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...choose to reveal your secret now? Similar to Mommy Wars, this memoir allowed me to dig deeply into a very personal issue. It allowed me to answer a series of why's and find out things for myself. Honestly, I really wanted to understand why I had been vulnerable to a man like my first husband and why I had ignored so many red flags. It's an incredible thing to take something bad that happened to you and turn it into something good. Writing Crazy Love was that...
...both Chris Brown and Rihanna and in some ways people are right to defend Chris Brown. He's not a demon; he's a troubled man who needs help, but Rihanna should not go back to him. She is the last person who can help him. The only thing you can do to help him is to leave. It is good that our country is so publicly engaged and trying in our own awkward and fumbly way to understand the craziness...
...though, the Financial Accounting Standard Board proposed a change to bookkeeping rules that would allow banks to characterize these loan sales as "distressed." That would allow banks to continue to claim they could get more for the loans they have yet to sell once this whole global financial crisis thing finally blows over...
...thing the fertility industry and some of its harshest critics appear to agree on, however: the need for an egg-donor registry. If there were a centralized repository for donor records, Ginsburg and Schneider believe, patient follow-up and long-term studies could be conducted. But the challenge is settling on the right kind of registry. After consulting with the ASRM, in January, advocates in the fertility industry founded a nonprofit voluntary registry of egg and sperm donors. It is still unclear who will pay for it, how it will work and what role the ASRM will play in maintaining...
...work. Yuri, who also declined to give his last name, had a family friend who was a colonel. "He signed a medical certificate which says that I am weakened from my childhood meningitis," he says. "It's valid until I turn 27." He didn't have to pay a thing. But he says he knows friends in Moscow that paid $10,000 for similar papers. "Draft-dodging is a national pastime," says Alexander Golts an independent military analyst. "In Russia it's a million-dollar industry." (See 10 things to do in Moscow...