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Carnival’s 7-Year-Old Queen: You Can’t Just Blame It on Rio

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Several years ago, before I got pregnant with our first child, my husband and I puzzled at length (probably ad nauseam, looking back on it now) about what parents can do to give daughters the same sense of entitlement that...

Fast-Food Enabler: Subsidized Corn

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Woman Up is waging a fast-food fight (Delia, Jan, Domenica), and I'm all for it, especially after my husband and I stumbled across the documentary, "Food, Inc.," about the hidden dangers found on our collective dinner...

‘Added Sugar’: How Sweet it Isn’t

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I went grocery shopping this morning, only to come home and clean out the fridge of almost as many vegetables as I had just bought. Because I deal with this high-waste cycle each week, it seems that I might welcome a product that...

Midlife and Beyond: Bringing Lincoln’s Lessons Home

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I just read my children a bedtime story that was probably too young for them, but I liked Ruth Krauss' "A Hole Is to Dig" just as much tonight as I did when I was 3. It's full of big-hearted definitions, including, "A brother is to...

America’s Poor? Let Them Eat Burgers

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Domenica, I'm with you. When I read the front-page story on E. coli in the Sunday New York Times, I couldn't help but think once again that I'm glad I'm at the top of the...

Male Sexcapades (Yawn) Displace Bigger Story

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One of my Woman Up compatriots was speculating recently on whether there's much difference between Roman Polanski's bad behavior and David Letterman's serial office affairs.


Do the Clowns and Cut-Ups Win?

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Walking through the White House's East Gate uninvited may not be as bad as climbing over the fence, but even if what Michaele and Tareq Salahi did by inviting themselves into last week's state dinner turns out to be legal, here's my question: When...

Dinner Partner vs. Life Partner

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