At a tender age of 10, little Sehinde Bakare has become the breadwinner of a family of two; his grandmother and himself. The boy is battling with the harsh realities of life following the death of his parents and the subsequent loss of sight by his 72-year-old grandmother. He does menial jobs to put food

Research suggests that people choose—or are unconsciously drawn to—careers that resemble their own names. The effect is stronger for women’s first names and men’s last names; psychologists hypothesize that women are less attached to their last names because they anticipate taking their husbands’. In a 2002 paper in the journal Attitudes and Social Cognition, psychologists

  (By Joanne Lipman) I had a teacher once who called his students “idiots” when they screwed up. He was our orchestra conductor, a fierce Ukrainian immigrant named Jerry Kupchynsky, and when someone played out of tune, he would stop the entire group to yell, “Who eez deaf in first violins!?” He made us rehearse