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New Website Aims To Be An iTunes For Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Emily Dickinson, poetryspeaks.com, Itunes, John Lundberg, Lifestyle, Hobbies, Edgar-Allen-Poe, Reading, Poetry, Poetryspeaks, Living News
John Lundberg

The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.

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Winterizing Your Home And Pet!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: AnimalFair.Com, Cold, Lifestyle, Pets, Pet, Tips, Winter, Winterizing, Home, Wendy Diamond, Animal Fair Magazine, Celebrities, Animals, Living News
Wendy Diamond

When Jack Frost "nips" at your nose, he really bites hard! Certainly you don't want a sick puppy. Best to prepare your four-legged loved ones from the winter cold.

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Top Glam Slam Pieces for the Holidays

Lauren and Suzanne McGrath | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Lifestyle, Fashion, Style, Fashion for the Holidays, Style News
Lauren and Suzanne McGrath

With the holidays fast approaching, this is usually the time of year when we start scouting out that one piece we'd like to add to our wardrobes to really kick it up a notch--and it usually involves a little (or a lot!) of sparkle.

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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Spiritual Women Have More Sex

LiveScience | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Living, Lifestyle, The Inner Life, Sex, Spirituality, Intimacy, Tantric Sex, Spiritual Sex, Sacred Sex, Living News

Is it sexy to be spiritual? New research has found that spirituality has a greater effect on the sex lives of young adults -- especially women -- than...

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How To Live On $0 A Day: This Could Be the Best Health Care Reform Plan You're Gonna Get

Lesley Stern | Posted 09.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Healthy Living, Depression, Lifestyle, Department of Health and Human Services, Humor, Economy, Economic Crisis, Health Insurance, Advice, Wellness, Recession, Financial Meltdown, Organic Food, Prevention, Exercise, Health, Satire, Insomnia, Living, Quit Smoking, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Comedy, Sleep, Michelle Obama, Bill Maher, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Sex is also a good, inexpensive form of exercise that doesn't require getting out of bed (although it may compel you to leave the fetal position). This will require a partner since batteries are costly.

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8 Million Americans Consider Suicide

Yahoo | Associated Press | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Depression, Depression Treatment, Suicide, Suicides, Death, Dying, Death and Dying, Death & Dying, Substance Abuse, Young Americans, Attempted-Suicide, Lifestyle, Living News

More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United St...

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Put In Those Earbuds And Watch The Scale Numbers Go Down

Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Lifestyle, American Obesity, Obesity Research, Exercise, Obesity Epidemic, Health, Obesity in America, Weight Loss, Weight, Physical Exercise, Obesity, Podcast, Living News

Successful weight loss may be just a podcast away. But what's on that podcast could make the difference between losing a modest amount of weight and ...

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Just Listen to Mark Goulston

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Authors, Lifestyle, Relationship Advice, Keith-Ferrazzi, How to Listen, Keith Ferrazzi, Career Advice, Mark Goulston, Business, Just Listen, Advice, Living News
Keith Ferrazzi

After watching Mark Goulston work, I can tell you why everyone from the FBI to Oprah pays attention when he talks about reaching people: his techniques, simple as they sound, really work.

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Is Happiness Catching?

New York Times | CLIVE THOMPSON | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Catching Happiness, Happiness, Is Happiness Catching, Is Happiness Catching?, Living News

EILEEN BELLOLI KEEPS very good track of her friends. Belloli, who is 74, was born in Framingham, Mass., which is where she met her future husband, Jos...

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How To Live On $0 A Day: Rich Corporate Executives Have Problems Too, You Know

Lesley Stern | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Lifestyle, Home, Fashion, Corporate Executives, Bailout, Wall Street, Humor, Economic Crisis, Satire, Economy, Financial Crisis, Cosmetic Surgery, Recession, Economic Meltdown, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

I know this is going to be difficult to hear, but you're going to have to pretend to make some major sacrifices.

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No Whining, No Griping, No Complaining: Take the Challenge and Reap the Rewards!

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Time, Lessons, Complaints, Lifestyle, Complaining, Patience, Challenge, Learning, Living News
Lissa Coffey

There's an organization that is challenging us to go 21 days without a complaint! Can we do it? I'm certainly going to give it a shot.

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The Clash of the Time Zones

Linda Buzzell | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Organic Gardening, Gardening, Lifestyle, Ecopsychology, Healthy Lifestyle, Ecotherapy, Time Stress, Living News
Linda Buzzell

Most of us start out 100 percent in the old culture and inch our way into a different and healthier way of living. But there's no denying that somewhere in the middle of this process we'll probably hit a bad case of Clash of the Time Zones.

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Breed Ban or Better Pet Selection?

Sophia Yin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Pet, Cat, Dog, Lifestyle, Pet Selection, askdryin.com, Puppy, Sophia Yin, Animals, Living News
Sophia Yin

Every year, when badly behaved dogs become the object of media focus someone asks me, " Do you think pitbulls should be banned as pets?" To which I usually answer, "No, but some owners should be banned from owning pitbulls...

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Attack of the Killer Onions

Sophia Yin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Style

Read More: Onions, Toxicity, Cat, Dog, Lifestyle, Onion Toxicity, Pets, Style News
Sophia Yin

You probably already know that chocolate can make your cat or dog sick, did you know that onions can kill?

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Three Things To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

Paula Forman and Jeff Johnson | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Mid-Life Crisis, Reinvent, Reinvention, Change, Daily Life, Lifestyle, Routine, Inner Life, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
Paula Forman and Jeff Johnson

The idea is to open yourself to experiences you have avoided in the past. You will see different things and meet different people and have different things to say.

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How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Longevity, Environmental Footprint, Fitness, Green, Green Living, Fitness Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Nutrition, Exercise, Childhood Nutrition, Physical Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Exercise Tips, Titanic, Dr. Andrew Weil, Healthcare Debate, Obesity Crisis, Obesity Epidemic, Food-Production, Healthcare Reform, Living News
Carole Carson

We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.

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Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Desperate Need for Cultural Healing

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Holistic Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Healing, American Culture, Diet, Western Medicine, Leukemia, Aml, Health, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Health Care Reform, Cancer, Health Care, Sleep, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Integrative Power, Living News
Cynthia Boaz

We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.

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Divorce Is Forever

Lissa Coffey | Posted 09.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Marriage, Challenges, Lifestyle, Relationships, Divorce, Personal Growth, Risks, Growth, Couples, Style News
Lissa Coffey

Marriage is a big risk. Divorce is another. Both take a commitment. It's a commitment to living life to its fullest, to being true to yourself, to doing what you feel is best, and to honoring the wisdom that you have gained through your experiences.

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Brain Health, Tbi, Cognitive Assessments, Bill Reichman, Cognitive Bias, Neuroscience, Schizophrenia, Cognitive Training, Treatment, Dana Foundation, Stanford University, Augmented Cognition, Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, World Economic Forum, Brain Fitness Software, Frontiers, Workplaces, Augmenting Cognition, Aging, Brain Awareness Week, Lifestyle, MATRICS Cognitive Battery, Libraries, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurocognitive, Pharmacological, Society for Neuroscience, Brain Age, Torkel Klingberg, Cognitive, Cognitive Age, Baycrest, Schools, Cognition, Healthcare, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.

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Sexy 101: 9 One-Size-Fits-All Tips on How to Let Your Sexy Rip

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Loss Coach, Ruby, Lifestyle, More to Love, Janice Taylor, Healthy Living, Drop Dead Diva, Humor, Weight Loss Motivation, Dance Your Ass Off, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Living News
Janice Taylor

Is 'chunky' in or out? The shows - Drop Dead Diva, More to Love, Dance Your Ass Off and Ruby - range from dance to comedy to reality - some promote health and weight loss, some say you're fine just as you are, as they light up the grill and fill up on dessert. Mixed messages for sure.

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Top 5 Tips for a Healthier, Happier Pet

Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Over, Lucky Diamond, Animal Fair, Treat, Pets, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Activity, Fat, Cat, Toy, Diet, Obesity, Weight, Wendy Diamond, Nutrient, Fit, Prevent, Gain, Obese, Play, Exercise, Health, Tips, Pet, Fitness, Fashion, Dog, Vet, Lose, Celebrities, Living News
Wendy Diamond

We are the sole controllers of what go into our pet's mouths so we must govern what we feed our pets and how to help them control their weight.

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Om Scampi: A Top Yogi Comes Out of the Meat-Eating Closet

Sadie Nardini | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Yoga, Lifestyle, Celebrities Talk Politics, Sadie, Fitness, Weight Loss, Health, Green Living, Meat, Organic, Omnivore, Living News
Sadie Nardini

Many top teachers actually think that unless you live according to a vegetarian and therefore, more "cruelty-free" existence, the gates of yogi heaven here on earth remain firmly closed to you.

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14 Steps To A Happier, Less Stressful Summer

health.com | By Kimberly Goad | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Stress Release, Summer, Health, Living, Stress Reduction, Happiness, Living News

Nothing against the other seasons, but summer is the one that inspires us to be our very best. Temps rise and suddenly all of our good intentions go f...

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The Benefits To This Recession

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 08.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Recession Fears, Lifestyle, Recession, New York City, New York, New York News
Dr. Tian Dayton

The simple pleasures seem worth more; walks through the park, dinners with friends; noticing and valuing what you already have and where you already are instead of always wanting to have more and be somewhere else.

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