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Teenager Finds Winning Lottery Ticket After Mom Makes Him Clean Room

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:45:17 +0000

Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets.

Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was nearly $85,000 richer.

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Mom's Love May Protect You From Diabetes and Heart Problems

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:10:45 +0000

New research acquired from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) suggests that a nurturing mother can help insulate her children from a lifetime of health problems.

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Mom Fired After Taking Time Off to Give Her Son a Kidney [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:57:03 +0000

Claudia Rendon of Pennsylvania has had a tough year. First, her mother and uncle died, then her father was diagnosed with leukemia. As if that wasn’t enough, she later discovered her son, Alex, was in need of a kidney transplant.

Doctors found she was a suitable donor match, so Rendon took time off work to give Alex the kidney he needed. But when she tried to return to her job several weeks later, she found she’d been fired.

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Angry Mom Hires Plane to Fly Nasty Message Over Wall Street

Shauna Wright — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:17:55 +0000

At lunchtime on Tuesday, New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan were treated to an unusual sight — a small plane buzzing by the Standard and Poor’s building, towing a banner that read, “Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired.”

Commissioned by St. Louis banker and single mother Lucy Nobbe, who paid $895 to hire the pilot, the fly-by was a reaction to the US losing its longtime AAA credit rating last Friday.

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