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Totally hooked by classics like “The Age of Innocence” and “The House of Mirth,” we already knew literary master Edith Wharton had substance. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Wharton nailed the hypocrisy of upper class conventionality with her scathing portraits of the turn-of-the-century New York society into which she was born as…
Five-time Olympic swimmerDara Torres made quite a splash at the Beijing Olympics this summer when, at 41, she became the oldest Olympic swimmer in history and the only one to win a medal in five Olympics. Torres won her first medal in 1984 — the year Debbie Phelps was pregnant with Torres’ future teammate, Michael….
Unable to start the day without clean hair but feeling guilty about the 2.5 gallons of water per minute it takes to get it (that’s a whopping 25 GALLONS for a leisurely shampoo, absorb, rinse and repeat), I was thrilled to find Lulu Organics Hair Powder. Meant for “days of unwash” — which is a…
Fast Fact: Some analysts estimate that since the 2003 creation of the Kimberley Process, which was designed to certify the origin of rough diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases do not fund violence, blood diamonds still comprise about 15% of the global diamond trade. Fast! Act!: Buy diamonds from registered members of StopBloodDiamonds.org, who have…