Lifestyle Columns
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These cool hotels are unique -- by designMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - When a property calls itself Hotel Unique, it had better deliver. No worries. The one-of-a-kind Sao Paulo manse that claims this name does so in spades, starting with a ...
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Civil War tour begins SaturdayMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A new Civil War tour of Washington includes a visit to the newly restored Lincoln Cottage, Abe Lincoln's summer retreat on the campus of the U.S. Armed For...
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Subcontractors have a right to get paid for workMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. We've hired a contractor to finish our basement. After agreeing on a price, we signed a contract regarding costs, payments, allowances for various items, etc. We ...
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Sealing with caulk keeps out yellow jacketsMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. Last summer, I had yellow jackets enter my home via a crack by the electrical box on the outside wall. I sprayed some hornet wasp killer into the opening. The nex...
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Parents should act when flighty kids take offMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Last week, when my plane landed in Chicago after flying from San Francisco, it looked like it had been caught in some serious turbulence. Chunks of fruit were stuck to t...
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With a baby coming, it's time to grow upMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. My wife is 4½ months pregnant. For the past year or so I've had an "office girlfriend" -- a single woman at my office who is fun to flirt and eat lunch with, but noth...
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Princess confiscated passenger's CognacMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. We have a somewhat unusual case we need help with. My wife and I went on a Princess Cruises cruise/train tour of Alaska last fall. The night before we disembarked...
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Mix with Bix and all that jazzMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Hollywood, Calif., didn't get it right. Davenport, Iowa, did. And legions of jazz lovers and flocks of tourists are glad of it. The 1950 movie "Young Man With a Horn" is...
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Turn your trip into a work of artMay 17, 2008 11:00 pm - There's nothing like capturing the all-American summer vacation in images and reliving the fun and flubs with the family -- like the time the rented RV got stuck in Indi...
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These pieces might make it to antiqueMay 16, 2008 11:00 pm - What new or recent furniture might draw attention on some road show of the future? The Keno brothers, known for their antique savvy, named some choices in this month's T...