My biggest surprise was that the Oprah interview did not descend into the all too common excuses and crocodile tears we have seen from those in a similar predicament.

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Certainly many small and large businesses have been going through their own trauma during the past few years, but singling out one certain group of people NOT to retain or hire based on age has become all too common.

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There's a moral here, simple but worth repeating as investors go hunting for bargains among beaten-down stocks: The price tag on a company is not just the value of the common shares but the outstanding debt, too.

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There's a moral here, simple but worth repeating as investors go hunting for bargains among beaten-down Nasdaq stocks: The price tag on a company is not just the value of the common shares but the outstanding debt, too.

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Not too far into the future, it may become commonplace for people to run common functions in their homes using their smart phones.

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Throughout pregnancy, women with diabetes need to take extra doses of folic acid, and have regular scans to make sure their babies are not growing too quickly, or developing heart and spine defects - some of the common risks in such cases.

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There are simply too many policy inconsistencies and counter-pressures, not the least of which is the common sense of the American people and their representatives in Congress.

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Just as an aside, the most common reasons for us not knowing the answers to important questions are that the answers are too complicated to yield easy information or that no one has been willing to put in the time and money to do the studies necessary to provide certainty.

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Cohabitation is common in other parts of Europe too, but in Britain couples who live together unmarried seem not to last: half split up after three or four years and a little less than half go on to marry (before perhaps divorcing later).

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They may not have anything outside of the last two years in common -- and they don't talk about that too much.

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