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AUGUST 18, 2013

THE BIG SQUEEZE

SHUNNING THE PLUS-SIZE SHOPPER BY KIM BHASIN

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SKINNY PEOPLE ONLY The unofficial policy for some retailers.

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NARGES BAJOGHLI: When I Ran Out of Birth Control in Iran QUOTED

Exit CULTURE: The Disturbing Evolution of My Little Pony THE THIRD METRIC: Sleeping Habits of the Hardest Working Man in TV TASTE TEST: Cheap vs.

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MARRIED TO YOUR JOB? Not these couples.

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N THIS WEEK’S issue, Kim Bhasin takes a look at some of the ways major clothing brands are excluding plus-sized shoppers — and finally getting called out for it.

We meet Elizabeth Licorish, a Lululemon Athletica employee in Philadelphia who noticed that large-sized clothes were being presented differently — they tended to have outdated styles, and were relegated to a separate area at the back of the store, often left clumped and unfolded under a table. Customers got the message.

As Licorish put it, “moms would come in with their daughters, look

around and say, ‘Clearly I can’t shop here.’”

And Lululemon isn’t alone — in recent months, consumer advocates have criticized several prominent brands, including Abercrombie & Fitch, for “reinforcing their labels as status symbols for the young, white and classically attractive.”

Despite the fact that retailers like H&M and Forever 21 have recently released plus-size lines, the industry has a long way to go toward treating all their custom-

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ers with the respect. A majority of plus-size women complain that they have trouble finding desirable clothing styles and pieces of high quality, according to a new report. As Kim writes, “The dearth of plus-size products reinforces an implicit message that larger Americans have been absorbing for years: Shop only at select retailers that welcome your body type.”

Elsewhere in the issue, Margaret Wheeler Johnson follows four couples that have taken steps to make their lives, as one couple puts it, “a little bit simpler.” The result is a series of portraits of couples at different stages in life, united by their desire to find a more humane and sustainable definition of success — making time for exercise, rest and renewal, while rejecting definitions of success that, not so long ago, had left them feeling burned-out and unfulfilled.

We meet the newlyweds Meghan and Josh, whose daily routine includes morning meditation, evening trips to the farmers market, yoga, and bike-riding. For another couple, Sarah and Jeff,

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it was graduating from college that gave them new perspective — and with it, the will to change their lives. According to Sarah, “when you’re not carrying around a bunch of frustration, that au-

The dearth of plus-size products reinforces an implicit message that larger Americans have been absorbing for years: Shop only at select retailers that welcome your body type.” tomatically puts you in a better mood and carries over into the relationship that you have with your partner; we’re a lot closer as a result.”

Finally, as part of our ongoing focus on stress, Gregory Beyer writes about Charlie Rose, and the napping habit that has allowed him to be more productive and more present on the air.

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STATE OF EMERGENCY Egyptian military and police on Wednesday stormed a pair of Muslim Brotherhood camps set up to protest the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, sparking violence throughout the city of Cairo. The Ministry of Health reported that hundreds have died and thousands have been injured. As the chaos ensued, the militarybacked government declared a month-long state of emergency and the country’s interim vice president, Mohammed ElBaradei, resigned in response to the bloody crackdown. President Obama condemned the violence on Thursday, saying the “Egyptian people deserve better than what we’ve seen over the last several days.”

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‘RACIALLY 2 DISCRIMINATORY’

A federal judge ruled this week that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy has violated thousands of minorities’ constitutional rights. “The city’s highest officials have turned a blind eye to the evidence that officers are conducting stops in a racially discriminatory manner,” U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote. She did not put an end to the program, but called for a monitor to oversee changes, such as making some officers wear body cameras. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has touted stop-and-frisk as a policy that has drastically lowered the crime rate in New York. He said he intends to appeal the ruling.

WHITEY GOES AWAY Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was convicted

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Monday of 11 murders in the 1970s and ’80s and was found guilty on money laundering, conspiracy and illegal firearms charges. The 83-year-old disappeared in the mid-1990s and spent 16 years on the run until authorities found him in 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif. He reportedly gave a thumbs up to his brother Jack while leaving the courtroom. Bulger faces life behind bars.

5-YEAR LOW

The government reported a $97.6 billion deficit for the month of July, setting it up to hit its lowest annual deficit in five years.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts the deficit will total $670 billion for this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Last year’s annual deficit was $1.09 trillion. If the government remains on track, it would be the first year since 2008 that the difference between spending and revenue is less than $1 trillion, the AP reports.

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AIRLINE MERGER CHALLENGED

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit this week to block a proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways, saying the deal would mean higher fares for consumers and reduce competition. “This is the best news that consumers could have possibly gotten,” said Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance. The airlines pledged to use “all legal options” to fight the challenge.

JESSE JACKSON JR. SENTENCED Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son

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of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, was sentenced Wednesday to two-and-a-half years in prison and three years of supervised release for using about $750,000 of campaign funds to buy personal items.

His wife was sentenced to a year in prison for filing false tax returns and must pay $22,000 in restitution. “If probation is not available to her, give me her time,” Jackson told the judge, referring to his wife.

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WHY THE GOP SHOULD KEEP PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP OFF TV AST SUNDAY, This Week With George Stephanopoulos kicked off with a question: “Why is Donald Trump stumping in Iowa?” The answer to that question is that Trump is an orange-skinned hucksterclown who wants to pretend to be

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a big deal in politics and a perennial presidential contender. He is the sort of buffoon that the Republican Party opted to keep far, far away from their convention — and this was in spite of the fact that they nevertheless chose to allow Clint Eastwood to do the weird things that he did.

It’s a question that doesn’t really ever need to be asked, let alone answered, on a Sunday show. But

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Enter This Week didn’t just raise a dumb question and seek a trivial answer, they devoted a lot of time to a deep exploration on the matter.

In addition, the bookers for This Week hit their rolodexes and decided that what the world needed was Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) on a panel. And over at Meet the Press, producers booked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).

Here is a message to the Republican Party, from me: Guys, I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but you are getting rooked pretty badly by the Sunday shows. Did y’all wake up today thinking that the best thing for your message was to have it carried by guys like Trump and Gohmert and King? I am guessing that’s not the case.

But that’s who got booked, because nothing is better for ratings than a bunch of hot messes on the teevee.

Trump happily obliged himself to the task of being a hot mess, though, continuing to offer up a steady stream of rhetorical skidmarks on the lunatic “Obama birth certificate” conspiracy theory as well: “Well, I don’t know, was there a birth certificate? You tell me. You know some people say that was not his birth certificate.

So maybe it was; maybe it wasn’t.”

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Additionally, Jonathan Karl asked Donald Trump the Important Questions, like, “Is Ted Cruz eligible to be president?” Karl knows that the answer to this question is “Yes.” But Karl asked Trump because he knew it would be some Super Duper Silliness OMGZ! “If he was born in Canada, perhaps not,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t know the circumstances. I heard somebody told

Here is a message to the Republican Party, from me: Guys, I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but you are getting rooked pretty badly by the Sunday shows.” me he was born in Canada.

That’s really his thing.”

And Trump’s “thing” is horseshit like this, which everyone at ABC News knew to be the case the second they agreed to interview him. I promise you, no one at ABC News thought that their interview with Trump would be good for America. Interviewing Trump is the political media version of the group of people who positioned pig’s blood above

Enter Carrie at the prom and then laughed in anticipation of the big joke they were about to pull, only in this case, “America” is Carrie. “HAR DE HAR, THERE’S GONNA BE PIG BLOOD EVERYWHERE!” is what the people at ABC News said when they hatched the idea of airing an interview with Donald Trump.

Louis Gohmert also made things terrible for everyone.

Right now, the GOP leadership is trying to tamp down the idea that they’d be willing to shut down the government unless they get an agreement from Democrats to defund Obamacare.

At the end of last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor — no weak-willed compromiser! — was strongly signaling that everyone needed to take a chill pill.

So naturally, ABC went out and got a guy that they knew would say something like this: STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think you have the votes to defund Obamacare? It doesn’t appear like that’s...

GOHMERT: No. Not right now.

But we’ll see after August after people go home.

Louis, call Eric Cantor’s office!

Meanwhile, over at the Meet

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the Press, King was on, defending his remark, “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” There was never a moment that Gregory gave any suggestion that resolving this

I wake up in the morning and see that I’m going to have to sit through a segment with Donald Trump and my reservoir of ‘willingness to go on living’ just evaporates.” weeks-old matter was important to journalism or immigration reform or anything. King was doing so, just because David Gregory wanted him to come on Meet the Press so that everyone could watch King flop his gob over this matter one last time.

Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist, thankfully decided that she’d heard enough. “I think Congressman King should go get himself some therapy for his melon fixation,” she said. “I think there might

Enter be medication for that. I think he’s a mediocre congressman who’s got no legislative record, and the only time he makes national press is when he comes out and says something offensive about the undocumented or Hispanics.”

Republican Party, this is all stuff that makes these shows really painful for people like me to watch. I wake up in the morning and see that I’m going to have to sit through a segment with Donald Trump and my reservoir of “willingness to go on living” just evaporates.

Surely you guys feel the same way, when the guy that Meet the Press goes out and gets for their panel discussion on immigration — strictly for the purpose of derailing it — is the guy who recently embarrassed y’all with his discussion of illegal immigrants and their sacks-of-marijuana-based Crossfit regimen. You guys probably don’t like seeing these guys get booked any more than I do.

Perhaps our interests are aligned?

Hey, we called around and got some quotes about Sunday offering of Trump-Gohmert-King, just for fun. “Looking forward to future Sunday shows filled with Markwayne Mullin,” griped one GOP operative. Another told

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us, “We have Fox and we use (like props) the most irritating, obscure Democratic political voices, like Bob Beckel, Susan Estrich, Pat Caddell, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. They have the major networks. We used to get Bachmann [on these shows], and now it looks like we’re gonna get Gohmert. [Bob] Dole’s Meet the Press appearance record could be in jeopardy.”

We have Fox and we use (like props) the most irritating, obscure Democratic political voices... They have the major networks.”

Look, Republican Party, there is probably nothing you can do about Donald Trump, because he is a unique, sparkling gas-sack unto himself. But can you guys see about keeping Gohmert and King occupied on Sunday mornings? Maybe give them both a sack of jacks and a rubber ball to bounce, or something? It would make my life better and it might even make your jobs easier as well.

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Priced Out of Child Care Child care costs have risen in recent years while the federal minimum wage has not. For most parents, child care is the biggest household expense, outpacing average rent payment in many states. Below, see what it costs — by state

on average — to put an infant and a 4 year old in a child care center for one year. In most states, the price of care for two young children exceeds the salary of someone working full-time in a minimum wage job. — Katy Hall

AVERAGE ANNUAL COST OF CHILD CARE FOR TWO CHILDREN

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU. CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA

$10,000 $14,999

$15,000 $19,999

$20,000 $24,999

STATES WHERE THE YEARLY COST OF CHILD CARE FOR TWO CHILDREN IS MORE THEN THE MINIMUM WAGE

PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OLD IN REGULAR CHILD CARE DURING A TYPICAL WEEK, SPRING OF 2011

$20,500 AND ABOVE

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Lake Bell Bemoans the ‘Sexy Baby Vocal Virus’ Bell: Do you find it, like, cute?

Do you think it’s, like, sexy?

Ricky Camilleri: No. Bell: Good, because it’s not.

I’m just kidding (laughs).

Above: Bell at a screening of Black Rock in May 2013. Below: Alexandra Holden (left), Bell (center) and Fred Melamed (right) in In a World, a film also written and directed by Bell.

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Edward Snowden Is Only the Latest Cyber Fugitive to Find Haven in Russia EDWARD SNOWDEN may be the most high-profile computer-savvy fugitive to find safe haven in Russia, but he is hardly the first. In the telling of American law enforcement authorities, Russia has become a

primary sanctuary for hackers who use the Web to attack companies and individuals in the United States.

When President Obama scrapped a planned Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, the White House acknowledged that one factor was Snowden, the fugitive intelligence

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Voices analyst who leaked secrets about the National Security Agency’s controversial cyber-spying programs and then gained refuge in Russia.

But for American law enforcement agencies, the Snowden episode was merely the latest indignity, landing atop a stack of files in which Russia has ignored pleas from Washington to help with investigations and extradite alleged lawbreakers to the United States.

Speaking last Tuesday at a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York City, Joseph Demarest, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said that “well over 90 percent” of hackers are based overseas, making law enforcement dependent upon cooperation with foreign governments.

“We see our approach to this as global,” he said. “We can’t do it without foreign partners.”

Demarest did not specify how much activity can be attributed to Russia, but other estimates underscore the scope of the problem. Hackers operating in Russia are responsible for more than one-third of cyber-crime revenues worldwide or as much as $3.7 billion a year, according to Mark Galeotti, a professor of global affairs at New York University.

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In recent weeks, current and former American officials have vented frustration over their inability to gain assistance from governments in countries in which hackers attack concerns in the United States. In a

What most people don’t understand is these are sovereign countries with laws that are completely different than ours. They’ve done nothing illegal in their country, therefore they can’t be arrested, and that makes it really, really difficult.” rare move, prosecutors last month publicly named three alleged cyber criminals who are still at large, with law enforcement officials telling Reuters this was intended as “a slap at uncooperative Russian authorities.”

At the Fordham conference last week, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff cited that case as an example of how other nations — even some that have signed extradition treaties with the United States — are failing to crack down on computer crime.

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“That’s got to change.”

In Russia, fugitive hackers often live in plain sight. One alleged cyber criminal responsible for unleashing a virus on Facebook routinely posted his location on Foursquare, according to researchers who investigated him.

For the most part, Russian officials have not cracked down on hackers because they do not attack computer systems in Russia, and therefore are not violating laws in that country, according to E.J. Hilbert, a former FBI agent who investigated cybercrime.

“What most people don’t understand is these are sovereign countries with laws that are completely different than ours,” Hilbert said. “They’ve done nothing illegal in their country, therefore they can’t be arrested, and that makes it really, really difficult.”

Without assistance from Russian police, Facebook last year took the unusual step of publicly releasing the names, aliases and photographs of five Russian cybercriminals accused of operating a virus known as “Koobface.”

The Koobface virus prompted Facebook users to install software

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We still have countries that don’t really treat this as serious. That’s got to change.” to watch a video and thereby installed malware on their computers that helped hackers to commit advertising fraud and steal from users’ bank accounts.

Facebook’s efforts appeared to temporarily shut down the virus.

But the cybercriminals behind it are still at large.

Even close American allies have refused to allow their citizens to be tried for cybercrimes on American

Scottish computer hacker Gary McKinnon was accused of breaking into the NASA and Pentagon computer networks. The British home secretary declined to extradite him.

Voices soil. Last fall, British Home Secretary Theresa May declined to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British citizen, to face charges of breaking into computer networks of NASA and the Pentagon in 2002. At the time, authorities called the break-in “the biggest military hack of all time.”

McKinnon admitted to accessing U.S. government computers but maintains he was only looking for evidence of UFOs. May sided with McKinnon’s supporters, who argued that he suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and depression.

“After careful consideration of all of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon’s extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr McKinnon’s human rights,” May said last fall.

Some accused cybercriminals have not only avoided extradition to the United States, they have even become public figures in their home countries.

In Ukraine in 2005, police arrested Dmitry Golubov, who went by the nickname “Script,” and charged him with running a website called CarderPlanet.com. The site was a popular forum for hackers to exchange data about stolen credit

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cards, a scheme that has cost U.S. banks millions of dollars in losses.

Golubov had been a fugitive for years “due to indifference from Ukrainian authorities,” according to a story in Wired.com. But a

Facebook last year took the unusual step of publicly releasing the names, aliases and photographs of five Russian cybercriminals accused of operating a virus known as “Koobface.” few months after his arrest, two Ukrainian politicians persuaded a local judge to drop the charges and release Golubov from prison.

Hilbert, who worked on the case while at the FBI, said the politicians convinced the judge that “it was a detriment to the Ukrainian economy to keep him in jail.”

“It was hurting those guys pocketbooks when the guy was no longer able to pay their bribes,” Hilbert said.

After his release, Golubov became the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine.

Gerry Smith is a technology reporter at The Huffington Post.

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When I Ran Out of Birth Control in Iran

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RECENTLY HAD TO extend my trip to Iran and ran out of birth control. No biggie, I thought, contraceptive pills are easily found in pharmacies throughout the country and you don’t even need a prescription.

I walked into a pharmacy in Tehran two nights ago, showed the pharmacist my own birth control pills from the United States, and asked for something similar. “We don’t have anything like this,” he said. “Our choices of birth control have become extremely limited the past few months.” With the same tired look he also responded to questions from other customers, repeatedly forced to say the same thing: “We no longer have that. You have to check on the black market.” ¶ I knew that Western sanctions against Iran had made it difficult, if not impossible, to procure many vital

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Voices medicines. Cancer patients, sufferers of multiple sclerosis and those with numerous others serious conditions have turned to buying medicine on the black market for exorbitant prices, and at times not finding them at all. But I never thought there would be shortages of medicines as routine as birth control. Juggling requests and questions from an anxious crowd of other customers, the pharmacist barely looked back at me: “Ma’am, the only thing I can offer you is Yaz or Yasmin. That’s the best we have in Iran right now.”

I was deeply worried, as Yaz was bad news. I had taken it four years ago only to develop blood clots and extreme mood swings, and gained weight. Yaz and Yasmin are the same birth control brands that now face major lawsuits in the United States because they have been linked to heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, and blood clots in women. Distributed

by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, there are currently more than 9,000 pending lawsuits against these brands of pills.

I could not believe that the best birth control left in Iran — an Iran whose pharmaceutical market has

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been decimated by sanctions — were the same pills facing court action and considered a serious health threat in the United States.

I visited several pharmacies that same day, and received the same answer from one beleaguered pharmacist after another, all of whom had grown tired of telling their customers they no longer had the medicine they needed.

The best birth control left in Iran... were the same pills facing court action and considered a serious health threat in the United States.”

For years, there has been a plethora of birth control pills and other contraceptives easily available and extremely affordable in Iran, a country that boasts one of the most successful family planning programs in the world. It is only in the aftermath of cumulative, American-led sanctions against Iran’s banking and financial sectors that most of these options have disappeared from pharmacies. Up until two months ago, pharmacists told me, there were

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simply no foreign-made birth control pills available at all. Many doctors are wary of prescribing the Iranian-made pills because sanctions have made access to the raw materials required to produce them nearly impossible, making many of these drugs unreliable.

I went to a gynecologist to see if she could prescribe something for me that was close enough to the pills I take back home. I told the doctor that I was not willing to take Yaz or Yasmin given my prior experience with them. “I know how horrible they are,” she said, “but you only need to take them until you get back to the U.S.

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I don’t prescribe anything else to my patients, because they’re simply worse. This is the best we have in Iran now.” And she proceeded to write me three other prescriptions: one in case I had nausea, one in case I experienced spotting, and the other in case I developed extreme headaches. “You’ll have to put up with the potential weight gain and mood swings. But if you get a blood clot, come see me immediately.” I walked out of her office with four prescriptions in hand.

Astonished that good birth control that would not make a woman sick had become so difficult to find, I traveled to pharmacies throughout Tehran and Karaj the next day.

In Karaj, a burgeoning city 20 kilometers west of Tehran, a phar-

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macist told me that when it comes to such medicines specifically for women, most are no longer available. One pharmacist put the situation in perspective like this: “Two months ago, we didn’t even have access to foreign birth control — at least we do now, even if it’s Yaz or Yasmin. But go searching in all of Iran, and you won’t find any vaginal creams or vaginal antibiotics. And for women who are undergoing IVF treatment, they have to search high and low to buy their medicines on the black market.”

What all this means is that women suffering from yeast infections, urinary tract infections, and other vaginal infections have no recourse to modern medical treatment for extremely common, painful maladies.

Some have suggested that Iran’s birth control shortages may also be due to the Ahmadinejad government’s push to reverse the country’s family planning program in a bid to boost the national birth rate and increase family size (today, Iran has a population growth rate of 1.2 percent and a fertility rate of 1.6). I posed this specific question to pharmacists and manufacturers, who are working at the

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frontline of shortages.

They agreed that mismanagement and internal conflict over public health policy play a role in medicine shortages, but on the issue of birth control, they didn’t think it was the government’s doing. Foreign brands of birth control went missing for five months at precisely the same time that other foreign medicine became

If decreased access to good birth control pills was government policy to increase the birth rate, then where were the necessary injections for IVF treatment?” hard to find in the country. Nearly three months ago, Yaz and Yasmin returned to the market, but other foreign brands that used to be widely available did not.

Throughout this, however, Iranian-made birth control pills have remained on the market. Some raised the issue of IVF treatments, arguing that if decreased access to good birth control pills was government policy to increase the birth rate, then where were

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the necessary injections for IVF treatment? And why have vaginal antibiotics and creams disappeared, which have nothing to do with increasing the population?

“In short, what is going on is that medicine for women has become increasingly difficult to find — all medicine for women, and no one talks about it,” said a pharmacist in Tehran’s Vanak Square.

Last month the U.S. Treasury Department, which oversees all American sanctions, announced that it was adding items to its general license for medicine export to Iran. The export of medicine has always been allowed under the current sanctions regime against Iran, yet there is still a severe shortage of medicine in the country. At this point, actions like this from the U.S. have become comical for those of us who travel to Iran frequently. Which bank is willing to make the transactions necessary for the medicine to reach Iran, given that sanctions have choked off Iranian banks from the world? Which company is willing to ship the medicine to Iran, given that almost all shipping routes have been sanctioned?

The U.S. Department of Treasury

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can appear to be making a humanitarian gesture, but without making actual changes to banking and trade sanctions — which have been and will continue to block the sale of medicines to Iran — nothing will change.

And in the meantime, millions of women in Iran will continue to suffer the consequences of com-

In short, what is going on is that medicine for women has become increasingly difficult to find.” promised U.S.-made birth control pills and the lack of any medications at all to treat the other gynecological problems they may have.

American policymakers, who ironically invoked the plight of women in the Middle East to enact their wars in the region after Sept. 11, should know that their policies in Iran are quite literally making women sick.

Narges Bajoghli is a Ph.D student in anthropology at New York University, and director of the documentary The Skin That Burns.

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“ 125 pounds of pure mayhem.”

— HuffPost commenter tanguapo, on Justin Bieber losing it at a club

“ Close enough.”

— Mark Wahlberg,

in a Facebook post of an image of himself with two fans who mistook him for Matt Damon

“ I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.”

— President Obama,

in a press conference last Friday

“ Now when your female friends come out, the proper response is ‘That’s So Raven.’”

— HuffPost commenter GentlemanOfLeisure, on Raven-Symone coming out

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“ Paying employees good money for doing a good job is very profitable for everyone involved.”

— HuffPost commenter TheRoosterman,

Wait a second, we were misinformed by a cable news doctor?!

on fast-food joint Moo Cluck Moo paying workers $12 an hour

— Stephen Colbert,

on CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently apologized for “misleading” the public on the potential benefits of medical marijuana

“ As it’s kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: Of course.”

— Jennifer Lawrence,

in the September issue of Vogue, on knowing she would be famous since childhood

“ It was the only logical decision.”

— HuffPost commenter Pd9,

on Netflix briefly pulling Star Trek III because of issues with Klingon and Vulcan translations

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SHUNNING THE PLUS-SIZE SHOPPER

By KIM BHASIN

Back when she still worked at a Lululemon Athletica store in downtown Philadelphia, Elizabeth Licorish was struck by the contrasting ways the company showcased different sizes of its wildly popular yoga pants.

Most of the merchandise was presented out on the floor, hung on the walls, or folded neatly in cabinets for all the world to see.

But the largest sizes — the 10s and the 12s — were relegated to a separate area at the back of the store, left clumped and unfolded under a table.

These larger offerings were rarely restocked, said Licorish,

who worked at Lululemon for four months in 2011. The only styles available in those sizes were old designs whose fashion moment had long since passed.

“All the other merchandise in the store was kind of sacred, but these were thrown in a heap,” Licorish told The Huffington Post. “It was definitely discriminatory to those who wear larger sizes.”

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THE BIG SQUEEZE Far from an accident, the exiling of larger clothing by Lululemon is a central piece of the company’s strategy to market its brand as the look of choice for the stylishly fitness-conscious, according to former employees and consumer advocates. They say this treatment of larger clothes and customers reflects the culture that Lululemon represents — one that falsely suggests skinniness is the paramount feature of health.

Lululemon declined to comment.

A similar mode of image maintenance determines what lands on shelves at many major retail outlets, experts say. The dearth of plus-size products reinforces an implicit message that larger Americans have been absorbing for years: Shop only at select retailers that welcome your body type. Plus-size women between the ages of 30 and 45 are supposed to peruse the aisles at Lane Bryant. Younger women and teens are expected to drive to their local mall and go to Hot Topic’s plussize specialty spinoff Torrid.

The definition of plus-size clothing varies, with PLUS Model Magazine setting the break-off point at size 12, while The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have put

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it at size 14. The average dress size among American women is a 14, according to a 2011 report from Women’s Wear Daily.

In recent months, prominent brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch have drawn criticism from consumer advocates for messages that have seemed to reinforce their labels as status symbols for the young, white and classically attractive.

But while Abercrombie, which refuses to sell clothes that are larger than size 10 despite the outcry, has felt the brunt of consumer outrage, numerous other brands market themselves to the same segment, touting them-

“All the other merchandise in the store was kind of sacred, but [the 10s and the 12s] were thrown in a heap,” former Lululemon employee Elizabeth Licorish said.

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“ SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS ‘LOVE YOUR BODY... BUT NOT UNLESS YOU’RE SKINNY ENOUGH TO FIT INTO OUR CLOTHES.’ ”

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Urban Outfitters, a teen retailer known for its quirky merchandise and edgy T-shirts, doesn’t sell any clothes larger than size 12, which the brand considers “extra-large,” as Lululemon does. American Apparel and Express both cap their in-store offerings at size 12, but make the climb to 14 if customers

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The company is best known for its $98 stretchy yoga pants and other athletic gear — the sort of clothing people may purchase when they aspire to exercise and get into better shape. Nonetheless, the company has shown reluctance to offer women’s clothes larger than size 12, choosing instead to ignore the $14 billion plus-size apparel industry and protect its brand.

Indeed, even as it contends with slowing growth, Lululemon has

“ IT’S A MONEY LOSER, FOR SURE. I UNDERSTAND THEIR PLIGHT, BUT IT’S TOUGH.” – CHIP WILSON, LULULEMON FOUNDER order online. Urban Outfittersowned Anthropologie and J. Crew each make the cut at 12 in their stores as well, jumping to 16 in their e-commerce ventures.

These companies have in essence opted to maintain their images as wardrobes of the slim instead of expanding their potential sales.

Lululemon may at first seem an unlikely member of such ranks.

made it clear that it’s not interested in attracting plus-size shoppers.

At the Philadelphia store where Licorish worked, she said she grew accustomed to seeing plussize shoppers enter and quickly leave, having deduced that this was not their place.

“There was sort of a grumpy response to people who weren’t familiar with the brand,” she said of the Lululemon culture in her store. “Moms would come in with their daughters, look around and

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Lululemon treats its larger sizes differently because it sells so few of the products compared with its more popular, smaller-size offerings, according to a former store supervisor who spoke to HuffPost on condition she not be named.

Size 12 yoga pants were “not displayed normally” in her store and were consigned to a heap in the rear because her store didn’t carry much inventory in that size.

It would have looked strange had workers put the few 12s out on the floor with the rest of the sizes, the former supervisor said.

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“We didn’t want it to look sparse,” she said, adding that the size 12s tend to gather dust. “They just sit in the store and you sell them like once every six months.”

In an interview with the Calgary Herald in 2005, Lululemon founder and former chief executive officer Chip Wilson said that it takes 30 percent more fabric to create plus-size clothes, meaning that he would have to charge a higher price for them. That’s something Wilson would never do, he said at the time, because plussize people are sensitive and the company would feel intense fall-

Trendy retailers Forever 21 and H&M have started plus-sized lines, but they are exceptions to the rule.

Most similar brands carry sizes that favor thinner women.

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out from the community.

“It’s a money loser, for sure,” he told the Calgary Herald. “I understand their plight, but it’s tough.”

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THE PLIGHT OF THE PLUS-SIZE SHOPPER Wilson might just as well have been speaking for much of the body-conscious retail marketing world.

A majority of plus-size women complain that they have trouble finding desirable clothing styles and difficulty locating apparel of high quality, according to a 2012 report from the research and consulting firm The NPD Group.

The reason for this comes down to simple dollars. Retailers are engaging in systematically optimizing the physical space within their stores, seeking to squeeze the most revenue out of every limited square inch. The most profitable products get the prime space and promotion. Plus-sizes tend to get squeezed into the margins, if at all.

“Stores don’t stretch,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at The NPD Group. “They’re not like a balloon. There is finite space and they’ve maximized it over the past decade.”

That said, some apparel retailers have been carving out extra space

for plus-size shoppers. Four years ago, the trendy teen retailer Forever 21 released its own plus-size line, w+. Fast-fashion mammoth H&M followed suit in 2012 with its own similarly-named line, H&M+.

The yoga and athletic-wear realm has seen steady movement toward the plus-size crowd. Consumers are expected to spend about $332 million on athletic wear sold at plus-size women’s clothing stores this year, according to an estimate from market research firm IBISWorld — a figure that doesn’t capture purchases made in stores that also sell non plus-size items.

Cordelia Storm, a coach at a nonprofit parkour gym, launched a petition on Change.org last year, pressuring Lululemon to offer plussize options.

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“ THEY’RE BASICALLY SAYING, ‘TO BE HEALTHY, TO DO YOGA, TO BE A PART OF THIS MANIFESTO, YOU HAVE TO LOOK LIKE THIS.’ ” Lululemon’s biggest competitor, Gap’s yoga brand Athleta, offers “extended” sizes, and so does Gap’s Old Navy, which sells yoga gear as well.

Lane Bryant and Avenue, known for their everyday plus-size wares, have begun to offer some items for

yoga lovers, too. Nordstrom’s Zella brand climbs up to size 24 for some styles, in an attempt to draw in plus-size customers.

But this evolution has unfolded too slowly to satisfy many consumer advocates, who have lately targeted Lululemon in a campaign to expand plus-size offerings.

Late last year, Cordelia Storm, a coach at a nonprofit parkour gym

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in Seattle, Wash., launched a petition on Change.org to pressure Lululemon to offer plus-size options. “Wouldn’t it be amazing if Lululemon took an active stand in showing women of all sizes being athletic?” the petition asked, calling for the company’s support for “fitness at any size.”

Storm asserts that Lululemon is implicitly fetishizing skinniness as healthy, telling society that leanness represents strength. By focusing attention on one body type as the epitome of health and fitness, Lululemon shuns those who don’t fit into that mold, she said.

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like this,’” Storm said.

Lululemon has sent mixed messages about its acceptance of other body types — fit or not. In a 2010 post entitled “Love Your Body,” a Lululemon blogger posted an inspirational tale on her company’s official community blog, encouraging readers to feel good about how they look. Alongside her words were many photos of skinny Lululemon ambassadors.

“There’s no size restriction on beauty and confidence,” she wrote.

Readers were quick to note the inconsistency.

“So what you’re saying is ‘Love your body... but not unless you’re skinny enough to fit into our clothes,” one commenter replied.

“How hypocritical. Your stores do not follow the philosophy you claim to follow,” wrote another.

“Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny.

But then you become totally vanilla,” Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries told Salon in 2006.

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“ MOMS WOULD COME IN WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS, LOOK AROUND AND SAY, ‘CLEARLY I CAN’T SHOP HERE.’ ”

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THE BIG SQUEEZE One Lululemon customer wrote in the comments that it was “upsetting” that her larger friends couldn’t wear the brand, but acknowledged that she still loves the clothes.

At Lululemon, it’s important to be part of the club, according to former employees. Some workers and customers genuinely become “indoctrinated” in the Lululemon lifestyle and become blind to the retailer’s shortcomings, Licorish said.

Though it’s one of the attributes that helped Lululemon cultivate its famously devoted customers, the cult-like nature of the brand can get out of control, she added.

At the center of the lifestyle is the Lululemon Manifesto, which instructs people to take simple steps in their lives to better themselves: “do one thing a day that scares you” and use goals to “trigger your subconscious computer.”

But the manifesto also presents some higher-level ideologies, reinforcing what Fast Company has called the “Cult of Selling” at Lululemon.

“Nature wants us to be mediocre because we have a greater chance to survive and reproduce,” the manifesto says. “Mediocrity is as close to the bottom as it is to the top, and will give you a lousy life.”

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“That’s pretty scary,” Licorish said. “You couldn’t get away from it and it kind of invaded your life.”

LULULEMON’S FORCEFIELD Even as Lululemon draws unwanted scrutiny for its failure to embrace plus-size customers, the consequences have been few.

Storm’s petition never managed to gain traction, fizzling out at just over 100 signatures. Boycotts and other calls for action have yet to materialize, a fact that marketing experts attribute to Lululemon’s self-selecting crowd: Only lean people tend to shop there, so the company’s exclusion does not affect them, experts say.

Many former employees admit to being swept up in the cult-like Lululemon lifestyle.

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“ A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T BELONG [IN OUR CLOTHES], AND THEY CAN’T BELONG. ARE WE EXCLUSIONARY? ABSOLUTELY.” Lululemon’s experience stands in contrast to the torrent of outrage that hit teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch this spring when Business Insider resurrected comments CEO Mike Jeffries made in a 2006 interview with Salon.

“A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong,” Jeffries told Salon. “Are we

exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don’t alienate anybody, but you don’t excite anybody, either.”

In essence, Abercrombie merely acknowledged openly the same sorts of practices at work through much of retail, but that brazen admission made the brand radioactive in some quarters.

Abercrombie & Fitch unabashedly states that they only cater to the thin.

THE BIG SQUEEZE “Abercrombie is that brand you love to hate,” said Dorothy Crenshaw, CEO and creative director of public relations firm Crenshaw Communications, who noted that Lululemon comes across as a brand that benefits from the cheerful, inclusive nature of yoga culture. “I guess I hold [Lululemon] to a different standard.”

Margaret Bogenrief, co-founder and partner at ACM Partners, a boutique financial advisory firm, said consumers shouldn’t be shouting at retailers like Lululemon and Abercrombie. They’re very particular brands that appeal to a distinct customer base that has been carved out over time, she said. Angry customers would be better served by targeting massmarket retailers like Target and Old Navy to change the plus-size shopping world, she added.

Retailers like Lululemon and Abercrombie shouldn’t sell plus-size clothing because it would be bad for business, since the larger sizes doesn’t mesh appropriately with their brands, according to Bogenrief.

“They hate unhealthy living, and for better or worse, plus-size people aren’t included in that,” she said, referring to the com-

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pany’s culture. “Lululemon is very image conscious. That’s why women are shelling out $100 for a pair of pants they could get at Target for $20.”

Bogenrief went on to say that executives are simply doing what they think is best for Lululemon’s bottom line and the retailer is not alienating its own customers — just people who wouldn’t shop there anyway. Still, she admitted that Lululemon’s decision to stay away from plus sizes is “wrapped in an ugly package,” and the company could improve outreach to women who feel left out.

“There’s a difference between unfortunate, cruel behavior and attitudes, and what makes sense for business,” Bogenrief said.

“Traditionally, retailers are generally operating in their best interest.”

Kim Bhasin is a senior retail reporter for The Huffington Post.

HuffPost Live’s Nancy Redd discusses Lululemon’s business strategy on air. Tap here to watch the full segment.

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REARRANGED MARRIAGES These Couples Are Done Letting Work Rule Their Lives

BY MARGARET WHEELER JOHNSON

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ewlyweds Meghan Telpner and Josh Gitalis’ professional lives are the stuff of overworked urbanite fantasies. Both are self-employed — Josh, 31, as a nutritionist, Meghan, 33, teaching online cooking courses. Their daily routine involves meditating together in the morning and evening trips to the farmers market, with lots of yoga and bike riding in between. They fell in love in part because each prioritizes healthy living, which Josh describes as “almost a religion.”

Meghan and Josh, and other like-minded couples profiled in The Huffington Post, have intentionally reshaped their lives to be, as one couple puts it, “a little bit simpler.”

They value exercise and recreation as much as work. They reject corporate ladder-climbing and the miserable home life that can be its byproduct. They simultaneously want less and so much more.

This new approach to work and life was the focus of a conference hosted by Huffington Post President and CEO Arianna Huffington and Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski in June 2013 called “The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money & Power.” “Society’s defini-

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tion of success [is] not working for anyone,” Huffington said recently.

“It’s not working for women, it’s not working for men ... It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.”

Instead, Huffington argued, we should measure success in terms of a third metric: well-being.

The couples you’ll meet below are taking a Third Metric approach not just to their lives, but also to

In a 2007 study, 662 divorced individuals... “considered the accumulation of everyday stresses as a central trigger for divorce.” their marriages. Given the fact that 50 percent of first marriages fail, it’s not a bad strategy. In a 2007 study, 662 divorced individuals didn’t cite general stress as a cause of their split, but a majority of them “considered the accumulation of everyday stresses as a central trigger for divorce.”

In an era when it is often financially necessary for men and women to “lean in,” marriages like Meghan and Josh’s seem almost transgressive. However, data from

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THE THIRD METRIC the Families and Work Institute suggests they are acting on what many of us are feeling. A study titled “Times Are Changing: Gender and Generation at Work and Home” showed that men and women’s desire for more responsibility at work slides between the ages 25 and 44.

That shift in focus could be generational. Millennials and those straddling Generations Y and X know downward mobility all too well. They witness how little sleep, and how many emails and competing demands the most successful boomers and elder Gen Xers withstand. They also know how stressed they are. An American Psychological Association survey published earlier this year found people ages 18 to 33 are more stressed than Americans in other age brackets. It’s no wonder some 20- and 30-somethings have decided that living for their jobs probably won’t fulfill them, and have begun devoting their energy to the things that might — including their marriages.

For now, these pairs are outliers.

They are also privileged. Most of the spouses we profile have fouryear college degrees, and several have flexible schedules — a very rare scenario among American workers. (Meghan and Josh live in

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“ Society’s definition of success [is] not working for anyone... It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.”

Canada, where flex work and self employment seem to be slightly more common.) But they’ve also adjusted to lower, sometimes inconsistent incomes, altered their career trajectories and made sacrifices in the interest of living better.

Maybe education and socioeconomic status are essential ingredients in marriages as low-stress as theirs. But according to them, it’s a deliberate change in values that has made all the difference between a thriving marriage and a failing one.

What if they’re onto something?

Arianna Huffington and Mika Brzezinski (right) host a conference, “The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money & Power,” in June 2013.

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MEGHAN and JOSH When you first talk to newlyweds Meghan Telpner, 33, and Josh Gitalis, 31, their lives sound like an urban fairy tale.

After Josh, a nutritionist, gets back from the gym each morning, he and Meghan, a self-employed online cooking instructor, meditate together for 20 minutes before breakfast. His workday involves

client appointments in the morning, and workshops and teaching engagements in the afternoon. In a loft space Meghan renovated to create a double kitchen, she conducts her classes, develops recipes and writes. Each evening Meghan goes to yoga or takes a bike ride (Toronto weather permitting), then meets Josh at the farmers market to buy supplies for dinner. After they eat, they retreat to the infrared sauna they recently installed in an extra

Newlyweds Meghan Telpner and Josh Gitalis met at The Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto.

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It wasn’t always this blissful.

Meghan held eight successive jobs with eight different advertising firms in her first three years of employment, working 10- to 11-hour days that started at 5 a.m. There was huge demand in her specific field, interactive advertising, in 2004 and 2005, so headhunters called her constantly. “They would offer me more money, and I thought that was what I was supposed to want, so I would take the jobs,” she said. “I thought, maybe if I was getting paid more, it would be more enjoyable.” It wasn’t.

While logging those long hours, she was battling a painful and mysterious digestive illness that ultimately rendered her unable to work. She took a leave of absence.

“I was fortunate that I was making a lot more money than 24- and 25-year olds really need to have, so I had savings that I could live off of,” she said. “I had my parents’ support as well. If I could no longer afford to live on my own, I could move back home with them. I had that fallback.”

Soon after she was diagnosed

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with Crohn’s disease, which causes inflammation of the lower gastrointestinal tract. She was prescribed medication and told that she might have to have her intestines removed.

“My priority was 100 percent to make sure that didn’t have to happen,” said Meghan, who began a regimen of acupuncture, yoga, meditation, a lot of rest and a diet of completely unprocessed food.

After six weeks, she was symptom free and wanted to “learn from a more formal perspective what I had done that made this work.”

Meghan decided she was done with advertising and the lifestyle it required, and enrolled in Toronto’s Institute of Holistic Nutrition where she met Josh.

They quickly discovered they had a lot in common; both grew up in loving middle-class families near Toronto, their mothers are artists and both sets of parents have been married 40 years or more. But what binds them most is their commitment to health and well-being.

“We make a conscious choice every day to be happy,” said Meghan.

“If we don’t, we ask what we can do about it. I don’t think there’s been a single day that I’ve known Josh where either of us wakes up and says, ‘today’s gonna suck.’”

That’s not to say that their lives are completely stress-free. Josh’s

THE THIRD METRIC mother and Meghan’s father have had cancer in recent years. And their unpredictable income can be a strain — especially as they contemplate starting a family. “We both sometimes say, it would be nice to know what you get paid every other week,” said Meghan. Adds Josh: “I have similar worries, but I feel like we’ll figure it out.”

Josh’s more laid-back approach

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would be fun to live in a place that’s sunny” in winter, said Meghan, “where you can get organic food, and there’s great yoga and surfing and bike trails.”

Since Meghan’s business is online, and Josh works with most of his clients remotely, they can continue their jobs. Josh calls it their “pre-tirement,” and the couple agree that they feel no guilt about

“ We make healthy living a priority, whether it’s [sex] or going to yoga or going for a walk or going to the gym. Those are the non-negotiables.” helps Meghan avoid becoming overwhelmed. “Josh does a lot of work with his clients helping them manage their stress. He does a really good job helping me put things in perspective,” said Meghan. “We balance out very well.”

But more than anything, it’s their lifestyle that keeps their stress levels low. “We make healthy living a priority, whether it’s [sex] or going to yoga or going for a walk or going to the gym,” said Meghan. “Those are the non-negotiables.”

In November, the couple will move to Venice Beach, Calif., for three months. “We thought it

taking it in their early 30s.

“I don’t feel it needs justifying at all,” said Meghan. “My dad went through cancer in his 60s, and that’s what forced him to retire.

Why wait for that?”

The thing no one around them seems to understand, Meghan says, is that the trip and their overall lifestyle wasn’t that difficult to establish. Josh agrees. “I think people don’t really look at what they truly want to do in life and then take the steps to see if that’s a feasible thing.

[They] just jump to conclusions — ‘oh, that’s not responsible,’ or ‘I don’t have the money to do that.’

You can pretty much do anything if you take the appropriate steps to set it up that way.”

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SARAH and JEFF

Sarah and Jeff Russell took a risk when they both quit their jobs to reset their lives.

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THE THIRD METRIC Sarah and Jeff Russell hadn’t been in the work force that long when it stopped making sense to them.

After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2006 with a degree in environmental studies, Sarah, now 28, couldn’t find a position in her field, so she worked in 9-to-5 administrative jobs. Her husband Jeff, now 30, worked as a bartender and a bouncer, a drain-

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40 hours a week regardless of what jobs actually require to get things done.” Her frustration and restlessness became even more pronounced when she and Jeff decided they were ready to have kids.

“Thinking about how we want to run a family, it isn’t two parents working two jobs running around and not having quality family time,” Sarah said. Both she and Jeff

“ If both people are stressed in their jobs, I think you bring that home. Some of that anxiety and frustration transfers to the relationship with your spouse — how could it not?” ing gig involving long, late hours with a demanding (read: drunk) clientele. Their individual unhappiness put a lot of strain on their marriage, as did the fact that they worked almost opposite schedules.

“It’s hard to connect when you only see each other in passing,” said Sarah. “If both people are stressed in their jobs, I think you bring that home. Some of that anxiety and frustration transfers to the relationship with your spouse — how could it not?”

In 2010, Sarah started to question “this model where we work

had been raised by stay-at-home moms. ”We always had it in the back of our minds that if we could do it financially, we would love to have one of us to stay at home.”

So they decided to do something radical: Quit their jobs. As Sarah described in a blog post she published in April 2012, the couple had a six-month plan to get their finances in order. They worked longer hours, paid down some debt and saved money to replace Sarah’s $36,000 salary and everything Jeff earned in tips, and also cover the cost of individual health insurance. “We knew we were taking a big risk, especially given the state of the economy

THE THIRD METRIC and the difficulty many people are having finding jobs, but we’re young and our condo payment is cheap,” she said. They had wanted a six-month emergency fund, but “both of us just hit the point where it was like, ‘We can’t do this anymore. We’ve set ourselves up as well as we can,’” Sarah wrote in the post.

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we come back together again for dinner and enjoy the evening, whether that means going out with friends or taking a walk,” said Sarah. She turns in around 11, and Jeff, still a night owl after all those years working late shifts, usually stays up until around 2, reading or playing video games.

After years of spending so little time together, it was strange at

“ We still have our own interests and our own activities, so it’s not like we’re spending so much time together that we’re bored of each other.” mediately established a successful freelance career in digital marketing, then was hired by one of her clients to work fulltime in a remote position with flexible hours.

Now Sarah wakes up around 6:30 and works through the morning, taking a break around 10 to work out. Jeff gets up around 11.

They have lunch together, and if it’s a weekday, Sarah does a few more hours of work. Their home in Madison, Wis., is a two-bedroom town-house style condo, so when she’s writing, Jeff can be on a different floor reading or handling projects around the house. “Then

first to be together all the time, but their slightly different schedules help them maintain their own space. “We still have our own interests and our own activities, so it’s not like we’re spending so much time together that we’re bored of each other,” said Sarah.

Their stress levels had never been lower, and in November 2012, Sarah got pregnant.

But it was six months later, when tragedy struck, that the changes they had made yielded their most important benefit. In April, Sarah’s pregnancy ended in stillbirth. In the aftermath, Sarah said, she and Jeff have grown even closer, but she’s not sure that would have been the case if they hadn’t quit their jobs.

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dealing with stressful jobs alongside the stress of raising a child.

I think that that’s going to be a positive thing.”

Remarkably, Sarah isn’t concerned about money, even though having a child will mean many additional expenses. Her field pays well, she said, and “because our focus isn’t on the accumulation of wealth or things, we don’t worry.

“ We aren’t dealing with stressful jobs alongside the stress of raising a child. I think that that’s going to be a positive thing.” pregnant again. Until they have kids, Jeff has gone back to work part-time in a hotel in guest services, a much healthier and lowerstress work environment than a bar. Sarah is still working remotely in the same job. Sarah says, they are working “with that same conscious attention to [the question], ‘Are these jobs giving us the freedom that we wanted originally?’”

Are they worried about the stress parenthood will likely bring or the toll it could exact on their marriage? “Yeah, for sure,” Sarah said. “Not that that would ever deter us,” she added. “We aren’t

We don’t live in a huge house, we aren’t taking expensive vacations, our car isn’t new. We’ve deliberately chosen to simplify our lives.”

Distilling out what wasn’t important has in turn strengthened their marriage. “To not bring home a ton of stress has been wonderful in terms of our ability to communicate, our sex life, all of it. When you’re not carrying around a bunch of frustration, that automatically puts you in a better mood and carries over into the relationship that you have with your partner,” said Sarah. “We’re a lot closer as a result.”

Margaret Wheeler Johnson is a senior lifestyle editor of The Huffington Post.

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ESPITE VALIANT efforts made by parents, toy creators and — even kids themselves — to convince brands to produce gender-neutral toys, the divide between “boy” and “girl” products remains vast.

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relegated to boy land, pink stuff and dolls are in the girl aisle and, more often than not, the dolls are increasingly feminized. They are thin, with large eyes, long lashes and provocative clothing. However, these characters — some iconic — weren’t always so sassy.

Once upon a time, Strawberry

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Perhaps the most shocking transformation is that of My Little Pony, a toy that was introduced 30 years ago and has been revamped several times since. Most recently, Hasbro introduced “Equestria Girls,” dolls that are pony-girl hybrids (think “goth” Barbies with blue or green skin and a colorful ponytail) along with a special DVD released on Aug. 6, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Per a press release, the humanized figures are supposed to represent My Little Pony characters as teenage girls in high school.

The release goes on to describe these characters with words like “glamour,” “stylish,” “ultrachic,” and it is noted that each doll features her own signature “cutie splash,” an individual design that is similar to the “cutie mark” on her pony alter ego.

But did the beloved Little Pony really need to become all of these

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The brand’s message is, ‘Okay, girls, let your freak flag fly! You’re free to be you no matter what! As long as ‘you’ is a fashion-loving, boy-chasing very thin teenager with the facial features of a cast member from Pretty Little Liars.” things? John A. Frascotti, Hasbro’s chief marketing officer, says yes. “We are responding to the desire by our fans to experience the brand in more ways,” he told The New York Times.

Author Peggy Orenstein — whose book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, sparked a national conversation about how “princess culture” affects young girls — has a different answer. Orenstein pointed out, in an e-mail to The Huffington Post, that the Equestria Girls are necessary from a business perspective if Hasbro wants to compete with similar toys in the market. However, she notes: It’s up to parents and those who give a hang about girls actual development and well-being to say absolutely neigh. You want a sexualized, self-objectifying girl? Give her sexualized, objectified dolls. You don’t? Have some conversations with the

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Meanwhile, Hasbro competitor Mattel announced last month that sales for Barbie have continued to take a nosedive. Who’s edging out the iconic doll? Mattel’s own vampy teen Monster High dolls — aka the “goth” Barbie.

The trend is marketed as an edgier alternative to typically girly dolls: among the “goth” Barbies are the dark-haired Draculaura, blue-skinned zombie Ghoulia and werewolf Clawdeen. These toys, companies brag, represent diversity. “The message about the brand is really to celebrate your own freaky flaws, especially as bullying has become such a hot topic,” Cathy Cline, Mattel’s vice president of marketing, told NPR. However, as Callie Beusman counters in an op-ed for Jezebel, the Monster High dolls aren’t all

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Trolls used to be, well, trolls — not ‘Trollz,’ their sexy, slim, smooth-haired doppelgängers.” that different from Barbie. The “brand doesn’t really encourage individuality at all,” she says, pointing to the dolls’ “disturbing obsession with body image”: A quick look at the “Students” section of the Monster High website makes it pretty clear that the brand’s message is, “Okay, girls, let your freak flag fly! You’re free to be you no matter what! As long as ‘you’ is a fashion-loving, boy-chasing very thin teenager with the facial features of a cast member from Pretty Little Liars.

The ‘freaky’ part is that, instead of having white skin, you can have the coloration of any pastel hue on the visible light spectrum.” Diversity!

Hasbro’s pony-turned-girl hybrid evolution is just a more glaring example of a culture that appears to be deepening its own body image issues in ever weirder ways.

Jessica Samakow is the associate editor of HuffPost Parents.

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It’s a question Charlie Rose, a man used to asking the questions, has been getting a lot lately.

With Charlie Rose: The Week, the late-night interviewer recently expanded his television repertoire from three programs to four, sparking understandable curiosity about whether and when he gets himself to bed.

Rather than cultivating a sense of mystery around his demanding schedule — which also includes Charlie Rose, CBS This Morning and Person to Person — the 71-yearold Rose has been forthcoming

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“I take two naps a day,” he told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month, “simply because it makes me feel more efficient.”

For Rose, who said he started napping in law school, the short rests reflect part of a time-management philosophy. “If the choice for me is 30 minutes of more preparation for an interview or a 30-minute nap, I’ll take the nap,” he said.

Rose’s sleep schedule — and that of his audience — have been matters of public interest for some time. A People profile from 1986, noting that “hard-core insomniacs” made up a significant portion of his viewers, reported Rose found time for four to five hours of sleep a night. Due in large part to the late-night airtime of Charlie Rose, his work has long been associated with sleep or sleeplessness.

And earlier this month, while technically plugging his new show to a group of television reporters, Rose squeezed in some nap evangelizing while sharing details of his current daily schedule.

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As The Wrap put it: He goes to sleep each night by 11, wakes up at 5, arrives at CBS at 6, does “CBS This Morning” from 7 to 9, and plans the next day’s show after that. At 10:30, he exercises and takes his first nap.

Then it’s on to his other shows.

In various interviews, Rose has said he gets six or seven hours of sleep a night — and that’s before factoring in his naps. He hasn’t disclosed further details — for in-

If the choice for me is 30 minutes of more preparation for an interview or a 30-minute nap, I’ll take the nap.” stance, the duration of his naps, or his ideal napping conditions.

But Rose seems perfectly at ease with the subject, and even eager to be known as a committed napper.

“I do primers on naps,” he joked to Deadline Hollywood.

And as he told The Hollywood Reporter, “I can’t wait to see the Google search for ‘Charlie Rose’ and ‘naps.’”

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Is High-End Butter Really Worth the Extra Cents?

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varying price points and supposed qualities completely blind, each spread on the same plain, water table cracker. It turns out our tasters did tend to prefer a more expensive butter over the cheaper ones, but our overall favorite in this test was only the second most expensive.

We also agreed the winning butter isn’t one we’d want to cook with (we’d rather enjoy on bread, radishes, etc.), because its texture was what won us over. Check out how the butters fared, and let us know what your go-to butter is!

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