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For all of life is like that race, With ups and downs and all. And all you have to do to win, Is rise each time you fall Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “There is always a reason for good or bad fortune … good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.” For working folks, if having enough money to support their families is regarded as good fortune, then not having enough is bad fortune. In 1993, fortune, that fickle femme fatale, ignored my two decades of working to build a career and support a family, and left...

There's still no word on the identity of a 26-year-old man who may have met his doom inside of a dough mixing machine. Sunday afternoon, Houston police responded to a call of a dead body found inside of an industrial mixer at the Houston branch of the Wonton Food company. They're the leading makers of those fortune cookies you get at Asian food places. Wonton, which has a huge factory in New York and others around the country, is actually known as one of the leading providers of fortune cookies around the world. It also makes other Asian food under...