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How To Survive The Holidays Like A Hot Chick

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Christmas, The Full Life, How to Survive the Holiday Season, Tips for the Holiday Season, Holiday Season, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Hot Chicks, Holiday Diet, Living News
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent

Many of you Hot Chicks think that if you don't bestow a fruitcake and tree shaped sugar cookies to all of your friends and co-workers in December then you are a failure who might as well go back to woman school. But ladies, that's not true.

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Courting Controversy: Cosmetic Limb Lengthening Surgery

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Cosmetic Limb Lengthening, Medical Ethics, How to Grow, Limb Lengthening, Living News
Dr. Rock Positano

Medical miracles are sometimes stark but painful. Case in point: limb lengthening procedures advanced at a leading New York Hospital. Akash Shulka, a ...

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Dr. Mona Knows: Money And Relationships

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Relationship Advice, Mona Ackerman, The Full Life, Infidelity, What to Do if You're Unfaithful, Sex, What to Do if You Cheat, Cheating, Money and Relationships, Living News
Mona Ackerman

An analysis of any relationship should include a cold and painfully honest awareness of oneself. What traits make you happy? What traits make you unhappy? What can you live with? What can't you live without?

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Napping Required For Sanity

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Heather Cabot

But the experience of waking up refreshed got me thinking about something I already knew but rarely apply to my life: the art of rest and recovery. It is one of the key principles of being a well mom.

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How To Make Your New Boss Happy

Christine Hassler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Twenty-Something Problems, Office Conduct, New Job, Twenty-Something Advice, Navigating Office Politics, Quarterlife Crisis, Office Space, How to Make Your New Boss Happy, 30/20 Vision Podcast, They Don't Teach Corporate in College, Careerbuilder, Living News
Christine Hassler

Dear Christine, What are the expectations of me the first day and week of a new job? And then what are the expectations after three months? - Comment...

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Staying In The Groove (When There Isn't One)

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Life Coaching, Productivity, How to Be Happy, Work Life Balance, Technology and Producivity, Stress-Free Work Habits, Working With Less Stress, Techniques for Less Stress, How to Be Less Stressed, Living News
David Allen

I'm often asked "Are we really living in a different world than the 'old days?'" Is there something uniquely stressful about the world as we're experi...

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The Mystery of the Rosetan People

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Living, The Full Life, Roseto Pennsylvania, Living News
Dr. Rock Positano

Roseto, Pennsylvania was a starkly healthier place to live, and no one could guess why.

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Dr. Mona Knows... How To Handle Family Holiday Dysfunction

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Advice Column, Families and Thanksgiving, The Full Life, Family Feuds, Family Dysfunction Holidays, Preparing for the Holidays, Living News
Mona Ackerman

When I suggested to an actress that she distance herself from pain by treating her relatives as characters in her play she said, "It didn't work! My mother kept upstaging me!"

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A Thanksgiving State Of Mind

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Thanksgiving Family, Stress-Free Thanksgiving, Work-Life Balance, How to Handle Your Family on Thanksgiving, Motherhood and Thanksgiving, Living News
Heather Cabot

I say, when you have two kids under two, you've just gone back to work, your husband has been traveling and your nanny has been on vacation for two weeks, you can't put a price on staying put.

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Share A 20-Something Story

Christine Hassler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Full Life, The Quarter-Life Crisis, Living News
Christine Hassler

I want to share about my evolution from a 20-something with no answers about my life to an early 30-something offering answers about 20-something life.

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Stalking The Wild Projects

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: How to Prioritize Your Life, David Allen, The Full Life, Life Coaching, Living News
David Allen

There is a subtlety and rigorous mental discipline required to create that "complete and accurately defined inventory of our projects."

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Food For Thought

E. A. Hanks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Brooklyn, Bagels, Living News
E. A. Hanks

It's been well documented that living in New York is like living on its own planet, or better yet, a cult. To become fully indoctrinated, you have to pass through several stages, check things off your New Yorker List.

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The Gout: Scourge of the Holiday Season

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Thanksgiving, Rock Positano, Gout, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Dr. Rock Positano

Tis the season to beware of the dreaded gout! Next thing you know your knee, ankle, or big toe starts throbbing in the middle of the night.

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Dr. Mona Knows What To Do When Friends Fight

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Maintaining Friendships, How to Resolve Conflict, Mona Ackerman, When Friends Fight, Conflict Resolution, The Full Life, Living News
Mona Ackerman

Out of respect for the length of your friendship, call for a sit-down. Open up. Admit your fragilities, your insecurities. Discuss the roles you both have been playing.

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Making Room For Two Religions In One Family

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Families and Religion, The Full Life, How to Teach Your Kids Religion, How to Celebrat Diwali, How to Cook Curry, Living News
Heather Cabot

No, I was on an emotional quest to track down the "Seven Vegetable" delicacy that my husband grew up eating on Diwali, the Hindu New Year and Festival of Lights. I wanted to surprise him.

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Carole's Bookmarks: A Personal Journey of Giving

Carole Bayer Sager | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Cancer, Parents With Cancer, Kabbalah, Caring for Cancer Patients, Giving Back, Living News
Carole Bayer Sager

It's as if one day, I just got it: at any given moment we all are just doing the best we can.

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Ankles In Agony

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Dr. Rock Positano

There is no such thing as a simple ankle sprain!!

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Dr. Mona Knows How To Handle Stress

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Mona Ackerman

Transitions of any sort are difficult and stressful. This may sound funny, but all you can do is relax and feel the pain.

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Beam Me Up! (Or How To Be In Two Places At Once)

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Full Life, Work Life Balance, Working Mothers, Stay at Home Mothers, The Well Mom, Living News
Heather Cabot

I think I had a brush with teleportation (or something like it) last week.

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The Twenty-Something Life: Your Questions On Divorce and Eating Disorders Answered

Christine Hassler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Christine Hassler

Your parents getting divorced at any age is going to be difficult so don't pressure yourself to be un-phased by this just because you are an adult.

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Taking Work Personally

David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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David Allen

You're the one that's weird in thinking "work" and "personal" are different things. In the history of the planet only in the last dozen decades have people assumed these were different, and I don't imagine that farmers or most craftspeople ever have.

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Why Hand Washing Is Your Best Friend

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Dr. Rock Positano

It doesn't cost anything but a few moments of one's time,yet few people fully appreciate the importance of the often overlooked ritual of washing one's hands .

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Dr. Mona Knows: Unrequited Love

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Mona Ackerman

Having a relationship with you is what she treasured, hoped for, and ultimately realized.

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Happy "Hah-mo-neem"!

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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Heather Cabot

I don't know about you, but I found myself completely caught up in the Halloween hype this season.

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B-School Adds Socially Responsible Investing To The Curriculum

Wall Street Journal | Ron Alsop | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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These days, more business schools are teaching students about corporate social responsibility, and more are establishing investment funds for M.B.A.s ...

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