Shopping for Trays

What’s the hardest-working accessory in your home? Chances are, it’s a tray — whether you use it for ferrying drinks to friends, framing a decorative vignette or corralling mail by the front door. “We use trays for a lot of different things,” said Krista Schrock, a principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Disc Interiors. Sure,…

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The Health Benefits of Coffee

In discussing his audiobook on caffeine with Terry Gross on NPR last winter, Michael Pollan called caffeine “the enemy of good sleep” because it interferes with deep sleep. He confessed that after the challenging task of weaning himself from coffee, he “was sleeping like a teenager again.” Dr. Willett, now 75, said, “You don’t have…

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