Your Year In Review
On New Year's Day, most of us wake up with a renewed sense of potential and possibility - unless of course a nasty champagne hangover keeps us from ev...
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New Year's Resolutions, Caviar-Style
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Finally: it's over. You've given your last gift to the wretched ungrateful masses (and perhaps have already regifted, thrown away, or exchanged prese...
Why Your New Year's Resolutions Won't Work
Tony Alcindor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
The presents have been opened (for those who celebrated...I want to be PC here), the dinner is done and by now most of you are back home dealing with ...
HuffPost Gets Physical! Our Best Diet And Fitness Tips Of 2007
Huffington Post Living | The Living Editors | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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Whether or not you believe in resolutions, the start of a new year usually inspires some sort of change. And we're guessing that somewhere between the...
How To Survive A Holiday Hangover
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
It's no secret that the holidays are a time for celebration, which always includes a lot of eating and drinking, and sometimes a lot of merriness. We...
Respect: A New Year's Resolution
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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With the New Year approaching fast, this is a time of new beginnings, of resolutions, of fresh starts. Often we make lists of things we will do in th...
Amazon.com Has Best Season Ever
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday its 2007 holiday season was its strongest to date, with Nintendo Wii game systems and the "Harry Potter and the Order o...
Retailers Usher In Post-Christmas Business
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Retailers ushered in the post-Christmas shopping season Wednesday by opening earlier than ever and slashing prices, with hopes that bargain hunters an...
8 Things You Need To Know About Gift Cards
Bankrate Via CNBC | Ellen Cannon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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There's no denying the popularity of gift cards. You'll probably be getting or giving one this holiday season. As a last-minute gift, it's a no-braine...
Giving "Twelve Days Of Christmas" Gifts Would Cost $19,507
New York Times | Elizabeth Olson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Maids a-milking finally received a raise this year and gold prices jumped, a combination that made it more costly than ever to bestow the elaborate se...
Merry Christmas, Baby
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
'Tis the season...to rock out with Christmas-themed YouTube videos! The holiday season has inspired some great music, comedy and artistic collaboration, and here are some of our favorites: Bowie and Bing, Bono and Bruce, Shane and Kristy — with a little Spanish thrown in there as a special treat for Tom Tancredo. God bless us, every one!
Retailers Get Holiday Wish: Last-Minute Shopping Surge
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Just weeks ago, the holiday shopping season seemed headed for disaster. But in the waning hours before Christmas, the nation's retailers got their wis...
Happy Holidays From The Huffington Post
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Retailers Hope For Strong Final Push
Wall Street Journal | Richard Gibson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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The final weekend of the holiday shopping season will likely bring a sigh of relief from many retailers who feared that sales would be weak. Although...
Corporate Suits Embrace Holiday E-Cards
New York TImes | Maria Aspen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Have you sent out your holiday cards this year? What about your e-cards? If your second answer was yes, you are in good company. Once seen as the tac...
Coach, Best Buy Lure Shoppers With Instant Checkout
Bloomberg | Cotton Timberlake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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U.S. retailers, confronting what may be the worst holiday-sales season in five years, are trying to get shoppers out of their stores. The FAO Schwarz...
Joy Is The Reason For The Season
Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
How can we stay unruffled by the holiday chaos and truly celebrate this magical time of year?
The Holidays Shouldn't Be A Race Against Time
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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We don't need to understand Einstein's theory of relativity to see that time is an elusive construct. Nowhere is this changing perception of time more...
Frustrated Wii Hunters Hit The Web
Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Maybe Sony's PS3 will really launch a comeback next year, but in the meantime video game shoppers desperately want a Wii. Latest evidence: A handy cha...
Gifts That Give (Like This Rat)
NEED Magazine | Liz Werner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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This gift guide was originally published in NEED magazine. (Full disclosure: We're kind of obsessed with this magazine at the Living section. Check ou...
Last-Minute Shoppers Worry About Shipping Rush
USA Today | Bruce Horovitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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Folks still fret over how many shopping days are left until Christmas. But Net-savvy shoppers worry about something else: How many shipping days? Aft...
Celebrating The Spirit Of The Season
Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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As I sat down to write this week's column, I turned on the stereo and scrolled to my play-list of Christmas songs. Joy to the World Hark the Herald ...
Hooking Up At The Office Party: Don't!
Catherine Specter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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Once the holidays are over, nobody remembers how much they ate, how badly they danced, or even how much they drank. But they will remember that you got freaky.
How To Make The Most Of Your Holiday Greetings
Samara O'Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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It's not too late--to send holiday cards that is. I just bought my stack the other day. I'm sure some of you were hoping it was too late as cards can ...
Am I Green, Or Just A Grinch?
E. A. Hanks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
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I don't want to be a grinch, but the Grinch was green, wasn't he? It seems like most things are going green - designer bags, cars, houses, even Christmas trees. Why shouldn't Christmas itself be the same?
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