O, The Oprah Magazine articles from April 2005

O, The Oprah Magazine archives from April 2005

We hear you! Readers relate to Jean Morgan's mapless marriage and Lisa Kogan's list of ways to really irritate a single woman, applaud Oprah's boot camp, are stunned at the courage of Congolese women, and more....(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... While reading the February issue, I checked the cover twice to make sure I wasn't mistaken about the month. Instead of codifying love like most women's magazines, O presented it in all its glory and grit. As a single woman of 39, I particularly...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2005... Correction: Our March 2005 cover was photographed by Fabrizio Ferri, who has shot many of O's best-selling covers. We regret the error, with apologies to Fabrizio and his team. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Are we feeling good yet?(here we go)(issue contents)(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... WHY SHOULD January have all the jump starts? We've decided that April's a great time for a fresh beginning, which is why you might call this our New Day's Resolutions issue. Forget years--when it comes to your health, you've got to think...

Be healthy!
April 1, 2005... APRIL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I nourish myself." --WALLACE STEVENS [TABLE OMITTED] "One of the final challenges for human beings is to get old with as much verve and gumption as possible." --ALISON JUDSON RYERSON ...

Dr. Phil: to your husband's health (and your happiness); His eating habits aren't pretty, his workout consists of starting the car in the morning, and the only doctor he sees regularly is on ER. Phillip C. McGraw, PhD, offers his prescription for getting the man in your life to take his health seriously.(tell it like it is)
April 1, 2005... YOU TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. You do your best to eat healthy, exercise a few times a week, and get regular checkups with your doctor. It's not always easy or fun, but it's a no-brainer. So why is it so difficult to get your husband to do the...

Suze Orman: "you have the strength to build a better life"; Making a fresh financial start at 55 ... spreading your money too thin ... and cutting through the confusion of college funds.(financial freedom)
April 1, 2005... Q I'm starting over at age 55. Although I've been working since I was 18, I have no savings, no investments, and no money for retirement except Social Security. My only insurance is that which my employer provides. Fortunately, I still have a...

Live your best life.(meditation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a...

Alfre Woodard's aha! Moment: a faraway movie shoot brought the actress up close and personal with her own beauty myth.(LYBL)(Live your best life)
April 1, 2005... WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN TULSA, the kids called me bubble lips and frog eyes. My mama always said, "Oh, you're such a pretty girl," and I believed I was, thanks to her encouragement. Still, this was before the "black is beautiful" era of the...

Pajama game.(WHAT A CONCEPT!)(Charity)(Pajama Program)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As a child, Genevieve Piturro relished bedtime: "My mother would say, 'Okay, pajamas on.' We kids would be laughing, and she'd start to read stories. I thought everybody lived that way." So years later, as a volunteer at children's...

Rated PG-35: love among grown-ups and second chances stir up two provocative new movies.(MOVIES)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... ONE UNFORTUNATE SIDE EFFECT of our culture's youth obsession is that the grown-up movie romance has gone on life support. So when one comes along as good as The Upside of Anger, directed with surprising feeling by Mind of the Married Man's Mike...

Out of the shadows: artist Kara Walker is honored with a room of her own.(ART)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ten years ago, Kara Walker called one of her first solo exhibitions Look Away! Look Away! Look Away! Fortunately, the art world and fans have done the opposite. The 35-year-old has since shown her provocative work--much of which employs black...

Western exposures: shooting elk, bison, eagles against purple mountain majesties--a luxurious photography safari in Jackson Hole.(TRAVEL)(workshop)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... IF YOU'VE ever flipped through a National Geographic and imagined yourself photographing Patagonian icebergs or portraits of Masai warriors, now you can get one step closer to your daydream. This spring Rich Clarkson, former director of...

Eat, drink, and be all ears.(RECIPE)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Anyone who likes her chicken-fried steak with a side of celebrity gossip should check out Dishing (Simon & Schuster), nationally syndicated columnist Liz Smith's new book, about the moments during her long career when the food was as...

What's playing in Angela Brown's ear? From Broadway to opera to seventies pop, the overnight soprano sensation likes female voices that soar, thunder, tear the roof off the place, and kill, softly.(MUSIC)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Sometimes talent coincides with luck in the most unbelievable way--just ask 41-year-old opera singer Angela Brown. The soprano's long-simmering career came to a boil when a colleague at New York's Metropolitan Opera fell ill last fall in the...

Moving on the edge.(DANCE)(Trisha Brown Dance Company)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In 1960, 23-year-old Trisha Brown left her hometown of Aberdeen, Washington, to dance in New York City. But after ten years, the performer--who studied with the legendary Merce Cunningham--founded her own experimental group, one that aspired to...

The O list.(Oprah 's advice about products)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... "A few things I think are just great."--OPRAH This Bud's for You "If this ceramic daylily doesn't make you want to throw a garden party, I don't know what will." ($85, Mustardseed & Moonshine cup and saucer, available through Manor...

The season of the skirt: longer, fuller, and just plain easier to wear, spring's new skirts are made to move--and they skim right over hip issues. Style prescriptions for six women from O's spin doctors.(fashion)
April 1, 2005... It's sexier to wear a skirt that swings freely than to be hobbled by something tight. The bold, color-blocked swirl on Michelle Wu, mother of two, is equal parts Mondrian abstract and nautical pennant (H. Hilfiger, $195). Add a fresh white...

First signs of spring; Here's what O knows about this season's gear: it's high in fiber (chic raffia bags and shoes) and certifiably dotty.(KEY PIECE)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... STRAW VOTE Some people think raffia is strictly for hobbyists, wicker means furniture, and straw belongs on the beach. Surprise: With leather or crocodile trim and floral embellishments, these chic weaves are ready to wear anywhere....

Something to think about.
April 1, 2005... Spring's here, the trees and flowers are in bloom, and we're ready to shake off winter torpor (and possibly those extra pounds). It's a good time to tone up body, mind, and spirit. Where to begin? Grab a pencil and consider the following: ...

Uncle Sam wants you ... to exercise.(body wise)
April 1, 2005... When the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the USDA issued their new dietary and health guidelines in January, experts on weight management felt simultaneous jolts of elation and dismay--elation that the new guidelines pushed...

Workout attire that makes you work.(body wise)(WalkVest)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... If you want to shift your morning walks into high gear, look no further than the WalkVest, a canvas vest with pockets that hold up to 32 half-pound weights ($80; walkvest.com). Invented by Debbie Rocker, one of the brains behind the Spinning...

Brain drain.(body wise)(nocturnal torture of sleep apnea and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... THE NOCTURNAL TORTURE OF SLEEP APNEA, WHICH can wake victims hundreds of times each night, may bring on more than fatigue: New research suggests that it can also cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, also called ADD). Apnea most...

The way to eat: so little fat (but so much sodium and sugar!) ... my sister the soft drink addict ... and is gastric bypass surgery safe? David L. Katz, MD, gives you the nutritional heads-up.(body wise)
April 1, 2005... Q My 40-year-old sister is addicted to soft drinks. For about ten years, she has been drinking 12 cans a day. She's overweight and has high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and possibly diabetes. She says she's willing to work with me, so what's...

The trouble with takeout: pizza! Burritos! Buffalo wings! General Tso's chicken! They're delicious, convenient ... as well as incredibly calorific. And don't even get us started on the fat content. Seriously, before you dial out for dinner, look at the numbers here--a few small changes can deliver a big health difference. Naomi Barr reports.(WEIGHT)
April 1, 2005... SOME NIGHTS, JUST POPPING OPEN A CARTON OF fried rice takes all the strength you can muster. Your fork is about to enter--make that dive into--a nutritional hazmat zone (grease, carbs, calories, guilt... danger!), but you're way too tired and...

The minority report; It's a code blue emergency: blacks and Hispanics receive sloppy, half-hearted medical treatment compared with whites, according to a scandalous, widely circulated study. Liz Brody tells why waking up, getting engaged, and speaking out are the keys to fighting back.(body wise)(Column)
April 1, 2005... A CAVITY OVERLOOKED: PAINFUL. A cancer missed: deadly. Thousands of diseases undetected until it's too late: a national problem. And that's what we've got. In the United States now, healthcare is color-coded. If you're black or Hispanic,...

Simply delicious: inspired by Fiber One[R] Honey Clusters[R] cereal.(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
April 1, 2005... Breakfast is the perfect time to get started on your fiber intake, but you've always hated sacrificing great taste for a healthy meal. Now you don't have to. With the help of Fiber One[R] Honey Clusters[R], gone are the days of the boring...

Tuna on rye--hold the mercury, please: nutritionally, fish may seem like your friend. But the mercury in many fish can cause everything from miscarriage and heart problems in adults to mental retardation in babies. Actress Daphne Zuniga, who was lucky enough to get early treatment, spotlights a growing threat.(body wise)
April 1, 2005... I'M ONE OF THE MOST HEALTH-CONSCIOUS people I know. I do yoga, meditate, hike, run. I love health food, and it doesn't bother me that my friends don't call me for late martini nights. (I promise I'm more fun than I sound.) I don't eat meat, so...

Self-diagnosis 101: is that chest pain heartburn--or a heart attack? Does your headache warrant a trip to the ER or an aspirin and maybe a nap? Harvard Medical School's guide to four common, could-be-anything symptoms.(body wise)(Emergency Room)
April 1, 2005... WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE WHO THINK BRAIN TUMOR at the first sign of a headache. But knowing when it's actually appropriate to call a doctor, or maybe rush to the hospital, can be doubly useful: It lets worriers rest easy and prods those with serious...

Testing, testing, at every age: which medical exams do you need at 20? At 50? Save these checklists as timely reminders to be extremely good to yourself.(O to go)(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... THE BASICS * Annual physical: Your doctor should check your blood pressure, height, and weight. (At minimum, see your GP every other year.) * Hearing: You should have it tested at age 18, then every ten years until your 50s; after...

Look what we found! A pour of polishes, the coolest brow tools, a ravishing bouquet of new spring fragrances, and more. Here's what O's beauty editors--Valerie Monroe and Jolene Edgar--fell in love with this month.(beauty)(cosmetics)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... If summer is citron, fall is ocher, and winter is slate, then what is spring? If you said "pink," we're happy to tell you that you think like a beauty editor. And to reward you for your sparkling intuition, we've picked the prettiest of the...

Stop and smell the roses, violets, frangipani.... If you're the sort of person who can't pass a bouquet without burying your nose in it, you're going to like what's waiting for you at the perfume counters this spring. O's garden tour starts here.(beauty)(Perfumes)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... GREEN If you love... the warm scent of iris, the smell of grass after a rain shower, invest in Acqua di Parma Iris Nobile (3.4 ounces, $118)--a deliciously feminine departure from the brand's signature unisex scents. [ILLUSTRATION...

Ask Val: O's beauty director, Valerie Monroe, untangles your questions about hair products.(beauty)
April 1, 2005... Q: There are a million hairstyling products out there--volumizers, thickeners, molding creams. I feel as if I need a doctorate in hairology to figure out which one to use. Can you help? A: You're bringing up an interesting issue, and it's...

Amazing grays; Don't mistake it for silver: the warm sheen of pewter is more glow than dazzle, making it cool for everyday use and queenly enough for a celebration.(comfort zone)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... STURDY, CURVY pitchers and pots are meant for pouring, not just showing off. What you'll drink in: pewter's pearly light, more early morning than high noon. It owes this unusual sheen to a mix of tin, copper, and antimony. (It used to contain...

Flash in the pan: no time, you say? In only 30 minutes, you can whip up a three-part gourmet extravaganza, with seafood pilaf, lime and ginger salad, and rum-drunk sundaes. TV chef Rachael Ray shows you how to get cooking.(great food)
April 1, 2005... IT'S 5:30 P.M., AND YOUR GUESTS ARE COMING AT 6:00. Do you know where your dinner is? According to Food Network chef Rachael Ray, tonight's sit-down meal--a Bermuda-inspired feast of seafood over rice pilaf, salad, and, for dessert, rum-drunk...

Seeing things.(reading room)(photographic book)(Esther Bubley: On Assignment)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... She made it seem like no big deal: just standing around, shooting a few pictures. But Esther Bubley's stunning photo sequences of people snoozing on a bus, playing bridge in a wartime boardinghouse, or running after the kids were as riveting to...

Uneasy street: Ian McEwan's darkly gorgeous Saturday holds up a perfectly cracked mirror to our jittery times.(reading room)(novel)(Saturday)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... THE WONDERFUL BRITISH NOVEList Ian McEwan tends to inhabit a fictional world in which gruesome things happen to people when least expected (on a picnic, say, or during a romantic trip to Venice), and tension amplifies with the turning of each...

The cure for envy.(reading room)(excerpt from "Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness")(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
April 1, 2005... "I have a wildly successful acquaintance next to whose perfectly pillowed existence mine seems a lumpy mattress. I've seen him on magazine covers, a self-satisfied, cock-of-the-walk, airbrushed grin on his face. Even worse, he's in my field,...

What's wrong with this picture? A stunning, carefully unfolding novel of an eerie school and its very special children.(reading room)(Remains of the Day)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Since his magnificent Remains of the Day, the work of Kazuo Ishiguro has grown stranger and stranger--each new book more exotic, hyperformal, and surreal than the last. Yet his essential concerns, the invisible ways we accommodate the abuse of...

New voice: where he's coming from; Race, class, and ambition bob and weave in a lyrical, risk-taking story collection.(reading room)(short stories)(I Got Somebody in Staunton)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... TALK ABOUT CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA AND YOU'RE rabble-rousing; connect it to race and you can pretty much guarantee your status as irresponsible demagogue. Even our literature, afforded extra license because of its apparently tiny social...

Boy, interrupted: Jonathan Safran Foer follows his smash debut, Everything Is Illuminated, with a witty, heartbreaking tour de force.(reading room)(novel)(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel is full of loud and close things. War, for example, in the form of the firebombings in Dresden and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center; and love, between a man and a woman, between a father and a...

God bless the woman: a brilliant chronicle of the life and loves of our greatest jazz singer.(reading room)(With Billie)(biography of Billie Holiday)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO, a woman named Linda Kuehl set out to write a biography of Billie Holiday. She recorded and transcribed interviews with the brilliant jazz singer's childhood friends, fellow musicians, fellow junkies, her lovers, her...

Going down?(reading room)(book)(My Depression: A Picture Book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Here's how it works: One minute you're feeling fantastic. Then comes a rejection, a loss, a squandered opportunity. Before you know it, you're slipping into a sinkhole of misery and self-doubt. Luckily, director and composer Elizabeth Swados...

Biblio: recommendations from our shelf to yours.(reading room)(books)(The Good Wife)(Suzy Zeus Gets Organized)(Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America)(Fairy Tales)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... * Every marriage is a balancing act, but for Patty Dickerson, whose husband, Tommy, goes to prison for a break-in that leads to a murder, married life is also a test of endurance and faith. The Good Wife (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Stewart...

Books that made a difference to Hope Davis: the Weather Man costar adores gritty American legends (Laura Ingalls Wilder, Willa Cather), a classic vision quest, and what a great Manhattan journalist left behind.(reading room)(Little House in the Big Woods)(My Antonia)(Siddhartha)(Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels)(Travels with Charley: In Search of America)(Up in the Old Hotel)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... LAST SUMMER I WAS READING THE NEW YORK Times Book Review and saw a mention of The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler. I was pregnant and not feeling that great, but the novel sounded intriguing, so I tried it. I finished it quickly and...

A friendship: how it ended; One was a happily married wife, mother, and grad student. The other was an opinionated, childless, twice-divorced writer. But their sensibilities were so in sync, they were convinced they'd be friends forever. Then, over the course of a year, everything crumbled. Vivian Gornick replays the tape and figures out what went wrong.(BOOK PREVIEW)(excerpt from the anthology, "The Friend Who Got Away")(Excerpt)
April 1, 2005... I HAD A FRIEND ONCE WITH WHOM I WAS CERTAIN I WOULD grow old. The reason I was certain was that by the time we were 30, we had already known each other 15 years and were just arriving at the starting point. In high school, we passed each other...

Makeover madness: not in love with your looks? Our life coach wishes you the courage to change what needs to be changed, the confidence to appreciate what doesn't, and the wisdom to know the difference.(advice, etc.)
April 1, 2005... MY NEW CLIENT, MARIA, LOOKS LIKE a victim of torture. She has two black eyes, a haunted expression, the inward-curling posture of a whipped puppy. In a tearful whisper, she describes the years of agony she's survived. It's not that she was ever...

Confessions of an ex-sex kitten: in her teens and 20s, she saw sex as a simple game of conquest--and whoever had the most boys at the end won. Today she'd rather stay home than wake up with a stranger. What changed? Lisa Dierbeck traces her evolution from vamp to veteran.(COUPLES)
April 1, 2005... I DON'T BELIEVE IN CASUAL SEX. IT'S NOT THAT I'M opposed to it exactly, it's just that--in my own experience--no such thing exists. If it's not emotional, I'm not interested. For me, sex without feeling is an empty ritual, a cold, mechanical...

Competition is not a dirty word: losing sucks, but so what?... and other lessons from a volleyball-playing daughter. Suzanne Braun Levine cheers the gains girls have made since jock became an equal-opportunity noun.(FAMILY)
April 1, 2005... RECENTLY, MY DAUGHTER had a major disappointment: She didn't get into her first-choice college. I had been dreading what that rejection, if it came, would do to her spirit and worrying about how I would support her. I remembered how...

Oprah talks to you; Lose weight with Oprah, Part 2: she answers your questions.
April 1, 2005... Ever since Oprah grabbed four Harpo staffers for her 12-week weight loss boot camp--eight workouts a week, strict eating rules, no wine, no excuses--two things have happened. The four have turned into lean, mean fat-fighting machines (turn the...

Health: what are you waiting for?(reflection)
April 1, 2005... A REMARKABLY PRODUCTIVE AND effective woman we know loves to dance: It made her feel good; it made her healthy. She used to be, even in her own humble estimation, a pretty good dancer. But a compelling--and consuming--job pulled her in another...

Spy in the house: an O investigation; Dust on the treadmill? Snickers in the sock drawer? Expired antibiotics in the medicine chest? We sent a professional health snoop to track four women who thought they were living right. The upshot: major health upgrades for all from our team of experts. Aimee Lee Ball reports.
April 1, 2005... IT IS 6 A.M. ON ONE of those unfailingly blue-sky days in Los Angeles, and Kara Fox is starting the morning as she starts every morning: having a mug of Taster's Choice instant coffee filled liberally with heavy cream. It's unlikely that any...

The healthy life: it's all in your head; How are you at sticking to a diet? Getting to the gym? Keeping doctors' appointments? A potentially groundbreaking study says that how well you take care of yourself depends on which corner of your brain tends to be more active. The good news: You can retrain your mind. Carol Mithers reports.
April 1, 2005... IN THE BATTLE AGAINST fat, these people are heroes, having achieved what most of us only long for--lasting weight loss. They're so unusual, they've become the subjects of ongoing research by scientists trying to finger just what it is that...

You need 8 glasses of water a day ... and other rules to blow off: everyone knows that sunlight will kill us, antioxidants will save us, and we should each lug around a gallon of water at all times to stay totally hydrated. Except that everyone's wrong! In an effort to help conventional wisdom catch up to the latest health findings, Sarah Wildman reconsiders some of the rules we live by.
April 1, 2005... Stay out of the sun. Not Entirely. Whoa--it seems that in our eagerness to avoid skin cancer, we went too far down that shady road. According to last June's Harvard Health Letter, allowing sunlight to touch your skin (experts generally suggest...

9 most confusing health mysteries of the year: your aunt swears by it ... your friend claims she read contradictory data in a health journal ... and now your husband tells you you're all nuts. Who's right, who's wrong? Jane E. Allen fields nine of the most perplexing, maddening, do-we-have-to-go-through-this-again? questions about nutrition, disease, and well-being.(Questions and Answers)
April 1, 2005... 1 Will my cell phone give me cancer? "The jury is still out," says Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, a UCLA neurosurgeon whose brain tumor patients often ask if cellular use is to blame. "None of the U.S. studies showed any significant correlation."...

The incredibles: some of the healthiest foods in the world are also the most delicious. Chef Michel Nischan uses these superfoods to stir up some inventive--and unforgettable--dishes.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... FOODS AREN'T DRUGS. EATING A DOSE OF OATMEAL ISN'T going to lower your cholesterol as effectively as statins will, and if you want your strep throat to fade fast, you're better off with a round of antibiotics than a shot of orange juice. But as...

Awakenings: after a long, gray winter, it's great to wake up to color, like these bold, beautiful lip shades--sheer, punchy brights and quietly dazzling desert neutrals--and rich jewel-toned eyeshadows. Jolene Edgar reports on the latest hue and cry in makeup.(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... YOU KNOW HOW SOMETIME AROUND THE CHANGE OF SEASONS, YOU GAZE TIREDLY into your closet and everything looks kind of bland (even if it's not), and then you look at your face and realize that it looks kind of bland, too (even if it's not)? We have...

Garden party; Call it the hothouse effect: big, gorgeous, full-blown flowers are breaking out on everything from bags to suits to gauzy dresses. Already we feel warmer.(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... A BLOOM OF ONE'S OWN Take a sedate shape like this silk cardigan (Tom K Nguyen, $178) and give it a rich fantasy life with a gorgeous stylized floral, reminiscent of crewel embroidery or an Indian shawl. A sweeping skirt (Maria Pinto,...

Breathing space.(appreciating nature)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Feel delicate wildflowers brush against your feet as you wander into this secluded meadow in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Stop to admire the gentle curves of spring boughs bursting with fragrant magnolia blossoms. PHOTOGRAPH BY...

"I think it was the shots": decades ago, in a southern country hospital, the four beautiful, identical little black girls known as the Fultz quadruplets came into the world. Today only one survives, her three sisters taken by a disease whose mysterious origins Catherine Fultz Griffin can only guess at. Melba Newsome reports on a fascinating, appalling all-American story of fame, tragedy, race, exploitation, and survival.
April 1, 2005... ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN THE BLIStering July heat, I arrive at the Shining Light Holiness Church in downtown Reidsville, North Carolina, hoping finally to meet Catherine Fultz Griffin. Decades ago she was one of the most recognizable black women...

Puddle jumpers; Precipitation probability: 90 percent. Style index: 100 percent. These boots will have you praying for rain.(Fashion)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... RUBBER IS JUST DUCKY With feet this frolicsome, you can laugh at any showers April throws your way. 1. Flamingos stalk a pea green sea on this whimsical pair. J. Crew, $48; jcrew.com. 2. Rainforest florals make a splashy print. Rafe, $125;...

Beauty, undercover: our favorite new foundations deliver antioxidants, serious SPFs, firming formulas--even an eraser to fix your mistakes.(Beauty)(sun protection factor )(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... 1. Light-capturing pigments in Bourjois Happy Light SPF15 ($20) even out complexions and give skin a dewy, allover radiance. The oil-free formula provides good coverage but blends quickly and easily. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2. Before...

The incredibles; Superfoods are hale, heavenly, and health-giving: yogurt and citrus turkey breast, miso-seared salmon, a nutty broccoli soup, and more (for story, see page 212).(THE RECIPES)
April 1, 2005... Pumpkin and Blueberry Tart [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pastry: 10 1/2 Tbsp. unsalted butter 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 3 Tbsp. raw sugar 1/4 tsp. salt 1 large egg, beaten Filling: 2 cups...

Shop guide (all prices are approximate).
April 1, 2005... COVER/HERE WE GO P.37 Vera Wang cardigan, $650, Bergdorf Goodman. American Apparel tank, $20; americanapparel.net. Oscar de la Renta cotton skirt, $1,500, Bergdorf Goodman. Yossi Harari bangles, price upon request, Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Celine...

What's going on.(Advertisement)
April 1, 2005... TIFFANY & CO. CLASSIC TIFFANY Tiffany with your eyes closed. The classic Tiffany fragrance, an elegant blend of Damascena rose, Indian jasmine, ylang-ylang, orange blossom and iris. Parfum, eau de parfum and luxurious body lotion....

Anti-aging breakthrough: better than Botox[R]*?[TM] "Who would have thought a stretch mark reducer would turn out to be the anti-wrinkle breakthrough of the decade!".(Advertisement)
April 1, 2005... In a remarkable turn of events, arguably one of the strangest in the history of cosmetics, women across the country are putting a stretch-mark reducing emulsion called StriVectin-SD[R] on their face to diminish the appearance of fine lines,...

What I know for sure.(Column)
April 1, 2005... WE'RE A COUNTRY THAT SPENDS 95 percent of our healthcare dollars on illnesses, and less than 5 percent on prevention and staying well. How mixed up is that? The paradigm needs to change. And the change begins with how we choose to see...