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'The Apprentice': What Skills Are Key?
You're hired! Millions of viewers will tune into NBC on April 15 to hear the Donald utter these two words to one savvy job seeker on his hit reality show The Apprentice. Will it be Kwame Jackson or Bill Rancic? And why? What will be going through Trump's coiffed head when he hands down that final de
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Our Search for Religion and Spirituality
God is everywhere, literally. In America's coffee shops and train stops, people are talking about topics once reserved for Sunday school or Sunday dinner. In fact, if you haven't seen The Passion of the Christ or read The Da Vinci Code -- if you haven't at least tried meditation yet -- you're in the
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Can Prayer Heal?
Could it be possible? Could the prayers of a handful of people help someone -- even someone on the other side of the world -- facing heart surgery? A few years back, Roy L. was heading into his third heart procedure -- an angioplasty and stent placement. Doctors were going to thread a catheter up a
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The Passion of the Movies
Upon its release this Ash Wednesday, Mel Gibson's new film The Passion of Christ is sure to add to the passionate debate already surrounding the film. In the process, the film is poised to join a select list of films that highlight the unique ability of movies to sometimes go beyond mere entertainme
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Worry vs. Reality: The Real Risks You Face
Woody Allen defined major surgery as "anything being done to me." When it comes to evaluating medical risk -- or risk of any kind, for that matter -- it gets very personal, and when we're weighing threats to ourselves or to others we care about, we tend to think with our hearts rather than our heads
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Anger-obics Can Make Anger 'Work Out'
Anger-obics is not a crazed form of cardio engendered by being cut-off on the freeway, opening the credit card bill, or being unjustly accused by the boss. It's a set of techniques to defuse your anger and help you find a creative solution to the "flashpoints" we all encounter every day. But it's on
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Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Read the tea leaves, caffeine lovers. Tea is gaining ground over coffee. Tearooms are popping up everywhere. Even Starbucks is bucking up its tea menu. The health benefits of tea are one compelling reason: Green and black teas have 10 times the antioxidants found in fruits and veggies, by one estima
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Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Read the tea leaves, caffeine lovers. Tea is gaining ground over coffee. Tearooms are popping up everywhere. Even Starbucks is bucking up its tea menu. The health benefits of tea are one compelling reason: Green and black teas have 10 times the antioxidants found in fruits and veggies, by one esti
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To Start Losing, Start Loving
In therapy I learned that for much of my life, I inwardly feared and distrusted others. And I made my fear and mistrust of others bearable in two major ways: I surrounded myself with a protective "wall" of fat that physically kept me at a distance from people. And sometimes I simply kept my distance
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The "Food-Family Connection": Letting Go at Last
People can get caught up in emotional eating for many reasons, I'm sure, and at any age. For example, I knew someone who was slim until her 30s and then began compulsively overeating, and became fat, in response to extreme life changes. Everyone's emotional eating origins are uniquely personal; what
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