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McClatchy-Tribune News Service The Southern Enterprises portable indoor fireplace features a black and copper trim with a gel fuel. Each can lasts up to three hours on a single burn ($113.98 at amazon.com).
High & Low: Portable fireplace
If you don’t have a built-in fireplace, consider a portable unit. Here are high- and low-priced options. High: The Conmoto Travelmate portable black fireplace is safe to use on hardwood floors, ...
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Associated Press When decorating spaces where dates are likely to start or end, designer Brian Patrick Flynn suggests playing with reflective surfaces and passionate hues such as fire engine red. In this condo for a bachelor, Flynn covered hallways with a glossy graphic red wallpaper, added a red chinoiserie barstool, then introduced reflective surfaces with chrome and crystal light fixtures and mercury glass mirrors.
Let your home do your wooing
Could a few changes to your living space help you land the perfect mate? Good decorating can’t guarantee happy romance, of course. But if a new date finds your home appealing, he or she is more ...
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World Briefly
From shipwreck, a treasure now beckons ROME — In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne,...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Custom men's dress shirts used to be considered an extravagance reserved for the fashion forward or the wealthy, but not any more.
More men buying dress shirts made just for them
Custom-made men’s dress shirts were once considered the privileged peacockery of the moneyed set — a dash of sartorial swagger that could be afforded only by Hollywood A-listers, Wall Street banker...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Rachel Brooks sits at her grandmother's home on Jan. 19 in Plano, Texas. She is a senior at Liberty High School in Frisco and is going to the University of Missouri, majoring in journalism.
The old college try is getting more cutthroat
Scoring perfect SATs, landing class valedictorian and mastering the violin don’t cut it anymore. Now it’s about priming resumes in middle school, turning science projects into patented invention...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Annie Beurman, 14, of Olathe, Kansas, punches a bag during Fight Club at Title Boxing in Prairie Village, Kansas, January 15, 2012. Fight Club is a new anti-bullying program for the Kansas City area that teaches kids how to become stronger physically and mentally when standing up to bullies.
Boxing classes help bullied teens build self-esteem
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first jabs landed politely, like the boxing students were tapping the punching bags on the shoulders instead of pummeling them. Then, the music started blasting — hard, dr...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Customers text on their cell phones while dining at M.B. Post restaurant on Jan. 20 in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Jerry Garbus, general manager of M.B. Post, says cell phones can provide a useful way of connecting with others while dining.
Table text: Diners can't do without their smartphones, so restaurants are (mostly) tapping into the spirit
Ding. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That’s the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cellphones once posed a nuisance as people chatted loudly into them during meals, smartphones now present a...
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Woman gives birth in car after traffic stop
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman’s speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn’t enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car. Donna Richmond got pulled over on Tuesday mo...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Ed Valencia, of Soquel, pots a bonsai tree during the monthly meeting of the Bonsai Kai Club at the Live Oak Grange Hall in Califonia.
Bonsai aficionados never stop learning
LIVE OAK, Calif. — For Vietnam veteran Pete Logan, practicing the art of bonsai has been therapeutic, helping him deal with some of the problems of his post-traumatic stress disorder. Logan, who...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service A marker inscribed 'My Forever Pet' appears in the new pet burial area at the Standing Rock Cemetery on Jan. 25 in Kent, Ohio.
Plots open for pets
KENT, Ohio — Families have been known to skirt cemetery rules in trying to reunite Fido or Patches with their owners, slipping a tiny tub of ashes into a casket or sprinkling their remains at a gra...
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