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POPSWhere Print Prevails Asian and Latin American markets are primed for old media growth, according to the NYT, thanks to rising literacy rates and growing income.
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POPSWhen Is Thin "Trop" Thin? That's what members of the French Fashion Federation, the National Union of Modeling Agencies, and the French Advertising Standards Authority will be deciding in the future. They met last week to draw up guidelines to promote "body diversity" without enacting any new laws to do so.
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POPSIn the "ayiyiyi" category.... "In the lawsuit, Mr. Selbin, a litigator who honed his skills going after major corporations, charged that Ms. Huff’s constant smoking made the hallway of their apartment building, the Ansonia, smell like a casino. The couple had also accused Ms. Huff, the owner of Caffe La Fenice, an Italian restaurant, of encouraging her Chihuahua to urinate on their son’s stroller in retaliation for their complaints about her smoking." Enough said.
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POPSGood Advice I'm pinning this piece to my bulletin board. Good stuff for both genders to keep on mind.
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POPSSecond-Home Snafus For those lucky enough (or crazy enough) to be buying a second-home today, tips from the NYT for a smooth sale.
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POPSMoving Pains Foreclosures are rising, and so, it seems, are the number of would-be home sellers eager to move but stuck with a home they can't unload.
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POPSR.I.P Newspapers? In-depth look at how website editors are harnessing technology to amass readers -- and what that print editors can learn from them.
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POPSQuiz Time Log on to apartmenttherapy.com to play their "Guess the Decade" game. Check out photos of long-gone home decor looks and cast your vote.
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POPSMotoko on Meg Intereresting take on Meg Wolitzer and her latest novel in which upper-middle class moms examine how their lives have changed since they gave up their jobs and had kids.
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POPSAre You In Shape? Forget treadmills, free weights and kettleballs. All you need to do to gauge your level of fitness, says Tara Parker-Pope of the NYT, are a few pushups.
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POPSHeart-Warming Home Design The NYT has a sweet story about a Manhattan couple taking on the renovation of a former cancer hospital while tackling the disease themselves.
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POPSCottage Living Behind the scenes at the renovation of a 100-year-old cottage in the South of France, courtesy of the New York Times.
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POPSExercise Prevents...Wrinkes? Well, not really, but it does help keep us nimble in old age. That's the finding of a University of Pittsburgh professor, a 40-year-old runner, who looked at people who trained as they got older or started an exercise regimen in middle age. Her research, the New York Times reports, finds that those people deteriorated, but less than they might have if sedentary.
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POPSSomething To Chew On Stores are increasingly selling "chewable ice" either to add to drinks or to snack on alone. Ice chewers even have websites on which they post tips for making the perfect cube. Apparently 2% of US males and 16% of US females (!!!) are compulsive ice chewers. Read on for more funny facts.
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POPSWine Wars Online shopping is fun -- except if you are a oenophile. Here is the NYT's take on the tricky business behind buying and shipping wine over the Internet.
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POPSFab Fondue No better way, me thinks, to beat the chill than with a hot pot of fondue. The New York Times has an easy recipe--no special pot required!
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POPSFrosty Fitness NYT readers offer advice for keeping warm while working out in colder climes.
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POPSInside Awesome Abodes Apartmenttherapy.com has a running list of "house tours" in which users from around the world post photos of their sweet spaces. This tour of a chic flat in Paris makes me want to move there. Of course the great cheese, culture, wine and warm baguettes don't hurt.
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POPSFood Stuff I'm super organized -- except when it comes to my fridge. Maybe it's because the door is closed, but I have a hard time keeping track of what needs to be thrown out and when. That's why I am printing this story from Real Simple. It lists which items -- from beer to windex -- to keep and which to ditch depending on the time each has spent in your home.
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POPSMaster Mixes Read this New York Times piece on how tunes influence exercise and you'll know why your gym plays the music it does.
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POPSIntro To Fast Food Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times reports on an interesting study examining the proximity of fast food outlets to 31,000 of the nation's middle and high schools. In it, she reports that "two-thirds of urban secondary schools had at least one fast-food restaurant within walking distance, and more than half had a convenience store within a half-mile." Kind of makes it hard for districts to slim down their student bodies.
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POPSJust Punishment? This teen's mom sold his car when she found booze under the front seat....by putting an ad explaining the situation in the city paper. Talk about tough love!
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