Canter Bridge

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Harley Pasternak thinks you can stay fit on 25 minutes per day and he backs up his confidence with quotes from celebrities who say he’s right. Halle Berry leading the list of enthusiasts. This reviewer thinks most of us lack the genes and the circumstances to manage that. Still, I think Pasternak’s program is a great supplement to gym-based fitness disciplines. I travel half the time and take 5-Factor Fitness on the road. This works if you stay in a hotels that have a cardio machine (stationary bike, treadmill) and a set of dumbbells and will actually go there before settling into ESPN and your in-room minibar. Perhaps G.P. Putnam’s Sons should work out a strategic alliance with the Gideons. (more…)

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Mary Hunt is a woman on a mission.

This book—best read as a follow-up to Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living—breathes with a passion and encouraging spirit that go beyond technical advice on how to live on the cheap. (more…)

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I have a colleague who travels even more than I do and proclaims his travel doctrine at every opportunity: ‘Don’t carry it if you can drag it.’

I finally caved to his advice and bought the Kensington Contour Roller based on Kensington’s good name and the attractive price. (more…)

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I tend to trust the buyers at Costco on products like this. Their judgments rarely fail, and they’ve certainly put good value for money into their warehouse store with the Uniden cordless phone. You can of course buy this phone at lots of other places too, but the Costo endorsement means something. (more…)

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