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    01/23/08
    Couples turn reading into a joint venture
    Couples turn reading into a joint venture
    12/19/07
    'Holiday' doesn't need to mean 'perfect'
    Sometimes the best traditions come out of simple surprises.
    11/07/07
    Most parents do know where their kids are
    US Census Bureau reports parents are more involved in their children's lives than a decade ago.
    10/24/07
    Today's fast-spending youth could learn from Depresssion-era savers
    Remember the phrase 'money doesn't grow on trees?' It still doesn't.
    09/05/07
    A 'girlfriend getaway' unites us
    Middle-school friends, decades later, meet to share their lives in Lake Geneva, Wis.
    08/22/07
    Fashion industry gives rise to a 'disposable culture'
    The push to wear the latest clothes helps clutter our closets with old castoffs.
    08/8/07
    The names we use for people over 50
    Whatever you do, don't say 'elderly.' The preferred word choice in a new survey: 'older.'
    07/25/07
    The numbered days of the solo commute
    Proposed congestion taxes could make driving alone a luxury of the past.
    07/11/07
    A harvest of virtues as well as sustenance
    Two new books remind readers how closely most Americans used to be connected to the land.
    05/30/07
    How 'the perfect day' has changed
    Marriages may be more stable as couples wait longer to get married. But they spend more, too.
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