| Look Before you Leap: Fighting Fraud by Making Informed Purchases
It seems to happen about the same time each day around 7:00 pm. I get a knock on my door and I am disappointed to see that the person standing there is not Cindy Crawford or Heidi Klum, but yet another annoying salesperson. Magazine subscriptions, candy, arts and crafts, whatever they are selling, I am usually buying. Thankfully, my purchases from door-to-door sales people don't cost me too much. Others, however, are not as lucky as more and more people are becoming victims of door-to-door sales fraud from purchasing products and services that are illegal, will never be delivered or are incomplete. Therefore, before you make a major purchase, it is smart to get the facts on a business from a completely honest, unbiased and invaluable source of information: the online business search. .
Editorial: Stick figures
A backlash against hyper-skinny fashion models has set in, or we're informed, not being terribly familiar with the world of haute couture or any other couture for that matter. And we are also assured by certain quarters that this is altogether a laudable development and pretty much a victory for women everywhere. Up until the mid 1980s, the fashion writers say, the models who strode the runways, like Cindy Crawford, while on the slim side, were visibly and indisputably women, curves and that sort of thing. And then came the Kate Moss era. The stick-like Moss, often described as "waiflike," set off a race by fashion designers for thinner and thinner models. The new look was gaunt, emaciated, glassy-eyed models, often from Eastern Europe, who exuded - if their skeletal figures can be said to exude - a kind of famine chic.
Hannah House Offers Refuge
FORT SMITH -- Not every teenage or 20-something woman who becomes pregnant cares to live in a chaperoned residence, study the Bible every day or consider an abstinent lifestyle -- but for those who do, Hannah House might be an "awesome" solution, as one employee and former resident describes it.Hannah House, a nonprofit Christian ministry that offers a refuge for young women in crisis, has housed 121 such clients opening in 1997.Residents stay an average of six months, usually leaving soon after giving birth, but some receive transitional living assistance as well, said Cindy Crawford, Hannah House CEO.About 35 percent of the residents have been referred from out of state, and about 10 percent choose to give their babies up for adoption, Crawford said. Applicants go through a two-part interview to ensure that they are willing to make a lifestyle change and to live in the interdenominational Christian environment provided.Applicants are not required to become Christian, but lifestyle change is mandatory, she said."When a girl comes in here pregnant, she needs a lifestyle change," Crawford said.
Cindy’s sense of style
“Working with Cindy is really a collaboration," Seaman said. “It's not like when you have just a celebrity sponsor name on things. She really participates." When Crawford began working with designers on her collections, she invited them to her Malibu home to see how she lives, what type of pieces she likes and what textiles she favors. Her role is to inspire the designers, choose ideas she likes and ultimately approve materials, pieces and concepts. She also works on marketing and promotions, like her visit to Naples. .
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