Lifestyle Columns
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Prime-time schedule has a familiar look this fallSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - You know all those frayed and tattered tires turning up in such abundance alongside the highways these days? One of them could have been the 2007-2008 TV season. The 100...
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How to recognize the signs of pubertySep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Is a breast lump in a 9-year-old cause for concern? Not for me, or for the office nurse who returned the mother's call. But my nurse still set up a visit because - with ...
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Eating disorders - and treatments - know no agesSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Mary Kay Pytel has finally beaten a disease that ravaged her body and consumed her life for 40 years. Today the former bulimic, who used to throw up as often as 20 times...
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'Sticky blood' often result of rare disorderSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am writing in response to the gentleman in a recent column who said he had "sticky blood." I have factor V, double genetics, which makes me a homozygote. There...
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Prickly characters, crassness mar 'The Women'Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - At a pivotal point in Diane English's "The Women," Mary Haines says to her best friend Sylvia Fowler, "You act as if this is some 1930s movie!" The joke is, of course, t...
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Wooden doors need time to dry after being stripped of paintSep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. A few months ago, I had my interior Douglas-fir doors stripped of paint by a contractor. They were dipped in methylene chloride (most strippers seem to go this ro...
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Foreclosure crisis drives home value of private mortgage insuranceSep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The blame game for the development of the current mortgage crisis is now in full swing, and, with one exception, no major participant escapes unscathed: • Lenders and in...
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Shall we gather at the Kentucky resort?Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Q: My family just returned from a driving vacation out to Idaho, with stops at Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore. Your previous articles were a big help. Now our next p...
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Days of luxury in the air appear to be gone for goodSep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Every year, Mark Cameron plans a trip to warm weather for the week after Christmas. But this year, he may be left out in the cold because air fares are heating up. "I ch...
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Can landlord abruptly declare 'no pets' policy?Sep 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I work for a local humane society and was wondering about the rights of tenants to have pets in their rental unit. We frequently receive calls from tenants with p...