Resolutions are only successful if they are achievable and the ... From Thanh Nien Daily New Year s Eve is often a time for reflection, for looking back over the past year, noting achievements and failures. Health may figure highly in New Year s resolutions purely for timing reasons, with New Year coming hard on the heels of Christmas overindulgence. An Australian online survey found the top ten New Year s resolutions for 2008 were to: spend time with family, fit in fitness, tame the bulge, quit smoking, enjoy life more, get out of debt, learn something new, help others, and get...

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Martial Arts Teacher Promotes Peace From Tampa Tribune Cobo is at ease sitting cross-legged on the mat floor of his spotless new aikido dojo at 119 N. Cobo, chief instructor at his aikido training school, aims to lead others into harmony through discipline, respect, tradition, compassion, patience and loyalty. "Aikido is a different martial art in that it is a nonaggressive, circular form of self-defense," Cobo said. Aikido has a dual purpose, Cobo said. Cobo's family moved to New Jersey in 1961, when his parents were forced to flee Cuba. Cobo...

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Huckabee feints, or does he pull his punches? From Guardian Unlimited I arrived at a crowded presser for Mike Huckabee today at a downtown Des Moines hotel and saw several placards at the front of the room attacking Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts. The clip in question was a 30-second spot in which Huckabee addressed the camera and denounced Romney's attacks on himself and John McCain. The ad also points out that Huckabee in 2005 backed a failed plan to give illegal aliens in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities. In recent...

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Changing subjects From Globe and Mail I think we're all special, but in the realm of human beings, I'm not trying to make you think I'm precious or anything." I figure there's a book on the subject of this column, now seven years in the running and populated with more than 350 people. Just when you're feeling that life is routine, bourgeois or too Tim Hortonish (hey, it's hard to find stimulation sometimes), along comes an interview subject who gives you a fix of the deeply weird. He turned to look at me for the first time, then...

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Environmental Therapies - Clinical Ecology From American Chronicle Licensed in Washington and more than 30 other states, acupuncturists work as independent providers of health care for a range of conditions from pain management to women's health problems. Clinical ecologists believe that foods are still the most common environmental factors causing illness. They identify the particular foods or chemicals to which an individual is sensitive and advise on treatment. The simplest treatment is to avoidu the foods and chemicals that cause problems....

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