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Here is how Marla Cilley, better known by her nom de guerre, FlyLady, runs her business. Every morning she rolls out of bed and starts nagging. She sends a first e-mail to her 400,000 subscribers at about 7 A.M., reminding them to get up and get dressed. Throughout the day she’ll send about ten more [...]

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Our search for modern design furniture has begun. For decades people have engaged in a love (and money) affair with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings, but today, even lava lamps are bubbling with value. From the iconic Art Deco designs of the 1920s and ’30s to the cool blond lines of Heywood-Wakefield’s “Modern” line, [...]

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Flip-flops have matured from their surfer roots to become acceptable footwear not just on the beach, but also in everyday life. With sandals showing up everywhere from the office to weddings, footwear companies have had to find ways to differentiate their thongs from the rest. Think about brands like Birkenstock. Just hearing that name makes people [...]

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Several months ago Silvia Cuevas took stock of her life, and it was a profoundly unsettling experience. At 40 she had a solid job with a modest salary at the public library in Santa Ana, Calif. She’d carefully squirreled away some savings and bought herself a little house. She was financially secure - and utterly [...]

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Tom Pirelli’s life changed on a hot, black-shingled roof in Ensenada, Mexico, where he and others were building a plywood house for a poor family as volunteers for a nonprofit. He relished the experience but fought a sense of dismay. “I was disappointed in the quality of houses being built: small and cheap as we [...]

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