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		<title>Make-up with Dustin Lujan &#8211; Keeping Your Brushes for a Lifetime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main questions I get after all the glitz and glamour of achieving a beautiful look is, &#8220;How do I wash my makeup brushes?&#8221; I have heard that people use baby shampoo, hand soap, dish washing liquid, dip them into rubbing alcohol or peroxide, or use the cleanser that the brand sells. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nights with the Florida Panthers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY STEVE WINSTON In a world of unpredictability, there’s always been something comforting about the Florida Panthers, our National Hockey League team. For example, over the past decade, they’ve been the most consistent team in the league – at missing the playoffs (they’ve missed it ten consecutive seasons – an NHL record). Without a doubt, they’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul and the Bard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY DICK METHIA Ron Paul lost the Maine Republican primary to Mitt Romney by a squeaker, just a couple of hundred votes. Exit interviews with voters in Maine and elsewhere indicate that voters like the Texan’s libertarian views. They just don’t think he sounds presidential. Paul’s advisors are now urging the retired country doctor to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single? Enjoy A Girlfriend Getaway This Valentine&#8217;s Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY KITT WALSH According to blogger Tom Blake on his website Finding Love After 50, (www.findingloveafter50.com/harvard_husband.html) between the ages of 50-69 there are 1.7 single women for every single man. If you are seeking a husband, that statistic may make you feel like fastening a noose—but, as it turns out, you are in the minority. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College for Older Adults</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY GAYLE THOMPSON There was a time when college, and higher education in general, was almost exclusively reserved for young adults fresh out of high school, who were still figuring out what career path they wanted to follow. Back then, anyone over the age of 25 or 30 who was sitting in a college classroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boosters, Backers &amp; Bunnies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY DICK METHIA Mitt Romney squeezed all the oranges out of the Florida Republican primary and then ran the table in Nevada. The two states gave Romney a huge boost in his slog to the Republican presidential nomination. Mitt Romney looked like Goliath. Then voters in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri cast their lot big time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Move over 50, 30 is here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL “Actress Stone and others like her,” read 1 Across of the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. As I put my pen down on the first box to write the letter “S”, I realized that my answer &#8212; so obviously the plural of “Sharon” &#8212; would not fit. I sat for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable Vacationing: Try a Home Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY KITT WALSH When she felt overworked, my mother used to talk about wanting to run away and join the circus. Jut lock the front door and don&#8217;t look back—headed for somewhere exotic. Today we have such a solution: Home-Swapping &#8230; just the thing for the “I-hate-my-life” blues. Step into someone else&#8217;s shoes and enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Campaign Trail: Sore Loser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dick Methia I attended a parochial grammar school. They called it that because the teachers actually taught grammar then. My favorite teacher was Sister Lillian, a beautiful, smart woman who could have been a corporate executive today.  One of Sister’s key lessons was how to be a good sport. Along with subjects, verbs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Travel with Me: My Spa Days, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY MARY JANE HORTON Several years ago, my stays at two spas came at the perfect time. I had just finished my physical therapy after a freak accident – a woman who had a stroke behind the wheel hit me with her car when I was on my morning walk – and I was ready [...]]]></description>
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