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Don't have time to decour the whole magazine right this minute? These tidbits (cribbedfrom articles in this issue) will give you a taste of what's to come.
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We're so close to unveiling our addletively fun app for the iPad. Jt will be full of the same great info you'll find in the mag plus cool extras like ani~ mated beauty how-toe, step-by-step workout videos, and a feature that reveals what's on men's minds in real time. And that's just the beginning!
Handwash your fngerle, and hang it around your house to air.<Jry ... and drive him this with lust.ItI:IZI~==~c:J Telling him this kind of story about yourse~ indicates that you're a confident free spirit. 1mIIm:c:I:I:I:CIlI:m:I:I=iB'-'!J
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• Researchers found that couples who gave each other affection in public reported having more satisfying relationships than those who didn't. P. 126 • Chris Rock recently kept a pregnant woman calm when she went into labor at a mall. P. 117 • According to a new study, you're more likely to dress sexier around the time of ovulation. P.158
~ you already follow Cosmo on Twitter, then you have to check out your feed at 11 :30 tonight. We recently debuted a feature called #Cosmo TwitterAfterDark, where we share baci-girls-Dnly tips and link you to stories so sexy that we can Tweet about them only after hours. Not following us yet? Find us at@CosmoOnline this instant.
that's scientifically prove.n to make him want you: Tilt your head down slightly (so your chin !isdoser to your neck), then look up at him. It appeals to a man's reprodudive instin.cts, since your jaw looks smaller and your eyes seem bigger, which suggests fertility. P.70
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unenlightened of me. Was I yanking the evolution of female sexual empowerment back to the age of foot binding? I gave it some thought and replied to the woman, "They make me feel powerful." We are at our sexiest when we feel the most confident. "Ve are at our least attractive when we are sure of our inadequacies and practically cave in on ourselves to conceal them. No matter how incredible your lover swears you look, there is no way you're getting hot and bothered when you feel fatter than the manatee they found in the Hudson River. We all handicap ourselves with insecurity, and it's up to us to reset the self-worth scale and alter the message we send out into the world. Hollywood. There's nothing like the spotlight to bring out the quivering little insecure self you thought you ditched in high school. But you don't have to he an actress to endure negative attention. Thanks to the Internet, there now exist forums for the public to declare their locker-room judgments withou t the risk of getting busted. I've been declared too fat and too skinny on the same day hom the same photo. "Ew She is disgusting and fat. Can anyone say thunder thighs?!" And the next post: "Eat something, Skeletal'. You're gross!" It is pathetic to even have read these things, but before you learn the hard way, it is nearly impossible not to check out what's scrawled about you on the bathroom walls. But if! let this nonsense cl'eep into my psyche, I'll he ruined by it and therefore about as sexually empowered as a deflated blow-up doll.
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He was calling to thank me for traveling to Iowa in October 2007 to volunteer for the campaign. I was very professional. the whole time we spoke, then I hung up the phone-or so I thought-and started squealing for about 15 seconds. I later found out from a friend who was with him that he listened to the shrieking and laughed the entire time.
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I liked the strong female characters. Neither of them is a damsel or overly sexualized bei you often see in that type of film. was naive but self-assured. And in Aliens, my character, Ella, is mysterious and very resilient. Both able to hold against men and were
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They have to have a sense of humor and humility. You really have to have a sense of humor; it's so important. When I think of guys like Daniel Craig and Garrett Hedlund, what's made them so great is their ability to seem extraordinary but also relatable.
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"My coworker and I were assigned a big project, but he was a total slacker, so I ended up doing everything myself. As fate would have it. the day we were supposed to give a presentation about the project. I got a frantic text from him saying his car was on the fritz and asking me to stall our boss since problem!' Ithen walked to the conference , . he'd be 30 minutes late. I wrote back, 'No but Ifigured I'd just gotten mixed up, so we continued. Later, I asked her what it was like to be a teacher ..She said, 'I'm a lawyer~ I then asked if she was Sarah, and she asked if I was Jack. Turns out, we were on the wrong blind dates and had no clue since we had never introduced ourselves. When I got home, I had an irate e-mail from my real dete=who other girl-asking had seen me with the
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't returned from a study-abroad program in France, so right before our date, I went to the bookstore and bought French poetry books. When we talked about her trip, I said how into French lit I was and that I had a few books in my collection at home if she wanted to check them out .... She did." -Stefan, 22
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