| Tips for being frugal and fabulous
Buying all the best brands? Not so frugal. Picking through your neighbor's trash? Not so fabulous. With the country's economic health on the line, how can you save money without suffering style? Here are some ideas to live the fabulous life while still being frugal: Do your own darn toenails -- The only people who might look at your feet closely enough to know the difference between a DIY pedicure and a fancy spa treatment won't judge you for it anyway, suggests Megan O. Steintrager, 35, an editor in New York. Use pale colors; a bright red coat might show if it's out of the lines. And besides, sandal season is months away. It's all in the packaging -- Refill fancy-brand soap dispensers with generic liquid soap, says Jeanne-Marie Hudson, 36, a marketing director for a publishing company.
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Letters: Needed: A better city for wheelchair users
I'd like to commend Daniel Rubin for two recent columns on Philadelphians' struggles to navigate their neighborhoods in wheelchairs ("Bumpy roads for wheelchairs," Jan. 31, and "City is a rough ride for wheelchair users," Jan. 28). The columns raise important issues about access, and highlight the difficulties that people with disabilities have in getting around a city built in colonial times that has been rarely renovated with wheelchairs in mind. There should not be two Philadelphias, one for the able-bodied and one for the disabled. We hope Mayor Nutter and his new administration will begin to address these inequalities. Until the city gets involved and starts demanding answers from restaurants, retailers, and its own employees who refuse to make accommodations for people with disabilities, no real change will occur.
AASLD Honours William F. Balistreri, M.D., With Distinguished Service ...
William F. Balistreri, MD, Editor of The Journal of Pediatrics, has been honored with the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) 2007 Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his sustained commitment and contribution to the AASLD as well as to the liver disease community. He is the first pediatrician to receive this annual award.
"The AASLD was privileged to honor Dr. Balistreri with its distinguished service award in honor of his enormous scientific contributions to the diagnosis and management of children with liver diseases, his tireless advocacy for children with liver diseases, and his life-long engagement in AASLD committees and meetings, and with its governing board, including having served as its president," said Gregory Gores, MD, current president of AASLD and Reuben R.
Puget Sound: the silent crisis
The new state agency created to restore and protect Puget Sound needs your help to return a beloved, complex body of water to robust health. Puget Sound Partnership is holding an opening series of workshops in nine communities to acquaint the public with the current condition of the Sound and identify the greatest threats to it.Information collected will be used to help develop an action agenda to be presented next fall to Gov. Christine Gregoire. A fundamental challenge for David Dicks, executive director of the Partnership, is convincing Puget Sound residents there is a problem. The scenic beauty of the Sound belies deeper, persistent problems. An updated report, State of the Sound 2007, describes the current condition "to be one of decline, with continuing harms to the clean water, abundant habitat and intact natural processes that are the foundations of a healthy environment." All of us have to better understand the problem before we see our own role in helping solve what the report portrays as a "silent crisis." Restoring Puget Sound means rethinking some of how we live, work and play along its shores and near the waterways that feed into it.
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