This most certainly won't help the clinically germaphobic, but how about just keep your hands away from your face, wash them thoroughly with plain soap and lots of friction before you do touch your face or eat, and accept that you can't control all of your environment?

"Higher-arched feet don't do so well"—finally I get an explanation. I have absolutely never found a pair of shoes higher than 2 inches that don't make my actual feet hurt within an hour—not just squashed toes, although that happens too, but the balls and the arches!! I cannot comprehend how anyone wears heels, but I…

I bet someone on etsy has something like it, or someone would make it for you.

Not to mention that a man of equal height to me with my hip measurement would most assuredly have weight issues, but I am healthy as can be. My waist is under the cut-off for healthiness, although my BMI is overweight. I have a small waist and big hips. Big hips are correlated with higher estrogen levels. Wouldn't…

Actually I do shop at TjMaxx/Marshalls, but since I live downtown, I have to drive out to the edges. I choose to shop at the orderly ones. People: if I can't find it because it's in the wrong place, I probably won't buy it!

Dr. Phil at least used to be a licensed psychologist. It's Dr. Laura whose degree is in physiology or exercise science or some similar field.

According to The State newspaper, the problem was that no one told searchers about the dog, so they were using heat-detection from a helicopter, but discounted numerous images that were too big to be a little boy—there are lot of deer around here!! Yards are very big out there, too.

I am an American and I say "dreamt" and "burnt" a good deal of the time. I do watch a lot of British TV, but I never say "learnt."

This is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to "honor" killings and female genital mutilations.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" is commonly attributed to Gandhi.

I agree. I do think he's confused about the term "normal"—it has precision—it may differ depending on what universe you are in, but it is the middle of the curve (distribution curve). That said, he's a photographer, not a statistician. Give him a break.He's trying.

I'm guessing you've had trouble with straps falling down? If so, it means your band size is too big. Go down one band size and up a cup size and see if that doesn't help. A lot of 38 Cs are really 36 D and so on.

Women who are undergraduates, at that. Hardly a universal sample set of females.

July is hot, even in air-conditioning. Why would you subject yourself to being squeezed AND sweaty on a day you really ought to try to enjoy. Everybody knows what you look like anyway, especially your fiance, so stop obsessing on your appearance and start figuring out what really matters to you—which, since you read…

The newest version of the Atkins Diet, on which I have lost 15% of my body weight at age 51 over a year, emphasizes lean meat and fish and mandates an amount of carbs from vegetables. It limits your cheese to 2 oz. a day. It's not all bacon and pork rinds any more.

Stuffing is what you have when you have to stretch the real food. Greasy, soggy bread, unless it's the kind that's all dry like cheap cat food. Bleccchhh....

Adding to the list: Being able to assess accurately when you are wrong, admitting it and doing your best to make amends. Being able to take criticism.

Mark Bittman has done several lists of such foods for the New York Times—all good.

So far my credit union is not charging fees. If they do, I will seek another bank/credit union.