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  • The true cost of motherhood for women

    By Kimberly WeisulIf you knew that having a child would decrease the amount of money you made over your lifetime by six percent, would you still do it? How about if it dented your lifetime earnings by 24 percent?

  • Why Tiger Mothers Won't Raise Tech Billionaires

    By Jessica StillmanBased on the surrounding media furor, nearly every thinking American had an opinion on Yale professor Amy Chua's pot-stirring parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Some cast an anxious glance across the Pacific towards a rising China and thought Chua's extreme style m

  • What the New Dietary Guidelines Mean for Your Family

    By Melanie WarnerThe government's latest version of the dietary guidelines, announced by USDA secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, illustrates why Americans have gotten so good at ignoring these things.

  • How to Deal with Pain at Work

    By Steve TobakTens of millions of Americans live and work in chronic pain. What's more, it's rarely discussed as a workplace or business topic … until now.

  • How to Break Through the Glass Ceiling

    By Laura Vanderkam Why do women stall near the top of corporate America? Don't blame babies, says a new study from economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, published recently in Harvard Business Review. And don't blame incompetence or inexperience either. The last glass ceiling exists because of a lack of wha

  • 12 Ways to Turn Around a Terrible Day

    by Jessica StillmanWe all have lousy days. You know the kind I mean - problem clients, cranky co-workers, bad evaluations or personal life stress collide and make for a really epic bad mood (and for some reason it always seems to be raining). So what can you do when the universe seems to conspire to