CVS Pharmacy, the ubiquitous drug store, is planning an assault on upscale beauty retailers. Beauty 360 is the name of the planned stores that CVS will start opening by year’s end, according to a story Friday at WWD.com. 
Sources quoted in the story said the first two stores will open in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, will be [...]

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It starts simply enough. The kids are going back to school, and you know they’re going to lose their pencils and lunchbags and backpacks, so you put labels on the stuff. Personalized labels look slick, and Web sites like Identikid and Identity Direct offer all kinds: vinyl, iron-on, labels for shoes, pencils, backpacks, markers. You can buy [...]

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You may have printed out your share of recipes from FoodTV.com, but you probably still treasure the recipes from your mother or mother-in-law, handwritten on pieces of paper and given to you many years ago.
All good cooks should own a recipe box, filled with recipe cards for favorite family dishes.
At Fine Stationery, the “Funky Chickens” recipe box ($18) [...]

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For every Olympic games, there are Olympic pins.
For collectors, the buying, trading and selling of them is  as competitive a sport as any beach volleyball game, and it’s been going on since 1896. The pin trade, an obsession for some, is labeled the “unofficial Olympic sport.” 
In Beijing, pin sellers have set up shop at the Olympic Expo in [...]

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If your decorative style leans toward the outlandish, or eye-catching or just odd, you haven’t completed your bedroom without some statement-making pillowcases. Enough with this “spa-like, soothing, Zen haven” kind of look, all pale and delicate and serene and boring. S
care someone with a pair of eyes looking back at them, on your black and white [...]

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Gardens are magical places. Sit in one long enough and you€™ll see nature at work, in the form of birds, bugs, reptiles and rodents, not to mention your pets and the neighbor€™s pets.
 But there€™s another kind of critter that enhances any garden, one that€™s always there when you want it. Consider the life-size English hare [...]

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There’s a lot of grumbling out there about the Apple 3G iPhone that came out in July. It seems that calls are dropping, like rocks. They’re blaming it on a German-made chip in the phone, and Apple is promising a software fix will be on iTunes soon.
On top of the irritation at lost connectivity, Apple [...]

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