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Purely for girls
Do you know how many chemicals and toxins you put on and in your body? One mother's quest to find pure products for young girls to use has led to her starting her own beauty companyLianne Miller is very slim, has a fabulous figure and long dark hair - frankly it's hard to believe she's 40. A long way from her native Capetown, she's married to Alex - whose family hold historic claim to having been the local Southwold funeral directors - and though they also have another house in Massachusetts, some 20 minutes outside Boston, they are based in a now much-extended house right on the edge of rural Reydon. Only at the moment their Suffolk home (which incorporates the former chapel of rest) where they've lived for much the past 14 years when Alex isn't working abroad, has now been turned over to not so much a cottage industry as a half the house industry.
Disney aiming to sell healthier food to kids
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. on Monday said it would limit fat and calories in foods bearing the faces of Mickey Mouse and friends, following a food industry trend toward healthier meals for kids. Beginning this month, kids' meals at Disney parks and resorts are being served with low-fat milk, juice or water instead of soft drinks. French fries are being replaced with apple sauce or carrots. Disney also said it has outlined new guidelines for the foods using its product licenses, and it expects most of its licensed foods to conform to the new policy by the end of 2008. The move also follows the expiration this year of a decade-long exclusive deal with Disney to promote its films with McDonald's Corp.'s fast-food kids' Happy Meals. A widening media focus on the roughly 17 percent of U.S.
Family affair / The Becks
The home: A two-story, detached, red-roofed, white stucco-covered house of 190 square meters, located on three dunams (3/4 acre). There are trimmed ficus trees in the front, mowed grass along the sidewalk, plastic chairs on the front porch and a bucket of olives on the back porch ("We picked them ourselves").
Backdating: The family moved here in 1995 (see the small photo), paying $220,000 ("Today it's worth $350,000-400,000"), taking a 20-year mortgage of $100,000 (and repaying NIS 3,000 a month).
Entering: Next to the front door, around a round area (like a Japanese garden in Kyoto) are planted 12 Singer sewing machines. This alludes to the owners' business in the past. On the ground floor there is a living room with blue sofas ("still from the first apartment") and statuettes from the East (alluding to their present business).
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