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Take Your Water Bottle With You When You Leave Your Car

By James B. LaValle | 05/27/2008

You know that water bottle you carry with you everywhere? Or the bottles you use to feed your baby? If they’re plastic, they could be making you or your baby very sick. Fortunately, there’s one easy step you can take to protect yourself and your loved ones from the “toxic” effects of plastic.

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Living Rich: Drawing on Your Inner Resources

By Judith Strauss | 05/27/2008

Being totally self-reliant, able to fend for yourself – it’s an appealing idea, one that’s been romanticized in literature and the movies.

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Re-Entering the Workforce

By Jason Holland | 05/26/2008

Finding a new job after being out of the workforce for an extended period of time can be tough. Maybe you left work to raise your kids. Or took a few months to care for a sick family member. Or had to quit your job because of an illness of your own. Whatever the reason, you probably want to know what you can do to improve your chances of getting hired again.

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How to Be on Top of Everything

By Mark Morgan Ford | 05/26/2008

Since January, I’ve been writing a series of essays in ETR intended to give you tools to help you “master plan” your life. As you put this master plan into action, you will find that you will be able to accomplish more than you ever have before. Much more.

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The Perfect Gift for Your Graduate

By Suzanne Richardson | 05/26/2008

When my little brother graduated from high school, I gave him a copy of Michael Masterson’s best-selling book Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out. It turned out to be a book he’s read a dozen times. One reason: It’s packed full of strategies for building wealth from the bottom up.

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Taking All the Right Supplements, but Still in Pain

By James B. LaValle | 05/26/2008

You may have heard that glucosamine HCL and chondroitin can help rebuild damaged cartilage in your joints. But what if you’re taking supplements to relieve your aching joints, and you just aren’t feeling better?

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Lower the Bar

By Noah St. John | 05/24/2008

To succeed in business and your personal life, you often hear that you need to be more competitive – that you need to keep “raising the bar.” But is that really necessary… or even a good idea?

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The Best Bread for a Healthy Diet

By Mark Morgan Ford | 05/24/2008

When you’re trying to get healthy, fiber is a super-substance that you can’t get enough of. That’s why I try to include 100 grams or more of fiber in my daily diet.

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7 Sizzling Business “Discoveries” From Stanford’s Facebook Project

By Charlie Byrne | 05/23/2008

Combing back through the longstanding principles you’ve come to know and love by reading ETR and Michael Masterson’s new blockbuster book, Ready, Fire, Aim, I found at least seven “power principles” with fascinating parallels to the Stanford project.

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Vending Business

The Truth About the Vending Business

By Paul Lawrence | 05/23/2008

So one of the first “insider secrets” I learned about the vending business is that your written agreement with the distributor must describe the kind of locations you will be getting.

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2 Eggs or a Pop Tart?

By James B. LaValle | 05/23/2008

An egg has approximately 200 mg of cholesterol, and frying or scrambling it can up the cholesterol to approximately 245 mg. According to Kellogg’s, a Blueberry Pop Tart contains no cholesterol, but it does have 39.8 g of carbohydrates – almost half of them from pure sugar. So which is a healthier breakfast – an egg or a Pop Tart?

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Why Most Expensive Stocks Are Rip-Offs

By Andrew Gordon | 05/22/2008

Many investors swear by the “efficient market theory.” All it means is that through the magic of millions of investors buying and selling stock every day, you get what you pay for. If a company is cheap, it’s cheap for a reason. If it’s expensive, it’s expensive for a reason.

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