You Can Blame Pattie Mallette for Bieber Fever

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“Bieber Fever” is a common affliction for tweens, teens, and even some adult women, deny it though they might.  The baby face … the flippy hair … the voice … Justin Bieber is just all that and a bag of chips for a (shockingly) large number of people.

For those of us immune to his evident appeal as a sex idol (and I count myself in this number … I mean, come on, he’s sixteen), though, the real story is the fact that he was raised by a single mother, achieving stratospheric success from rather …

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Why “Mother” Nature?

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Mother Nature took a lot of flak last week, including some very choice words from me … my mother had months ago planned a trip to Disney World with my daughters over the holiday vacation, and their flight was canceled (on two separate days) because of the weather-related travel brouhaha right after Christmas. Yeah, kind of hard to explain to a six-year-old that her New Year’s with Mickey was secondary to a nation of people getting home from holiday visits.

And air travel was definitely a freaking mess (even without the antics of Steven Slater), with flights delayed …

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Top Business Professor Claims ‘Women Have Better Brains for Marketing’

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Professor Mark Ritson of Melbourne Business School – a leading business academic and a PhD alumni of Lancaster University, UK, my own alma mater – has declared that women should be the ‘natural choice’ for top marketing positions. The way Professor Ritson sees it, women quite simply have better brains for marketing. Interesting stuff.

Professor Ritson has laid out a genetics-based argument to back up this theory, focusing on the fact that women are more naturally …

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