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This young woman has something to sing about. Born with a birth defect, Amber Simone Chinn was not expected to breathe, much less speak, on her own. But now, the 19-year-old is a powerful singer, and a video of her performing has gone viral, WGRZ reported. Chinn was born with craniosynostosis — a defect in which the joints between the
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If you needed a reminder about watching what you post on social media, here’s yet another cautionary tale. According to reports this week, a woman in Texas was fired from a daycare center because of an all-too-candid Facebook post. “I start my new job today,” Kaitlyn Walls, a 27-year-old single mom, wrote on Facebook last week about a new gig
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Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit has resonated with women across Silicon Valley and beyond — including Sheryl Sandberg. In a recent interview with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Bloomberg, the Facebook executive said she saw many of her own experiences reflected in Pao’s case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. “We have systematic stereotypes of
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A 38-year-old woman’s quest to find her birth mother ended in a surprising place — the company where she works. WKBN-TV in Youngstown reports that La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark requested records that were made available recently by the Ohio Department of Health. She learned her mother’s name is Francine Simmons. She looked her up on Facebook and saw that she worked at
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