Lifestyle Columns
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Survivor storiesSep 05, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bush administration has all but banned news media from showing coffins and body bags coming back from Iraq, but there's nothing it can do to silence the walking woun...
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How to avoid exposing your camera to harmSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - On a recent flight to Dallas, I witnessed a shooting. It wasn't a hijacker trying to take over the aircraft. It was an amateur photographer trying to take a picture of h...
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Oops, he booked the wrong hotelSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. I booked a hotel room directly through the Daysinn.com Web site. I thought I had reserved a room at the Days Inn in Franklin, Ind., but somehow I ended up with a ...
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Taking the kids to two of the seven new world wondersSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Introducing kids to history through travel beats reading a textbook, but oh, some of that travel can be painful. I easily recall blistering summer heat while walking dow...
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Makin' Bacon madAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - "Death Sentence" 2½ stars out of four Opens today Starring As Kevin Bacon Nick Hume Garrett Hedlund Billy Darely Kelly Preston ...
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Film buffs welcome at my movie clubAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - •For the first time in our long friendship, I will team up with former James Bond novelist Raymond Benson of Buffalo Grove to present a movie discussion/lecture series a...
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Lovin' summerAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - For decades now, summer has been the time for cable networks to shine and the broadcast networks to retreat to the shadows to rest up for fall. For a while, the major br...
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World takes different approach to adsAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - When I was a kid back in school, asked for my favorite pastime, I'd say watching TV. "I like the commercials," I'd insist. Let that be an illustration that TV critics ar...
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Trying to live a normal life, even when I don'tAug 26, 2007 11:00 pm - As a cancer patient, my calendar is full. A recent week featured a CT scan and a blood test to monitor the effectiveness of drug therapy and to be on the lookout for any...
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Airport shuttle's a no-show in Las VegasAug 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. On a recent visit to Las Vegas we purchased a round-trip shuttle-bus ticket from the airport to our hotel through Gray Line. We followed all their instructions, calli...