Help your teen stay safe during graduation celebrations and summer months
Parental Involvement Pivotal for Helping Teens Make Smart Choices
     For teens, summer months bring high-school graduation parties with friends and extended curfews allowing for later nights. This time of year can also mean that teens have more free time and could face added pressure to drink alcohol. It’s important for parents to exercise their positive parenting influence and help their teens make responsible decisions.
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Serve Up Summer Fun
     Summer entertaining should be fun and easy. Whether it's a backyard cookout, a lakeside picnic or an after baseball party, it's about celebrating good times with friends and family, and not worrying about what to serve.
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Garden design tips from Better Homes and Gardens
     Great-looking garden design doesn't have to be expensive or time consuming. If you don't forget about the basics, it's easy to create a professional look like you see in gardening magazines.
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Opening your pool for the season: What you need to know
     With warm weather rapidly approaching and Memorial Day falling early this year, it is time for homeowners to think about getting their swimming pools in shape for the season. Summer is a time to enjoy warm weather and have a relaxed attitude.
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Decorating tips for tough economic times
     Sick of those saggy silk drapes? Does the trendy color you painted your walls last year now look so "last year"? Your home decor leaves you uninspired, yet the current economy makes you hesitate to spend a bundle on a total redesign.
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Easy Summer Meal Ideas
     Summer dining calls for light meals that are easy to put together yet don't skimp on flavor or good nutrition. That sounds like a tall order, but smart cooks know that dinner can be both interesting and healthful with the addition of just a few unexpected ingredients.
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My Safe Florida Home Program nears 35,000 grants
Program will continue offering free wind inspections until it reaches goal
     Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink today announced that the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program is projecting it will exceed the Florida Legislature’s goal of approving 35,000 homeowners for grants by the end of May.
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Cracking the code of sexual chemistry and attraction
     Our attraction to others may be about having the right chemistry after all. For decades, scientists have studied why humans are attracted to each other and have found that dating and mating is influenced by pheromones, powerful chemicals produced by the body.
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