Pendant lights lighting that hangs from a wire or pole suspended over kitchen islands or breakfast room tables are a great way to make a statement, says Thomas Shafer, a principal of Grunsfeld Shafer Architects in Evanston, Ill.

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On a fine day, take breakfast on the secluded terrace then make the short drive to Cardigan Bay, with its miles of unspoilt coastline and Blue Flag beaches.

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When not traveling for business, I make fruit, yogurt and unsweetened soy milk smoothies for breakfast and a brown-rice and bean salad for lunch.

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We put more fruits and vegetables in our diets, again, trying to make for a colorful palate, but you'd slip some grapes in at breakfast time, and throw in an apple at lunch, and pester them about whether they actually ate the apple. (Laughter.) And then you try to balance it out with something at dinner time.

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No amount of Obama-style fixes will make a stupid culture any smarter, and remember, culture eats strategy -- and systems -- for breakfast.

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