Etc.

Prominent feminist writer Mary Thom, 68, died Friday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

She was one of the founders of Ms. magazine.
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Speaking of obituaries, is there anything that can be learned from the rise and crashing fall of one of the nation's leading sociopaths?

I am not kidding when I say Michelle Rhee is a sociopath. She fits the description to a "t."
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Tell me about it:

Forty-six percent of all US adults did not have insurance for the full year, or had coverage that provided insufficient protection from health costs. Nearly a third—55 million—were uninsured at some time in 2012. Some 30 million people—an additional 16 percent—were insured, but had such high out-of-pocket costs that they could be considered underinsured, according to the report.

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Whatever you do, don't do it.

Don't go into teaching anyway; you will be used and abused and tossed out like garbage if you are unlucky enough to have a bad administrator.

I had two terrible ones in a row, and they made my life hell.