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Best of Ms. JD: April 5, 2012Women Lawyers Who Rock: An Interview with the Honorable Michigan Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly Marisa McStravick interviews Justice Marilyn Kelly, the fifth woman to hold the distinguished position as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. A Working Mom’s Job Is Never Done: Benefit of the Doubt Writer in Residence Maggie Tucker resolves to [...] Read more»
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Career Discovery Channel: Law Firm Marketing Director, Paula Zirinsky1. How do you want your name to appear? Paula Zirinsky 2. Describe your first “real” job. What are you doing now? My first real job was as an Assistant Product Manager at the Drackett Products Company in Cincinnati Ohio. I was responsible for Crystal Drano and Drano Instant Plunger – advertising, promotion, market research, [...] Read more»
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Career Discovery Channel: Mom 100′s Katie Workman1. How do you want your name to appear? Katie Workman 2. Describe your first “real” job. What are you doing now? During high school and college I waitressed, interned at a book publishing company, worked in a frozen yogurt store, and at the insurance agency a friend’s dad owned…. First “real” job, as in [...] Read more»
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Wednesday WTF: Strip Searching Now Legal for Any Arrest.You heard us correctly: the Supreme Court, and especially Justice Kennedy (Mr. “People detained for minor offenses can turn out to be the most devious and dangerous criminals”), ruled by a 5-to-4 vote yesterday that the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches did not forbid strip searching. Strip searching: close visual inspection while undressed. Our [...] Read more»
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Mid-week Reprieve: Poached Eggs with Asparagus, Piave and Truffle Oil*Eggs are one of the healthiest ingredients around. Yes, please eat the yolks, they hold most of the nutrients! This is a deliciously quick and dirty brunch recipe that screams springtime with seasonal asparagus and the bright flavor of piave or parmesan cheese. Top it off with a touch of truffle oil and you (and [...] Read more»
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A Seat at the Table: a Twitter-ful list of women crucial to foreign policyIn 1994, I got a job working for Madeleine Albright. She was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. As a newly minted graduate of international relations I couldn’t be more thrilled – and terrified. How do you keep up with one of the smartest women in foreign policy? You talk to her. You talk [...] Read more»
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Technical Skill Tuesday: Removing Blank Rows in ExcelHere at Technical Skill Tuesday, we’re all about saving you time and effort by teaching you quick tips and commands to use in Excel. This week? Deleting blank rows from your data sets. We’ve all been there. Writing a macro every time you need to go through a set of data, locate, and delete blank [...] Read more»
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“Always sit in the front row”: An Exclusive Interview with Gina BianchiniIf you’re a woman in the technology world, chances are that you’ve stumbled across pieces of the imprint Gina Bianchini has left on the industry. Founder of Ning and its “Social Networks for Everything” — a free platform for do-it-yourself social networks — in 2004, Bianchini has graced everything from the cover of Fast Company [...] Read more»
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The Women Rocking the STEM UniverseWomen in the sciences have always had difficulty getting their fair shake at the limelight. Hedy Lamarr, our personal favorite scientist of all time, is remembered more as a movie star (“The most beautiful woman in the world– in the 1920s) than as the genius frequency-hopping spread-spectrum inventor that she was. Who in our world [...] Read more»
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Dying to Be Accepted: Decrease in Physicians Accepting InsuranceThis post is from ChickRx, the community for health experts and health novices alike to make sense of what’s become a very complex healthcare system. Although the country is taking major steps to expand healthcare insurance to cover a wider patient population, a recent study has shown that sometimes even having health insurance is not [...] Read more»

