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Washington Post
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Not a waking hour goes by when Judy Adamouski does not think of the son she lost at war. Some nights, she drifts from room to room in her Springfield home -- sleepless, taking in what is left of his life. A framed photograph of a soldier in uniform. A wed..
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MSNBC
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The sixth of Florida’s first sextuplets is home from the hospital in time to spend Thanksgiving with his siblings.
Charlie Byler was still breathing through an oxygen tube when he left All Children’s Hospital on Wednesday after a news conference wh..
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USA Today
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Harold Shaw leaves his home in suburban Atlanta at 5:30 a.m. to drive the 34 miles to his job at a fiber-optics cable plant. He gets there early enough to eat breakfast and read the newspaper.
"The traffic is not as busy this time of day," Shaw, 60, sa..
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USA Today
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Nice work if you can get it. That's the consensus of fairly affluent, well-educated fathers who stay home full time with their children, according to a pioneering study released over the weekend.
About 159,000 men in the USA are full-time fathers, more..
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Washington Post
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In a city of workaholics who leave home early and return late, many neighborhoods have their version of William Outlaw -- or would like to.
The 80-year-old retiree accepts packages for 130 Capitol Hill neighbors when they are not home during delivery h..
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Washington Post
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Before the sun rose over their Florida home, Debbie Wasserman Schultz pulled the thermometer from the mouth of her 8-year-old daughter, Rebecca, and checked the mercury: 103 degrees.
Stay home? Or go to work? It's a dilemma familiar to millions of work..
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Yahoo News
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Men might throw their weight around at the office, but at home, women are the bosses.
A study, which was just released, finds that wives have more power than their husbands in making decisions and dominating discussions.
"The study at least suggests..
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Guardian Unlimited
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It is hard for an elderly woman who is infirm and immobile to retain her dignity when she relies on strangers to wash her, or help her out of bed and on to a toilet. Valerie Tugwell, 72, is seen by paid carers at home in Maldon, Essex, for an hour in the..
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CNN
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Home has been reduced to a handful of photos, e-mails with the children, a homemade silver dog tag. When they can, the dads swap memories when no one is trying to kill them.
Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Williams was supposed to be home on this day -- Father'..
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Washington Post
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Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life. The mayor of New York, officials of his parents' home town in Puerto Rico, the borough p..
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BBC News
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The UK has unveiled its first zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future.
The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home.
It also features solar panels, a biomass boiler a..
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Guardian Unlimited
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US attorney Stanley Alpert was on his way home in New York when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by a gang of thieves. How would he survive the next 25 hours?
It was close to 11 o'clock and I was heading home. I was happy. The next day was my birthday, and..
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CNN
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At the Atlanta Home Show, a three-room installation showed off trendy new building supplies, like ceramic tile that mimics weathered wood, high-tech ovens and home security systems. But the installation, called "Safe Home for Life," wasn't trying to sell..
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CNN
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CNN spoke with entrepreneur, speaker and home-based business coach Jane Pollak to find out what it takes to work from home and be successful. "I'm such an advocate for home-based businesses," said the 58-year-old businesswoman, whose Norwalk, Connecticut,..
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Alter Net
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Swapping, selling and collecting a huge array of racist furnishings and home decorative pieces is a brisk and lucrative business.
Doris Moore's first thought probably was it was a joke when she looked at the label on her newly purchased couch. Whatever..
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Washington Post
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Jeffrey Taylor and his wife bought their dream home in Purcellville for $538,000 last August. Now they have to sell it because they are getting divorced and neither one can afford the mortgage alone.
The most they could get for it was $430,000. After p..
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Denver Post
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Baby Brody, dad Michael and mom Heather Mundt, top right, were featured in TLCs' "Bringing Home Baby." The show featured Brody's first days in their Longmont home. (The Post / Glenn Asakawa)
Longmont - When I told people that my husband, Michael, and I..
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Alter Net
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In the struggle to balance work and family, work is winning. Democrats need to take back the values issue and promote economic policies that recognize that workers have families.
This article is reprinted from the American Prospect.
Family is the ce..
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Denver Post
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Mark CrosseFresno Bee Steve Kalpakoff of Fresno, Calif., reaches for a glass in his living-room bar. He has two others, including one in a pool. (The Denver Post)
Fresno, Calif. - While on honeymoon at the Grand Wailea in Maui about four years ago, Ste..
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Denver Post
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Seven out of 10 Americans have purchased a home at some point in their lives.
That number is probably higher than it should be, says Jim Spray with America's Mortgage. Consider that the Colorado Division of Housing recorded 28,435 foreclosures last yea..
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