Grow your own calming cuppa (icCroydon)
Herbs can help a whole range of ailments and make a really refreshing infusion, says Jekka McVicar, a member of the Royal Horticultural Society’s fruit, vegetable and herb committee.

How Real Women Stay Beautiful (Manila Bulletin)
Are you serious?!” After years of fantasizing about the perfect proposal, this is the answer most women blurt out when finally asked for their hand in marriage. This is the same reply I gave my editor when she invited me to write a beauty column. I am no expert on beauty, far from it.

t r u t h o u t News & Politics Blog
“What are you?” Trout asked the boy scornfully. “Some kind of gutless wonder?” This, too, was the title of a book by Trout, The Gutless Wonder .

Want Minty Fresh Breath? Win This.
We all love that minty, fresh-breath feeling, but sometimes we just can’t get to the toothbrush.

One of my colleagues smells very bad. What can I do so that he doesn’t feel totally embarrassed?
Q: One of my colleagues smells very bad . All of the other people working in the office are laughing at him, but nobody tells him why.

Phew! Bad Breath
Bad breath - also known as halitosis - is one of two conditions only other people have.

US military pondered love not war
The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say.

New-school crystal ball (The Aspen Times)
One recent Monday morning I sat in my office reading a batch of particularly dreadful e-mails I received in response to a particularly controversial column I had submitted the Friday before. They contained the usual comments about my lack of…