Word: mother
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...thousand people. When the Lupos' 7-year-old daughter was asked by a neighborhood friend why her family didn't have enough money to pay for its house, she couldn't say. The answer: her father's income from selling cars kept dropping just as her mother's medical-transcription company started losing business to electronic record-keeping. Among the expenses cut from the family budget was health insurance...
...Maybe it's the mother in me, or the experience I've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention: don't give it to them.' HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. Secretary of State, likening North Korea's refusal to halt its nuclear activities to the behavior of a disobedient child...
...started cooking last year after I moved off-campus to live with my boyfriend, who has an actual kitchen and uses it to make exactly three varieties of salad. When I decided that it was time for us to incorporate heat into our kitchen regimen, my mother saw it as a long-awaited opportunity to instruct me in Chinese cooking...
...months, she communicated recipes through phone calls, despite my insistence that none of them could be carried out without a real wok. My little sister visited me last spring and hauled along a suitcase of edibles, which included packets of dried herbs and berries prepared by my mother (and still sitting in my cabinet to this day). Shamefully, despite mastering made-from-scratch pasta sauce and somewhat authentic baklava, I had yet to prepare a proper Chinese meal when I left Boston this summer to spend a month at my boyfriend's home in Germany...
...than helpful when asked for specifics, such as the physical address of said market. So instead, I scurried around the canned food section of an extremely sanitized store (already a bad sign for authenticity) and came away with canned bamboo shoots and baby corn, which would have appalled my mother, who never serves anything that has previously been sealed and shelved...