connection with the art,” says the Manhattan-based McDonough, who says the lesson recalled memories of his mother knitting him ...

Preface: I am a marine scientist by trade, however, I have run 4 marathons and I am in the midst of training for a half marathon/full marathon during a South Carolina summer. I might not be an expert in studying the physiology of heat related illnesses, but I have enough experience to make it count