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Starbucks Makes Holiday Bright With Rodarte Designs

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Designers and sisters Kate (left) and Laura Mulleavy acknowledge the audience after the Rodarte fall 2012 collection show during Fashion Week last February in New York.

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In this film publicity file image released by Fox Searchlight, Natalie Portman is shown in a scene from Black Swan. Fashionistas flipped over the film's forward-thinking ballet costumes by Rodarte, sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy.

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Originally published on Mon January 7, 2013 9:06 am

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Starbucks netted a record $13.3 billion in 2012. But it isn't immune to competition, so the global coffee seller has updated interiors, offered more products and even tapped into couture fashion.

It recently sold several items designed by the small fashion house Rodarte, including a to-go tumbler for $12.95.

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Mon January 7, 2013

Triage System Helps Colleges Treat Mentally Ill Students

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Meredith Was, a senior at the University of Virginia, heads a chapter of the mental health advocacy group Active Minds.

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Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 4:34 pm

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Miranda Dale had her first breakdown during her freshman year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday, and she hadn't left her dorm room in days.

"I honestly didn't know what to do," says Dale. "I heard rumors that at a big university you're just a number and you're not going to get through to anyone" at the university counseling center.

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A Strong Voice For Brazil's Powerful Farmers

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Katia Abreu, a senator and landholder who heads the powerful landowners bloc in Brazil's legislature, takes a look at the new plantations on her 12,000-acre farm.

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Abreu surveys the farm she owns in Tocantins state in north-central Brazil, on horseback.

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Originally published on Mon January 7, 2013 7:56 am

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In some ways, Katia Abreu is still an old-fashioned farmer, one who rides her chestnut mare, Billy Jean, to tour her farm in Tocantins state in north-central Brazil.

She glides the horse along a gravel road, which soon turns to dirt, and along fields of sorghum and corn. She has plans for more.

"Soon, we're going to produce fish and lamb," she says. "There will be soybeans and fields of tall grass for cattle. Lots of cattle."

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Mon January 7, 2013

Why Exercise May Do A Teenage Mind Good

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Members of the boys basketball team from Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska, celebrate their 2012 state championship victory. Psychological research shows that sports camaraderie improves teenagers' mental health.

By Patti Neighmond

Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 8:02 am

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It's well known that routine physical activity benefits both body and mind. And there are no age limits. Both children and adults can reap big benefits.

Now a study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, explores whether certain factors may help to explain the value of daily physical activity for adolescents' mental health.

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iPads, China: Twin Threats To Wisconsin's Paper Industry

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The Nekoosa Paper Mill was established in 1883. Its mill in Nekoosa, Wis., sits on the banks of the Wisconsin River, and is now owned by a Canadian paper company.

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Aspen trees tower overhead in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin.

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Butch Johnson saved 300 jobs in his community when he reopened Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wis.

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Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 8:11 pm

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