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Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician namedFerdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. Inthose days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake,and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time hewas buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the manypeople who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man.Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard hismusic. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller familyrelic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bankvault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, inNazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second WorldWar. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who wasdeeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted andfrightened Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? And what was thefate of those refugees, holed up in the attic of Gilleleje'schurch? After Fremming's death, his d

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Escape Your Desk Sentence! Dr. James Levine, one of the country’s top specialists inobesity, says America suffers from “sitting disease.” We spendnearly ten to fifteen hours of our day sitting–in cars, at ourdesks, and in front of the television. The age of electronics andthe Internet has robbed us of the chance to burn up to 1,500 to2,000 calories per day, leaving Americans less active (and muchheavier) than we were thirty years ago. We are facing a humanenergy crisis. What you need, according to this doctor’s orders, is to getmoving, or nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). NEAT is assimple as standing, turning, and bending. Research proves thatdaily NEAT activity burns more calories than a half hour running onthe treadmill. Just by the very act of standing and moving, you canboost your metabolism, lower your blood pressure, and increase yourmental clarity. It’s about using your body as it was meant to beused. Move a Little, Lose a Lot gives you literal step-by-stepinstru

All those baby boomers who have embarked on the journey ofraising their second and third children have found themselves leftin the lurch by existing child care literature. Now child careexpert Nancy Samalin, who has earned a reputation for her forgivingand empowering approach to parenting, brings her inspiring outlookto this guide to the pitfalls and rewards of parenting two or morechildren. Parents who consider themselves pros after the first child are infor a surprise when the encounter life after the second child isborn and beyond. Suddenly their world is an exhausting haze ofcompeting demands, perpetual squabbling, sibling rivalry,complaints of unfairness and "you love him more" (and sometimes youdo), unrelenting stress, and a pervasive sense of guilt andinadequacy. Culled from her years of workshops with hundreds ofparents, Nancy Samalin shares the trials and joys of parenthood andprovides specific advice on steering your way through the parentingrapids. This is a must-read for today's harri

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