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No alibis! You must exercise!
02/24/2010
STOP WIMPERING. CUT OUT THE PHONEY EXCUSES. You know you must exercise to some degree if you want to remain alive. Walking is wonderful and you must do it every day, but there are ways you can sneak life-enhancing exercise into your everyday chores.
Read more...Hope dies last, said Studs
02/17/2010
AUTHOR STUDS TERKEL, WHO DIED AT 96, lived through the Great Depression and said the lessons to be learned were: Don’t blame yourself; turn to others; take part in the community; and the big boys are not that bright. Terkel wrote Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.
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Why not marry for money?
02/10/2010
IT IS ALMOST VALENTINE’S DAY and the emphasis is on love, love, love. FOR SINGLE WOMEN LOOKING FOR MARRIAGE, perhaps money, money, money should at least share in the search for Mr. Right.
Read more...Is your lover cheating on you?
02/03/2010
A FRIEND JUST PHONED, sobbing and desperate, because her husband admitted he’d been having an affair with a married nurse he met at his doctor’s office. And he confided they had been cheating on their mates for more than a year.
Read more...12 things women do that men hate
01/27/2010
IF THERE IS A BIBLE FOR SINGLE GALS it should be Jennifer Bawden’s Get A Life, Then Get a Man because she unveils the 12 things women do that men hate. And so they run away, fast.
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You can stop CEOs' obscene payouts
01/20/2010
THE BUCK STOPS WHERE? It can stop with you! YOU, THE STOCKHOLDER, CAN SCREAM “ENOUGH!” and stop rewarding CEOs with ridiculously inflated paychecks, golden parachutes, buyout bonanzas and amazing stock options.
Read more...Over-the-counter diuretics can kill
01/13/2010
AS WE SADLY WRITE THIS STORY, a beautiful brunette, 25, daughter of a Cook County Court judge, is lying brain-dead at Illinois Masonic Hospital. Family and friends are praying.
Read more...Can you walk around naked?
01/06/2010
IN YOUR OWN HOME? YES, OF COURSE. Not so fast, remember what happened to Eric Williamson who got up early Oct. 19 and walked naked into his own kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee?
Read more...Hang in there. Better times are coming
12/30/2009
WE ARE POISED ON THE BRINK of a new year, 2010, and our lives must get better. FINALLY, THERE WILL BE AN END to the Tiger Woods drama, and to the Jon and Kate Gosselins’ talentless comedy, and hopefully, more jobs.
Read more...Fore love or fame?
12/23/2009
DAHLINGS, FOR DAYS WE HAVE WITNESSED A PARADE of sexy broads eager to share details of their alleged affairs with a major sport star. WAS IT A PARADE OF SAINTS OR SLUTS? Surely these young attractive women were only looking for love - only with this super star because they were smitten, seduced by his fame, and fortune. We cannot judge them harshly, or can we?
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