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Win a Copy of Letters to a Young Poet
International luxury lifestyle designer Allegra Hicks’ favorite book is Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Dover Publicatio ...

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Jennifer Beals' Workout
For 10 years, Rich Guzman has trained actor Jennifer Beals, whose workout is featured in the November/December 2008 issue of VIVmag. Beals is o ...

Recipes

Parmesan and Rosemary “Fried” Chicken
Baked potato chips are the secret to this chicken’s crispy coating. Instead of going into a vat of fat, this bird cooks in the oven.

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August 2008 Archive

learningtosee

As featured in VIVmag’s July/August issue, shoe designer Claudia Ciuti’s favorite book is Learning to See: Bringing the World Around You Into Your Home by Vicente Wolf (Artisan, 2002). This beautiful book offers great advice for decorating your personal space from…

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omron

As featured in the July/August issue of VIVmag, the Omron Pocket HJ-720ITC Pedometer not only counts overall steps, but also tracks the number of steps you take per minute — meaning that it registers aerobic steps separately. So if you go…

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undiscovered-sqweepstakes

Breakthroughs can come when you least expect it. In VIVmag’s July/August issue, actor Debra Winger shares how she found deep meaning in a surprising place in an excerpt from Undiscovered (Simon & Schuster, 2008), a portrait of her life in Hollywood,…

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when-good-people-have-affairs

According to Mira Kirshenbaum, clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Boston and author of When Good People Have Affairs: Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships (St. Martin’s Press, 2008), research indicates 47 percent of…

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the-carbon-free-home-contest

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008) by Stephen and Rebekah Hren is a terrific guide for making changes to your home that will reduce your energy consumption on any budget. Fight…

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find-your-inner-beauty

Instructional beauty guides are a dime a dozen these days, so when the new, inspirational Things a Woman Should Know About Beauty (Prion, 2008) by Karen Homer came across our desk, we took notice. This witty handbook offers beauty advice from…

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exfoliabufferkit

Proper exfoliation is essential to ensure an even summer glow, be it au naturel or simply from a bottle. One of our favorite new products, the Exfolia Buffer Kit, contains high-tech fibers that polish skin to an ultra smooth finish…

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