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This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Allyse Worland, 30, a funeral director licensed in Indiana and Kentucky, who owns Have License Will Travel Continuing Education Provider and is a partner at Continuing Vision. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I was nine years old…
By Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese mother went on television to seek justice for her 19-year-old intellectually disabled son after scammers tricked the desperate jobseeker into having breast augmentation surgery, in an incident that has sparked widespread outrage. The teenager hoping for a job at…
My mom gave birth to me and my three brothers at 22. She spent her early 20s raising quadruplet sons.During an era that was supposed to be for taking risks and self-exploration, my single mom carpooled us to extracurricular activities, lectured about homework, and mapped out our futures while placing…
Warren Buffett didn’t just rely on financials and listings to pick winning stocks in the early days.He spent weeks counting railcars, went to see “Mary Poppins,” and tested the American Express brand.”Buffett’s Early Investments” outlines how the investor vetted bosses and hunted down shares to buy. There’s a common perception…
It’s a trend experts say will drag on the economy and could take years to fix, mainly because men have already been dropping out of the workforce for decades.According to Carol Graham, a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institute, the labor force participation rate of prime working-age…
My grandmother loved to send handwritten thank-you notes to everyone in her life.She died in December. At her funeral, my mom asked everyone in attendance to raise a hand if they had ever received a note from my grandmother. Every single person lifted their arm high in the air.Her letters…
By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meta said on Friday its flagship app Facebook (NASDAQ:) is attracting its highest number of young adults in three years, as it tries to shake the platform’s reputation as the bastion of an older generation. More than 40 million U.S. and Canadian adults aged…
A Duke University professor has won the ACM Prize in Computing for her work with algorithms.Amanda Randles creates virtual simulations that incorporate data from patients’ wearable devices.Randles is also trying to make medicine more personalized by learning how cancer cells move. Amanda Randles is shaping the future of medicine with…
After working in my position for nine years as a communications specialist for a healthcare association headquartered in Chicago, I was put on a performance improvement plan (PIP) during my 10th annual job review.”Has my performance changed so much from my last exemplary review?” I asked, knowing that my previous…
In a presidential race expected to be as tight as ever, polling increasingly shows younger voters shifting toward former President Donald Trump. But the group has historically been fickle and difficult to get to the polls, which the Republican Party has made increasingly difficult.A survey conducted by Marist Poll in…
