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EDUCATIONAL. The word you use when your mother-in-law asks why the kids are watching so many videos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Working Mother's Day, from A to Z | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...need. From Wholly Joy: Being Happy in an Unhappy World to The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness, from the Buddhist Eight Steps to Happiness to I'd Rather Laugh: How to Be Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (by Linda Richman, Mike Myers' mother-in-law), hundreds of books purport to help you feel a bit better. They speak to a primal yearning in the species. "Human beings want to have meaning," says Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania psychologist and director of the Positive Psychology Network. "They want not to wake up in the morning with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Healthy: Is There a Formula For Joy? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard employees had close ties with the Brockton man who killed his wife, mother-in-law and daughter before taking his own life Monday night...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Janitor Mourns Tragic Murders in Family | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

...bought a Vanilla Coke recently, she took one sip, declared it awful, then drank it all because she could not bear to pour it out. She has two business suits--one that she bought for her FBI interview in 1980 and the one, given to her by her mother-in-law more than 15 years ago, that she wore to testify in June. "Stuff doesn't wear out," she explains. Her daughter Bette feigns outrage: "She used red yarn to patch my jeans! Red on the butt, red on the pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleen Rowley: The Special Agent | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...DIED. BILQUEES ZARDARI, 70, mother-in-law of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto; after quickly deteriorating from a chest infection; in Karachi. Bhutto lives in self-exile in London. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, jailed since 1996 on corruption charges, was temporarily released last week to visit his ailing mother, and is being allowed to attend her funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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