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May 3, 2000

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Business & Finance

Knack for Neat can Translate to a Personal Organizing Business

Personal organizing can be a good startup business choice for the neat freak

By: Shirley Gregory

Film & TV

Boondock Saints

Review of Troy Duffy's film Boondock Saints, frear from its ideas.

By: Andrej Ristic

The Economy of Opening Scenes - THE SEA WOLF (1941)

An example of how older movies could pack information into remarkably short scenes, as in Michael Curtiz's THE SEA WOLF.

By: John Vincent Brennan

Food & Drink

Grilling Season is Here!

Ever wonder if that owner's guide that came with your barbecue is worthwhile? I checked out mine, and here are the results.

By: Kimberly Skopitz

Home & Style

Book review: Exploring Machine Trapunto by Hari Walner

New designs and ideas with an easy machine trapunto technique. Put simply, tranpunto is a technique used to get a stuffed look in a quilt. Traditionally the effect was achieved once all the quilting was finished; this book teaches you a no-stuff technique that creates the effect before the final quilting is begun and without creating holes in the back of your quilt.

Lacemaking in Bruges, Belgium

A brief history of lacemaking in Bruges with photos and books availabel for making Bruges Lace.

Start Your Active Lifestyle

OK, you're loosing weight, and getting fit. Now it's time to choose an active lifestyle that's just right for you. From mall walking to mountain climbing, and everything in between, there is something for everyone.

By: Eileen O'dea

Partners & Parents

Suffer the Little Ones

Divorce is not just a mom and dad thing. It affects children deeply. This article looks at the effect of divorce on children.

The Babies are Arriving and Just How Large Did I Get Anyway?

The last 4 months of Carrie's twin pregnancy. What scary and humorous things happened?

By: Carrie Webbenhurst

Traveling With Toddlers

This article offers helpful hints on taking your toddler on vacation. Since toddlers are so active it's often hard to decide where to take them and how to get there. There are also links included for campsites, family vacation discussions and for some toddler-friendly vacation sites.

By: Charlene Cunningham

Politics & Society

Italian Government: Another One Bites the Dust

With the resignation of Massimo D'Alema the Italian Republic has used up its 57th government since 1945. Used up is even the prime minister whose nine-party coalition has been quarrelling without a pause for over a year. Now D’Alema has stepped down after the negative results of his center-left coalition in regional elections. The opposition "Freedom-Pool" led by media-tycoon Silvio Berlusconi won in eight of fifteen regions. Berlusconi´s alliance with his former rival Umberto Bossi of the Northern League has worked particularly well in the productive north asking for devolution. A week after D'Alema's resignation the center-left coalition agreed on the previous treasury minister Giuliano Amato to lead the new government. Due to massive party interference the new prime minister, a Socialist, has presented only a poor cabinet and program. Clinging to power, the party leaders of the center-left coalition don’t seem to have the slightest clue on how to prepare for the general elections early next year.

By: Peter Weber

Opening Moves In the Vegas War

The opening actions in the war between New York and Chicago over expansion in Las Vegas

By: Ron Lombard

Reading & Literature

Workshopping Poetry

Guest columnist Mary Hope shares her workshop experiences with Poetry at suite101.com.

Technology

Reading Support Teachers -- Using the Internet to Reach Out

An article about the RST program and how we can use the Internet to save it.

By: Caroline Baker

Education & Career

"Must Haves" for Guest Teaching

Save yourself some money and a broken back from lugging around uselss materials! You'll find no "fluff" in this list of things that subs just gotta have.

By: Melissa Sztuczko-Payk

Health & Wellness

Imagery Exercise: Best of Who I Am

This is a visualization exercise to help redirect your focus when feeling an aura or simple partial seizure. It is also useful when feeling particularly low after a seizure when your spirits could use a lift.

By: Paulette Le Pore Motzko

Seizure Abort Technique: Personifying a Dolphin

Using effective diversion tactics to attempt to abort a seizure. If given a "warning", auras or simple partial seizure-you can often remain conscious.

By: Paulette Le Pore Motzko

History

Captivating Caroline

My article this month is about Caroline Norton who changed English law so that married women had more rights over their children and their income.

By: Viola Ashford

Mind & Soul

Finding Happiness

Excerpts from a letter to my daughter on finding happiness through personal responsibility

By: Kerry Dennis

Understanding Agoraphobia.

Wondering what agoraphobia is, or how it develops? Here are the basics on agoraphobia.

By: Jennifer Salt

Outdoor & Recreation

St. Mary's Falls

St. Mary's Falls is a lovely, rushing waterfall at the end of a comfortably long trail. The trail winds through aspen and evergreen trees beside a creek. It is an exceptional hike in any season.

By: Virginia O'Connor

Plants & Animals

Melanie Mason, Best Friend to Daylilies

Visit with the author of North end of a south-bound horse... Road Apples in the Garden of Eden, Melanie Mason.

By: Ellen Roddy

The Mute Swan, is a huge all white Eurasian "pond" swan, almost tame and is now naturally unrestrained in the Eastern United States.

By: Fred J. Kane

Trees and shrubs I love to see in my garden

The trees and shrubs I love to see growng in my garden. But do I want to tell you what to grow? It is far too easy for me to hand out a list of do's and don'ts, to lecture on the errors and mistakes that gardeners make, the same errors that littered my progress in my thrilling journey to becoming a “gardener”. The answer is "No"

Sports

Pierce on a high

In winning the tournament at Hilton Head, Mary Pierce broke Chris Evert's record of fewest games won en route to the Familcy Circle Cup. Indeed, Mary was invincible, notching up some comprehensive wins over Monica Seles and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario. Call it premature, but she is ready for bigger and brighter things at Roland Garros this year.

By: Michael Cecilio

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