• Doctors have to get patients to list their symptoms, describe their behaviour, make a diagnosis and work out whether the root of the problem is at work, home, or in something as vague as fear of crime, all within ten minutes, says Mary Church, a Lanarkshire doctor.

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  • Lobbyists for women's retirement issues have suggested a new type of retirement account open to people without earned income, so that stay-at-home moms could hold something in their name other than an IRA. "If women were able to establish a retirement account outside of an IRA, that would compensate them for their time outside the workforce, " Hayes says.

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  • Video games are becoming something like audio CDs or video shows, something that everyone in the family can enjoy at home.

    CNN: Staying the Course

  • Here at last was a food similar to something I'd known back home in Vietnam bo kho, a beefy braise perfumed with star anise and zippy lemongrass.

    WSJ: Vietnamese Beef Stew Recipe: Bo Kho and Back Again

  • "We thought at home that we will use our savings to look for something abroad, not in Spain, because things are not very good there and we don't think they're going to be better in the next few years, " he said.

    BBC: Rise in Spaniards moving to Wales in search of work

  • But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies, and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym, or saw folks working late at a campaign office in some tiny county far away from home, you'll discover something else.

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  • In an informal poll of my own 20-something male friends, most said staying at home while the wife works would be a dream scenario (eyes glazed with visions of Xbox).

    FORBES: Twenty-Something Men Want Housewives To Cheat On

  • They noticed that many travellers were able to justify eating fast food in foreign countries because it both made them feel at home while allowing them to feel that they were trying something new.

    BBC: Would you like fries with that Maharaja Mac?

  • Guests seated next to each other should have something in common, whether it is a hobby or home state, to spark conversation at the beginning. (Ms. Fierro typically introduces seatmates to each other at casual cocktails before dinner.) While she says she enjoys intellectual conversation at the table, she's wary of heated debates.

    WSJ: For a Lively Dinner, Bring a Power Seating Plan to the Table

  • It's also about preserving a sense of home sweet home--or at least creating a healthy diversion, preferably something that doesn't involve yet more time in front of the computer screen.

    FORBES: Small Office Tech Toolbox

  • Expect Enqvist to come under challenge during the season which culminates in London and Henman, who is back in serious training would love to cap his comeback with a title win in his home city, something he never managed during his ATP Tour career, despite near misses at Wimbledon and Queens Club.

    CNN: Past Masters still court glory on Champions Tour

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