First Ladies who are devoted entirely to keeping hearth and home are also becoming a relic of the past.

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Rest in the consolatory rhythms of hearth and home, marked out by meals and seasons, or break the pattern and take the unknowable risk?

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Ghalia Mahmoud is what Egyptians fondly call a "Set" - a term reserved for strong women respected for their ability to keep hearth and home together.

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Men go off to fight protecting hearth, and home.

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But today, after decades of effort by gun rights activists, the court declared the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right aimed, at the very least, at citizens protecting home and hearth.

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All right, with thoughts like these any man would hurry to his home and hearth.

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One implication: Advertising campaigns that conjure up images of home and hearth might also stimulate the amygdala.

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