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Books How to Live By Henry Alford (Twelve Books) I am averse to advice books. Don’t tell me How to Live — that’s why I have an autonomic nervous system! But Henry...

How Andie MacDowell Stays Awake and Aware

Few would disagree that actress, model and mom Andie MacDowell has a great life. The star of the new Spiritual Cinema Circle feature film “Tara Road,” she’s starred...

Filmmaker Patrick Creadon Makes It All Add Up in I.O.U.S.A.

You don’t like balancing your checkbook; neither does Uncle Sam. In the number-crunching, nail-biting new documentary I.O.U.S.A., director Patrick Creadon tries to account for...

Towelhead

Invest a little time and effort and you can come up with far better reasons to dislike people than just the color of their skin or their country of origin. Hate them, for example, for...

The Business of Being Born

While some 70 percent of lads and lasses in other developed nations take their first breath in the home, attended to by a midwife, some 99 percent of Americans are born in hospitals,...