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What you drink from matters. No question.

Good coffee will be ruined by a Styrofoam, waxed, or plastic vessel (and here, I include all those plastiform travel mugs distributed by SA). Water leaches toxins from petroleum-based bottles. Anything out of an aluminum can tastes like. . . .aluminum can. Chunky little Chinese bowl cups somehow make tea taste better. Wide cappuccino mugs with plenty of room for foam are a must. And decent wine glasses do improve the wine drinking experience.

To a point.

p.s. I heart these looks from the latest Go International designer, Jovovich-Hawk. These will hit Target stores on March 2 or thereabouts.

I haven't a clue how to fix most of our huge national scourges. Global warming, gang violence, reality TV. These issues are just too big and ghastly and amorphous. What's one person to do?

But hunger. Now there's a solvable problem. People are hungry, you feed them. Even tiny efforts make a difference. And every single person who has enough to eat can help.

Snubbed again, dammit! I just called the H&M store at the Mall of America to double-check, but it looks like the retailer has decided to skip Minneapolis (yet again) when it launches its massclusive line of Roberto Cavalli for H&M next week. Not that the line is covetable in the first