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Chivalry is not dead, but it nearly killed me. Here's how it happened.
A year ago, I started this column with a description of a place on the Maine ...
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In July 2004, after several years of collaboration, Karen Behnke and Melissa Jochim officially launched their revamped organic line of products, dubbed Juice Beauty. For three years the San Rafael company has been producing what it claims is the only skincare collection on the market that uses an organic base made from juice concentrates. According to Behnke, their patent-pending formulas have up to 95 percent organic ingredients-the highest level of any product on the market. The company's line of over 20 products includes everything from the high-end green apple collection that can be found at Sephora stores, upscale spas, boutiques and Whole Foods, to a just-rolled-out, less-concentrated line that will soon be on drugstore shelves. All the products are pesticide- and petroleum-free a...
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Two and a half years ago, Brian Sidella was contemplating a career change when he tuned into an episode of Fox's extreme makeover show "The Swan."
An ...
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The mustache, if you're wondering, is a little shout out to his father and not, if you're wondering, John Holmes. Ryan Miller scrapped the playoff beard because it wasn't working and figured he would have a little fun. You know, why not keep his team loose in a playoff series that has been so tight?
I've grown beards seven years in a row, and we haven't won yet, so try something different," Miller said. "Dean Miller, circa 1988. That's all I remember, my dad with a mustache for a while. He went through this phase where he had everything. Beard. Goatee. Mustache. Soul patch. He's always very creative.
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Even though a state statute requires property insurers to pay the policy limits for a total loss, insurers of homes hit by Hurricane Rita are not required to pay the face value of the policies, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled. This is because the policies contained an "alternative loss calculation," the court said.
The homes were damaged by wind and flood, and the damage exceeded the value of the homes.
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The Orpheum has seen a rise in the number of ticket buyers falling prey to online scalpers using official-looking websites to sell tickets at inflated prices.
Whenever we have a popular show, it gets worse," said Teresa Ward, vice president of ticketing. "We've had people come up to us every night at (the current musical production of) 'Memphis.' They are furious, because they're convinced that they bought a ticket from us.
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You could be forgiven if you leaped to a hasty judgment about Michael Jovante Johnson based on the photo that appeared on the front page of Saturday's Maryland Gazette.
It sure scared the devil out of me.
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[Janet Holmes]' use of word play, her awareness of sound and her forays into the nascent and wide-open dialect of text-messaging are the leaven that lightens her potentially weighty subject matter. For example, in the poem "Lake," the phrase "point of view" echoes from "love you" to "if you," revealing the music of spoken language, as well as its potential for distortion. "Glassicaglia" (formed from "passacaglia," the Baroque dance, and the Biblical quote, "through a glass darkly") exemplifies Holmes' ample ability to play with hybrid and fragmented words. The recurring, shifting significance of the letter E (as in E-mail, Eros, Eurydice, etc.), as well as the works' varied voices and dialogic forms, give evidence of a poet skilled in the medium and implication of her craft.
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After years of raw data flooding in from Web-based channels, a broader set of companies now prefers person-to-person surveys - in part due to a corporate drive to obtain quality data as opposed to sheer quantity according to Jim Follett, chief executive officer of Survey Sampling International L.L.C. The Fairfield company provides sets of survey participants for market research companies, depending on the nature of a poll to be undertaken.