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Pet Buys
Five great gifts to amuse, soothe, and protect your pets: BarkBox. Monthly subscription delivers fun goodies for Fido to your door. (barkbox.com, prices as low as $19/month) Pet Acoustics. App plays...
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5-Minute Fitness: Abdominal Crunches from Dr. Life
In our July/August issue, Dr. Jeffry S. Life shared his abdominal crunch exercise from his newest book, Mastering the Life Plan: The Essential Steps to Achieving Great Health and a Leaner, Stronger,...
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Five Ways to Save Water
Conservation does not mean deprivation. You don’t need to take military-style showers or let your yard go fallow in order to save water. “We’re not saying you can’t have a garden,” says Peter Gleick,...
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5-Minute Fitness: Calf Raises for Leg Strength
Calf muscles are largely underused and often out of play for several hours a day while we sit at desks and workstations, and in cars, trains, and airplanes, writes celebrity health and fitness coach...
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Never Use a Preposition to End a Sentence With
While reading “The Grammar Guru” (July/August 2013), I recalled Winston Churchill’s response to a punctilious editor who had chided him for ending a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s memorable...
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5-Minute Fitness: Calf Raises from Lani Muelrath
In the September/October issue, we showed readers Lani Muelrath’s calf raises from her new book Fit Quickies: 5-Minute, Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts to help strengthen legs and address the strain...
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Autumn Gardening Bargains
Get the most green for your greenbacks with these money-saving tips. 1. Perennials on sale: Moderate temperatures and increasing rainfalls in most climate zones make fall an ideal time to plant trees,...
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Apps for Eating Well
Get the best apps (free, too!) to help you make healthy choices at every meal from the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, among others. 1. Fooducate. Scan product barcodes for nutrition...
View Article5-Minute Fitness Video: Fat-Burning Sprints
Go all out with sprint workouts that strengthen legs, improve cardio health, and burn fat for hours. “Sprinting offers incredible fat burning after the workout is over. This is due to excess...
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3 Questions for Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, a documentary about the legendary character actor, has recently been released by Swiss filmmaker Sophie Huber. It’s an intimate portrayal of the man who was born in...
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Hot Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
Fiction The Lowland (Knopf) The Goldfinch (Little, Brown and Company) The First Phone Call From Heaven (Harper) Jhumpa Lahiri Donna Tartt Mitch Albom For women, travelers, and lovers of sophisticated...
View ArticlePre-existing Conditions
On October 23, 2005, Jennifer Latham and her husband Alex were severely injured when a meth dealer, fleeing police in Longmont, Colorado, ran a stop sign and broadsided their car. Jennifer suffered...
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3 Questions for Robert Redford
I just know that for me there have been a lot of times in my life where it seemed a good idea to stop or to quit…but I said, “No. I’m going to keep moving. I’m going to try to make this thing happen.”...
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Minibooks
S troll into a bookstore looking for a hardcover—something meaty to keep you occupied for a few weeks—and chances are that almost immediately you’ll be assaulted by carefully positioned displays of...
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Photography Apps
You already know Instagram, which allows you to transform photos with editing tools and filters and to easily share them. Here are four more cool apps for photo hounds. Pic Stitch. Create photo...
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Videos from the International Snow Sculpture Championships
Celebrate Ullr, the Norse god of snow, at the Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colorado. Each year more than 32,000 people gather to watch as artists from across...
View Article5-Minute Fitness Video: Wall Sits
Strengthening your buns, hips, and thighs will allow you to work out better and longer. Wall sits are a simple yet effective exercise to help build your lower body. Freestyle ski champ Simon Dumont...
View Article5-Minute Fitness Video: The Cobra Pose
Watch the video and follow along as fitness instructor Molly Tittle from Invoke Studio in Indianapolis, Indiana, shows you how to get the most out of the Cobra Pose (instructions follow). In this...
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Eat for Health
Your cholesterol is creeping up and it’s just a matter of time before the doc prescribes statin therapy. Can foods fortified with plant sterols help? The short answer is yes. Plant sterols—which are...
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7 Steps to Clutter Control
Better planning, smarter strategies reduce stress and save time. Get started now! 1. Enlist the help of a family member or friend who can be supportive, physically and emotionally, and help keep you...
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