Leigh Behrens

You probably do it all the time on the phone, or in meetings. ''It'' is doodling, and Nancy Nelson says we should take such spontaneous scribblings more seriously. ''They come...

Clare Cooper Marcus specializes in home improvements. But that doesn`t mean the University of California at Berkeley professor spends her time fixing leaky faucets. As a self-described ''house counselor,'' Marcus...

If the man in your life has thinning hair, don`t even think of joking about it. ''People would not walk up to a woman and say `Boy, you have really...

There`s more evidence of the infiltration of aroma manipulation in our lives. Retailers are experimenting with smells intended to spur spending. ''Stores have manipulated everything else-the music, the lighting, the...

Tired of peering through tiny peepholes that don`t really reveal who your visitor is? Consider installing this optical security device: a high-tech, wide-angle viewer that lets you stay safely on...

Beware the black bar. For 50 years it`s been the signature of Glamour magazine`s Dos and Don`ts feature spotlighting the fashion and beauty faux pas of legions of women captured...

Women may have an edge at the negotiating table. The reason is that they approach the process differently than men, a psychologist explains in the November issue of Psychology Today...

American audiences are hungry for complex and compelling literary characters. That`s what Bebe Moore Campbell says accounts for the success of her first novel, as well as the blockbuster appeal...

If the approach of the party season sends you into spasms of small-talk panic, you may have mingle phobia. But don`t worry: Jeanne Martinet understands how you feel. The former...

Can`t conceive of having the time to attend a series of weekly childbirth preparation classes? Growing numbers of childbirth educators throughout the country have given birth to this solution: condensed...