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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, November 12, 2007

ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Buy a stuffed animal, protect a snow leopard

Advertiser Staff and News Services

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Need something for the greenie in the family? Kabylan, a plush snow leopard, is based on the real-life species from the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan, where just about 300 of the animals are left in the wild. For each sale of the $15 stuffed animal, Origins will donate $3 to help protect the species through UK Charity Fauna & Flora International. Ala Moana has an Origins store, or check www.origins.com.

— Advertiser Staff



KEEP IT SIMPLE



HOSTESS GIFTS JUST KEEP ON GIVING

Real Simple magazine offers this tip for the holiday season in the November issue: Buy certain hostess gifts in bulk and keep them handy all year long. The big-box stores are already hauling out the gi-normous gift baskets, one of which can easily be pulled apart to make a year's worth of hostess gifts. Just pick nonperishables, of course — baskets filled with preserves, teas and hot chocolate mixes abound.

— Advertiser Staff



FINAL WORD

"I have nothing in common with these people and everything in common with them — way more than I'm comfortable with."

Billy Baldwin, discussing his role as the politician brother in the fictional Darling clan in "Dirty Sexy Money," in TV Guide