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  Smart Fitness — By Jacqueline Stenson
Capri pants bare scourge of summer: ‘cankles’
Still obsessing about how your dimpled thighs, jelly belly or flappy arms look in a swimsuit? That’s so last summer. This year, there’s a new body part to fret over: the cankle.

  Sexploration — By Brian Alexander
Marriage thrives despite our evolving sex lives
  It may have worked as a plotline for “Sex and the City,” but according to new  government figures, very few American women need fear being an “old maid.” 

  Second Opinion — By Robert Bazell
Dispute behind Nobel Prize for HIV research
The announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine brings another chapter, perhaps the concluding one, to one of the ugliest controversies in modern medical science.

  Breaking Bioethics — By Arthur Caplan
Opinion: Top doc post is a big job for a big lady
  Amid the fat-bashing tirades resides a point worth addressing: “How can Dr. Benjamin promote healthy eating if she herself is obese?”

  Nutrition Notes — By Karen Collins
When it’s OK to eat full-fat foods
A popular weight-loss solution: Choosing reduced-fat or fat-free forms of the same foods. But these lower-fat options aren’t always lower in calories, particularly when they are consumed in jumbo portions.

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  Growing Up Healthy — By Victoria Clayton
What to get the kids? Think outside the toy box
You can find safe toys for the kids to open up under the tree, experts say, but keep in mind that not all good things come from the toy box.

  Creature Comforts — By Kim Thornton
No-kill shelter nation? Maybe in 5 years
Many cities, animal control agencies and private shelters in the U.S. are forming alliances that they hope will lead to a no-kill nation in half a decade.

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