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The bun has been in the oven for nine months, and now its toasted golden brown. Time to get it out! This will be a kinetic operation. Youll serve as escort, confidant, valet and bodyguard. Your discomfort, embarrassment, hunger or sleepiness is irrelevant. Success is a new mom holding a tiny infant to her chest. Recon Learn all the possible routes to the hospital. Drive them on different days of the week, at different times of the day....

The rats were squeaking and struggling to escape but the harder they pulled the tighter the knot became. Seven of the rats in the tangle were already dead. Rein Kiv didnt know then, but what he had discovered was an extremely rare phenomenon called rat kings. They have been sighted since the past five centuries with approximately 60 such sightings recorded in history books. Rat king from Dellfeld, Germany, found in 1895....

(And dont ignore uptown.) Or: If you want something in between, go for St. Pattys Day. Learn somethingabout the city before you go, says GozertheGozerian. I recommend Ned SublettesThe World That Made New Orleans(also available as an audio book). I usually put in a $5 bill and use it for the week. Lafittes in Exile, Good Friends Bar and 700 Club are better alternatives. Jamescobalt knowsthe good plantation tour: Most of the historic plantations in the area are disturbingly romanticized....

How to identify an asshole Want to know how to identify the assholes in your life? Start with your own emotional responses. Somebody who makes you feel like dirt. (No, your kids arent assholes for not enthusiastically responding to your how was your day? interrogation every time they return from schooleven though their unwillingness to talk might make you feel like dirt.) Keep in mind that theres a difference between a person who occasionally exhibits asshole behavior and a certified asshole....

For the last 13 years, John Suh has led the company as Executive Chairman and CEO. We talked to him about how he runs the company and handles his own work. Im a serial internet entrepreneur with two decades of experience. Prior to LegalZoom I served as CEO of StudioDirect, the internet division of publicly traded Li and Fung. I joined LegalZoom as Executive Chairman/CEO in 2005, drawn by its mission to democratize law....

In science, replication is important. So when a DNA app calledBabyGlimpsesaid it could predict what my children would look like, I wasready. I have three children, so I could check their results in triplicate. BabyGlimpse is one of the bazillion DNA testing services that launched last year in partnership withHelix. You send a spit sample to Helix, and then Helix sequences your DNA and holds onto your data. The usual caveats about DNA tests also apply....

Once upon a time, I was a wizard named Gandalf. As Gandalf, I knew a few common spells, for protection and attack, and could speak dwarvish. The game lost my kids interest before their first characters could swing an axe. Arguing fine print is as much a signature of the game as the crazy dice. To make my childhood pastime more accessible to my kids, I had to iterate. The rest relied on our collective imagination....

Rebecca Sheir is the host and producer ofCircle Round, a kids storytelling podcast from WBUR. The show tells folktales from around the world, adapted for modern families. She shares with Offspring how parents can use storytelling in their everyday lives with their kids. I never saw what was in the bag. But that didnt stop me from creating an elaborate story about who The Zabars Lady was. Whether were three or 93, were all suckers for good stories....

Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar-coatedin fact, its sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. This week we have a very special edition of Tough Love. Were going to break down this womans not-so-great first date beat by beat. I simply want to give you the tools you better enrich your damn lives. If for whatever reason you dont like my advice, feel free tofile a formal complaint here....

The Olympic Games arehere. If youmightsay that, this cheat sheet to catching up on figure skating might help. First of all, the figure skating team events concluded Sunday night. Things started off a bit rough. And there have been a lot of spills. Aliona Savchenko, skating for Germany fell in the team competition. Thats why its so fun! The costumes, the music, the personality. Theres even a dance portion, for goodness sake....

The mother-rock is a granitic outcrop measuring roughly 1,000 meters by 600 meters. The rocks surface is incrusted with small nodules shaped like biconvex discs that are between 2 and 12 cm. Rain or dew water seeps into the cracks in the mica, and when winter comes it freezes. It takes many hundred winters for this to happen. Photo credit:Claudio Franco/Flickr For the local population, Pedras Parideiras symbolizes fertility. Scientists have a few theories but the exact origin of these stone eggs is still not known....

Cleaning out your house is a monster job, physically and mentally. Every decision to toss something becomes a reckoning of your lifestyle. Below, weve listed some things you’re free to just throw out without any thought. Weve tried not to include stuff you could donate or sell, or stuff with emotional attachment. If you cant afford to throw away your garbage, dont throw away your garbage. Save this list on your calendar for a weekend thats relatively un-freakin....

Apart from their humongous size, they look a lot like thatch but seaweed is far more durable. Some of these roofs are over 300 years old. They are a unique feature of the island of Ls. The island was practically soaking in salt. Hundreds of salt kilns were built on the island to refine the salt. With no wood left to fire the kilns, Lss salt industry collapsed. With no trees left to break the wind, Lss villages were buried in sandstorm....