Christmas merchandise pressure in shops prompts earlier hype
A reader notes stores pipe festive music and push Christmas earlier than ever, hurting Thanksgiving sales. The piece argues a 15 percent across the board price cut could sustain healthy year round demand and reduce advertising costs, while shoppers wait for inevitable discounts. Annie and Ann Landers respond with humor and practical guidance.
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Cell phone safety tips from Heloise in Jupiter Florida
Harriet Pashman shares a dash mounted fabric tape solution to quickly grab a ringing cell phone without looking away from the road. She urges safe use and notes state laws, while advising restricted sharing of her number to emergencies only.
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Heloise
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Evista and safe weight bearing exercise guidance
Dear reader outlines Evista as a SERM with estrogenic bone benefits, cholesterol lowering effects, and no uterine stimulation, but with clot risk and no hot flash relief. Weight bearing activity helps bone strength. walking, dancing, and especially lifting weights are advised only with medical and instructor approval. local Y programs or library books suggested for guidance.
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Miriam E. Nelson
Susan Wernick
Bantam Books
Wayne L. Wescott
Mark Williams
Thomas Baechle
Human Kinetics
Across and Down Word Puzzle Nonsensical Clues
A jumble of scattered crossword style clues with numerous typos and misprints. Reads like an incomplete puzzle list with entries for places people and objects but lacks coherent clues or a solvable grid.
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