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Storm sailor
Alexander Gilly
Self-made multi-millionaire Graeme Wood is not letting a little thing like the financial crisis restrict his life's passions.
Lucky dips
Forget about room service and interior decor; the best place to spend time in any hotel is by the pool. Here are the world's best.
Yes, she can be the new fashion icon
Georgina Safe, Fashion editor
IF Cinderella thought she had issues going to the ball, they were nothing compared with the quandaries Michelle Obama faced.
Mexico City food nirvana
Stan Sesser
The best traditional and contemporary food in the world is on the street corners and upmarket restaurants of Mexico City.
Gen Y worries for future
Rebecca Huntley
Members of generation Y discuss how they feel about facing the first recession of their adult lives.
Michelle's big call
Lisa Armstrong
The dress Obama wears to her husband's presidential inauguration may one day symbolise an entire epoch.
Quick on the uptake
Japanese consumers let loose on how they really feel, behind the mask of internet weblogs.
Volvo wagon goes to town
Philip King
Volvo enters the grey are between large family wagon and full-size 4WD with the new XC60.
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Leng digs miner out of hole
IT took Jim Leng himself to do what Rio Tinto should have done in the first place.
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Council ignored fire warning
THE shire council covering some of the areas hit hardest by the bushfires was warned five years ago that it was playing with fire.
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AFL goes easy on O'hAilpin
CARLTON and Setanta O'hAilpin should be grateful they do not play in the NRL. They would have been hammered mercilessly.
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Industry in disaster management
Anthony Bergin
FOR many people around the world, the ineptitude that was displayed by the former Bush administration in its response to Hurricane...
Big-ticket items exchanged
Florence Chong
IF you ever think that barter is for rats-and-mice deals, think again.
Barter gains currency
Florence Chong
SOME 30,000 Australian small to medium-sized businesses are expected to put through at least $700 million in cashless trading this year.
The fashion 'correction'
Rachel Dodes
US Vogue editor Anna Wintour explains why "value" is in, and "too Dubai" is out.
SEC charges cricket mogul with fraud
Nico Hines
THE US securities watchdog has charged billionaire financier and cricket sponsor Allen Stanford over an alleged $US8 billion fraud.
Boy from bush's Hollywood kudos
Matthew Clayfield
CINEMATOGRAPHER Donald McAlpine doesn't like to make a big deal about how far he has come. "I think I've probably just hung in a long...
Net key to Dream appeal
Mitchell Bingemann
AUSTRALIA'S first Google-powered mobile phone goes on sale next week and it's shaping up as a capable contender to Apple's iPhone.
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EXCHANGE-TRADED funds, which offer new ways to spread investments, are catching on with fee-based financial planners.
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