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The wedding cake has been a matrimonial staple since medieval times. Now, high-end cake designers are serving up more colorful, more elaborate, more personalized – and more expensive – wedding cakes than ever before. The cake soared five tiers, some of them carrot, some double chocolate. The icing, in deep blues and greens, was etched […]
Continue ReadingIt takes one look around any lecture hall or office to make you believe that the ink pen’s days are numbered. But the trusted writing instrument is not ready to roll off the table yet. In the United States and abroad, the fountain pen – the fancier and more respectable cousin of cheap ballpoints – […]
Continue ReadingIn the name of melting off pounds, would you inject a hormone extracted from a pregnant woman’s urine? Even one that studies show does nothing to help weight loss? Based on anecdotal evidence, more and more dieters are saying “yes.” Almost every morning last month, Leigh Cordiner, a Floridian living in the US Virgin Islands, […]
Continue ReadingHas it really been 10 years since Viagra burst onto the scene and into the medicine cabinets of American men? A look back at the medical/cultural phenomenon that’s resurrected late-life sex and provided endless fodder for late-night comedians. Little blue pill. The nickname is synonymous with the medical breakthrough, financial cash cow and cultural phenomenon […]
Continue ReadingTypewriters are back. People young and old are shunning the distractions of modern computers in favor of the old manual machines. Last year Jim Bouchard, then aged 18, found himself temporarily living in the basement of a friend after his parents had been forced to move away from town. His possessions were all stored in […]
Continue ReadingThirty years after the feminist movement spurred women to keep their maiden names, women are choosing to hold on to these names for a different reason – to preserve their ethnic identities. Cara August has always enjoyed her identity as a self-described “mutt.” On St. Patrick’s Day, August says, she embraces her mother’s Irish ethnicity. […]
Continue ReadingIXeo releases IX-world, the free travel planner with direct access to hotel suppliers from all global markets without intermediary charges… Users can finally go online to free search and plan a complete itinerary using intuitive travel planning & booking functionality. The travel planner allows mixing and matching of relevant travel & destination information around member […]
Continue ReadingHeather Mills has been awarded £24.3m in her divorce settlement with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney… Speaking outside London’s High Court, Ms Mills said she was “glad it’s over” and “it was an incredible result to secure mine and my daughter’s future”. However, the High Court judge who presided over the Mills-McCartney divorce battle accused […]
Continue ReadingBuying diamonds is now a matter of conscience, not just taste and deep-pockets. Since agreements now assure that most diamonds come from non-conflict zones, activists also want buyers to consider human rights abuses, low wages, slave labor and a host of other egregious practices that still take place in non-conflict mining countries. On posh Madison […]
Continue ReadingNovice and professional cooks alike are snapping up strange and specialized kitchen contraptions, but do they really need lettuce knives, shrimp deveiners and avocado slicers? For years, Wendy Ries of Saskatchewan, Canada, would chop up lettuce for salads, miffed that the left-over end of the lettuce head would inevitably turn partly brown. Convinced the lettuce […]
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