Month: September 2011
Protect Those Assets! Interesting Celebrity Insurance Policies
You’ve probably seen the news that former Playboy model and Las Vegas burlesque show star Holly Madison just took out $1 million insurance policy on her breasts. But she’s not the first celebrity to place a monetary value on a physical asset. Here are a few other stars over the years who have taken out “interesting” insurance policies:
Where Does Mommy Go?
Sometimes it’s hard for little ones to understand why mommy has to leave for work each day.
25 Years Later: New Parents Are Still Sleep-Deprived & Stressed
NBCs “Up All Night” is the latest comedy to tackle how ones life is upended after you become a parent. And while it treads on the same ground addressed by other shows, including one of my favorites from the Stone Ages, “thirtysomething,” it does so in a thoroughly fresh way, circa 2011. The most recent episode of Christina ApplegateandWill Arnetts “Up All Night” focused on the couple trying to regain their sexual mojo, with Arnetts Chris leading the charge, trying to persuade his wife to ditch her sweats and her stained, ripped clothing the moment she gets home from work and instead don a silky cami and thong, even though she knows that shes got a sleepless night ahead of her courtesy of their infant.
Are Kids Getting Less Playtime?
Hovering parents who don’t let their kids go play outside without adult interference aren’t doing their children any favors, according to researchers. Into the 1950s, children were free to play a good part of their childhood, researcher Peter Gray, Boston College psychology professor said. If you stayed in your house around your mom, shed say go out and play. The natural place for a kid was outside.
California Lettuce Recalled Over Contamination Fears
Nearly 2,500 cartons of chopped and shredded romaine lettuce has been recalled by True Leaf Farms, of Salinas, California because of concerns that the produce could be contaminated by listeria monocytogenes (the same bacteria recently found in tainted