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Pulse: Affairs: Forced Labor

Being a city contractor is hard work. You have to spend hours on RFQs and RFPs. You have to hire the right lawyers. And under […]

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In Search Of The Perfect Bloody Mary

Photo by damonabnormal Joey Sweeney has been searching for Philadelphia’s best Bloody Mary for three years. He says he’s finally found it. And it was […]

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Top Doctors 2008

CLICK HERE TO SEARCH OUR CURRENT TOP DOCTORS LIST! Our most comprehensive survey of local health care ever, with hundreds of the best doctors in […]

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Health: Recess for Big Kids

Finding a way to escape the treadmill and get your cardio kicks outside just got a whole lot easier. Registration is now open for Philadelphia-area […]

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Tonight

We have no real idea how to pronounce the name but we understand that FARMiCiA has a no corkage fee BYOB policy tonight and every […]

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Feature: Above Par: The 25 Best Local Golf Instructors

Harry HammondPenn Oaks Golf Club, 150 Penn Oaks Drive, West Chester, 610-399-8898, pennoaksgolfclub.comYears Teaching: 44. Backswing: 68 years old.Started caddying at Kennett Square Country Club […]

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Top Doctors: My Daughter’s $29,000 Appendectomy

IT BEGAN THE way these things often begin. “Sarah threw up in the car!” my daughter Hannah announced brightly one evening as she and her […]

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Feature: Above Par: The Best Courses

#10: ATLANTIC CITY COUNTRY CLUBLocation: NorthfieldAccess: Semi-Private Greens Fees: $65–$225 Opened: 1897 Designer: William S. Flynn Yardage: 6,577 Par: 70 Slope: 128 Contact: 609-236-4400, accountryclub.com […]

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Howard’s Beginning

It is an odd place for an impromptu business meeting. Backstage at Thee Doll House, a Delaware Avenue "gentlemen’s club," is a kitchen, and tonight […]

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Contrarian: Flood the Courts

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Pulse: Style: Lowdown: Summer Warm-Up

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Pulse: Style: Personal Best: Eileen McDade

HOMEThe roost: A rented gatehouse on an estate in Penn Valley, found in the Main Line Times classifieds. “You know Snow White’s cottage?”Favorite room: The […]

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Pulse: Style: Ragas Report

Shop Talk: FREE SHOPMaura Coffey has done what every girl who works a summertime beach job dreams of: turned her warm-weather gig into a career. […]

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Pulse: Getaway: Wake of the Storm

The only thing you need to know for a perfect Bermuda vacation is this: You should always be close enough to the ocean to see […]

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Pulse: Health: At a Loss for Words

Last fall, four years after my sister had a malignant lump removed from her breast, she learned her cancer had spread to the bone. Fortunately, […]