Notes home to parents over poor lunchbox fodder

I'm all for promoting healthy eating but the notion of teachers trawling through kids lunchboxes every day and sending notes home chastising parents about their contents begins to wrankle. Sure if a kid brings a...

Parenting Subcontractors

" Catherine Castrence is not a morning person. So between getting her daughters dressed and fed breakfast, letting the dog out and giving an insulin shot to the family's diabetic cat, the Reston, Va., working...

Seagulls force kids' playtime to be cancelled

"A seagull, waiting to strikeHungry seagulls have forced playtime to be cancelled in Croatian schools after they started grabbing pupils' packed lunches. The protected species have resorted to scavenging owing to an explosion in their numbers. 'It is too dangerous for...

Finding The Fairest Prices For Student Loans

"Can you imagine someone ripping you off for a Payday candy bar? Something close to that apparently has been happening at the University of Texas, where the financial aid office maintained a list of the freebies showered on the staff by student loan companies. Payday candy...

Hungry? 10 Jobs That Let You Sample Food

"Most of us sample plenty of food during our work weeks -- leftover pasta from working lunches, mousse cakes from baby showers, and fistfuls of miniature candy bars from a co-worker's candy jar. While some of us are content with eating bags and bags of chips, these 10 jobs...

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