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...number of niche companies swooping in to take care of the mundane tasks of parenting, all in the name of helping moms and dads attain a better work-life balance. Other lunchmakers include Brown Bag Naturals in Los Angeles and Kid Chow in San Francisco. Shuttle services like Mother Hen's Helpers in suburban New York and Kids in Motion in Pennsylvania will ferry your child to soccer practice or a doctor's appointment. And there are companies that will even come to your house and comb the lice out of your children's hair...
...refer to advanced research as ‘obscurantist’ is a screen for ignorance. And it is an odd sort of “hen house” that has so many roosters. Most research projects at the Institute have nothing to do with gender. After having read this opinion piece, that is perhaps a shame...
...which recently appeared on Per Se's vegetarian tasting menu. "That was what we used to have when we were kids. Mom would take a piece of bread, put a hole in it and cook it," he says. Per Se's iteration replaces white bread with brioche, and the hen egg with one from a pigeon or quail...
...movie, which is about the hero's displacement when he's thrown into a strange milieu, and his desperate need to find a sense of community in the new Oz. In Chicken Run, the outsider was a brash American rooster who crash-landed in an English hen house. In Flushed Away, the English hero is dumped into a land where the natives scheme, shout and betray, In a word: Hollywood...
MacNeil said that Lehrer was “extremely creative, with more ideas than any of us.” He likened his former co-worker to a hen, joking that “if you reach under Jim Lehrer, there’s a warm novel that’s just been laid...