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#1 As you pass through your thirties and forties, you begin to notice changes in your body. You're gaining weight and experiencing cravings. You're feeling old before your time, and just plain off.
#2 There are many bad dogmas in the intermittent fasting community. Don't waste your time or energy on them. Focus on what's important: healthy food, when you eat it, and...
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#1 On August 1, the first day of practice for the 1988 season, Coach Gary Gaines delivered his team a new rallying cry: Coin to State in eighty-eight. His words could have come from any high school coach renewing the ritual of sport.
#2 Odessa, Texas, was founded in the 1880s by a group of men from Zanesville, Ohio. They saw a great opportunity to make money if they...
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#1 There are four rules of firearm safety: 1. Always treat your firearm as if it is loaded. 2. Never point your firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy. 3. Always keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. 4. Always be sure of your target and what is behind it before you pull the trigger.
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#1 The focus of tidying is on objects, while the focus of cleaning is on dirt. Tidying means moving objects and putting them away, while cleaning means wiping and sweeping away dirt. The responsibility for mess and clutter lies 100 percent with the individual.
#2 The key to my approach is to keep only those things that spark joy and to discard the rest. Does it spark...
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Get the Summary of Michelle Braun's High-Octane Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American adults fear Alzheimer¹s more than any other disease (including cancer), and because many people do not realize there is no genetic cause for 99 percent of Alzheimer¹s cases, they do not take the necessary steps to change lifestyle factors shown to significantly protect against the disease....
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#1 The movement toward sustainable landscaping is gaining momentum. Gardeners are planting more ecologically sound gardens that include both people and wildlife. These gardens are grounded in new concepts such as permaculture and ecological design, but they draw from traditional techniques and designs.
#2 Permaculture designer Larry Santoyo of Earthflow Design...
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#1 The first and most important step in home organizing is to answer some fun and meaty questions geared toward clarifying a vision for your ideal life. Once you have clarity about your goals, you can assess every space in your home against those goals to benchmark where you are and then map out what changes you need to make to reach alignment.
#2 The home of Olivia,...
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#1 The Philippines was ruled by Colonel Ferdinand Marcos in 1977. In 1986, mass protests led to the downfall of his regime. Today, Manila is a city of twenty-two million people with almost no notion of common public space.
#2 The Philippines has the world's highest use of selfies, and the highest use of social media per capita. It has also become a capital for...
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#1 A record pull is a gathering of friends or colleagues who play music for one another. It's a terrific way to enjoy the company of others, learn about your musical tastes, and explore aspects of your musical identity that you may not have noticed before. To help you get started, we'll spend the first half of the book examining the rules and guidelines of record pulls,...
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#1 I was the black sheep of the community, and I had been warned many times by the Mistress of Novices that I could not race down the staircase like that, taking two and three steps at a time.
#2 I was sent to Aigen, Austria, to teach Baron von Trapp's daughter. I was to leave the world and give up everything, but I did it wholeheartedly.
#3 I was bowing farewell to...
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#1 I signed copies of my book at 23rd Avenue Books in Portland, Oregon, in August 1996. Bob warned me that if I wanted to make a career out of writing, I'd need to release a new book every year. He said readers liked short sentences.
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#1 The author, who is extremely shy, must often turn the ears of others in her direction to get what she requires for survival and a good life. She can't always wait for unbidden champions to do her advocacy for her.
#2 We must learn to insist that we have rights to airtime. Our increased use of that punctuation mark, written or spoken, is one way to begin.
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#1 I had lived in China for five years by 2001, and I had traveled passively by bus, plane, boat, and train. But when I got a Chinese driver's license, I realized that nothing could be taken for granted.
#2 When I began planning my trip, a Beijing driver recommended The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps. The book divided the nation into 158 separate diagrams,...
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#1 Obsessive-compulsive disorder is not a quirk or just a habit. It is a mental illness that brings with it a sense of fear and anxiety. It is not a choice, and it does not bring any sense of fulfillment or joy.
#2 OCD is a brain and behavioral disorder that is associated with anxiety, fear, doubt, or disgust, or any combination of these. It can take up to seventeen...
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#1 The sculpture depicts a story from Roman mythology. One version goes like this: Pluto offends Venus, the goddess of love, and is punished by being transformed into a love-like madness. Proserpine, the daughter of the goddess Ceres, is nearby picking flowers.
#2 The sculpture of Proserpine is alive. Her body is strong, and she torques it forcefully against the god,...
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#1 I was born in 1969, and I didn't expect a career in the entertainment industry. Yet I was blessed with moxie, stick-to-itiveness, spunk, an off-kilter grin, and a near-delusional ignorance of my own limitations.
#2 I was so excited about the commercial that I showed up with giant red blotches all over my face and skin the morning of the shoot. The ad aired, and children...
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#1 The same impact of subtle movements underlies each and every one of your interactions with your dog. Dogs are brilliant at perceiving minute changes in our bodies and assume each tiny motion has meaning. Small movements that you make have huge consequences in your dog's behavior.
#2 Dogs are highly visual, and they are always watching us for the slightest movements...
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#1 When Emily fell, she was weightless for a moment between the point where the upward momentum from her limbs was about to give way to gravity, and the point where her body would hit the ground. Her body was still hers, but her fate was sealed.
#2 I was asked to come to the hospital to identify the body of Emily, who had died of apparent suicide. Her home city of New...
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#1 The two men who got on that flight from Moscow to London were actually spies working for a foreign power. They were career officers with Russian military intelligence. Their real names were Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. They had come to London to murder someone.
#2 The GRU, by contrast, was global. It dealt with external threats. Its mandate was everywhere....
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#1 Dominick's father, Anthony Santamaria, was a popular boy from the neighborhood who served in the Army Air Corps and fell in love with his mother after coming home a hero from the war. When Dominick began showing some athletic ability, his father told him that he would prefer living with him, but it was impossible so long as it meant living with Uncle Nino.
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