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By Zoe Mendelson, 25, reporting from Mexico City on a healthy, smart new way to shop for beauty products
If you’re not into putting potentially harmful things in your body, you might be interested in #TruthBeauty.
I know, I know. Beauty products don’t go in your body, they go on your body. But skin is an organ (our largest organ, in ...
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This is the first hot summer 2015 suggestion in a RED Hearts series of seasonal recipes – things you can cook or bake, usually healthy things, always easy things – for the people you heart! Served up by Erika Kwee, 24, “the baker, photographer and typo-maker” behind vegetarian food blog The Pancake Princess.
There aren’t many things ...
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By Jordyn Turney, 25, reporting from Boise, Idaho, on a hilarious, heartfelt, must-listen podcast
My latest obsession is a podcast called Gilmore Guys, which is exactly what it sounds like: two guys watching, discussing and reviewing every episode of the early 00s WB show Gilmore Girls. Your obsessive hosts are Kevin, a longtime Gilly (you ...
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By Jordyn Turney, 25, reporting from Boise, Idaho, on the wait-no-more books of the season
Summer is here! To me the season always means bonus reading time, loaded with new releases and an ever-growing number of books I must have.
It’s like they’re perishable; it’s that immediate.
Here are three right at the top of my list: ...
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By Zulay Regalado, 26, reporting from Miami on an inspiring new book about the power of the pen (pal)
I Will Always Write Back is a beautiful, sometimes tragic, moving and inspiring new book, the true story of a friendship across continents that turned into something greater than expected.
In 1997, when Caitlin Alifrenka chose Zimbabwe ...
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By Dani Cox, 20, reporting from Miami on the joys of animal rescue—for pets and people.
Thinking of eventually adding a furry new friend to the family? Planning on having a pet at sometime in your future? I would venture to say you nodded. Or at least acknowledged that it’s a happy prospect. So why not start to make it happen today, which ...
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By Lisa Chau, 26, reporting from Pompano Beach, FL, on an organizational system that really works
I am obsessed with making lists. I make all sorts of them, from daily to-do’s to my top five spirit animals (sloth, penguin, cat, otter, and sea cucumber, in case you’re wondering).But lists can get out of hand pretty quickly. I used to be ...
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By Eliza Appleton, 24, reporting from NYC on how this year's college basketball turned her pro-sports heart
I am a professional sports guru. The kind of girl who makes a guy’s jaw drop when we’re watching the Patriots in the same room. The kind of girl who can beat almost anyone in Red Sox trivia, who can name all the Bruins players, ...
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By Carey Dunne, 25, reporting from Brooklyn, NY, on an extraordinary book that honors the heroic women of northern Uganda
The girl soldiers who grew up forced to fight by the Lord's Resistance Army in the Ugandan civil war have rarely been safe or supported to talk about that harrowing part of their lives, even as adults. Enduring the ...
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By Zoe Mendelson, 24, reporting from Mexico City on the most welcome introduction of diversity to the emoji population
They have arrived!!! Gone of are the days of few emoji people-of-color-other-than-yellow (or wearing a turban)! Emoji of varied skin tones are here!
Apple’s new operating system, released last week, includes the more ...