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Aries (March 21 - April 19) You're not comfortable when others get upset -- it makes you even more introverted than usual. But you have the strength and courage to speak up today. Staying safely in your shell is just too costly! Today's Aries Reading: Free Sample Life Path Reading

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) When jealousy rears its ugly head today, remind yourself -- or your SO -- of all the ways your resources and values are shared. It's just too complicated to untangle easily! That should make any threats to your relationship seem minor. Today's Taurus Reading: Free Sample Numerology Portrait

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) Some things you just can't know for sure until you've experienced them for yourself. You have to plunge into a situation without as much planning and forethough

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Yes, we love our smartphones. Whether it's texting, checking e-mail, playing Angry Birds, or even making the occasional phone call, our smartphones have become constant companions, and our lifelines to family, friends and the outside world.

But while they may be our favorite gadgets, they can also be the source of intense frustration. And I'm not talking about dropped calls and poor reception. I am talking about battery life - or what perhaps should more accurately be described as battery death.

It doesn't seem to matter how much battery life we have when we leave home in the morning, by lunchtime that happy green bar has turned a nasty red, and we are desperately trying to squeeze in one last e-mail before we are cut off in mid-sentence. While we have a half-day's work left ahead of us, our smartphone has decided it has had enough, leaving us scrambling for a charger and a nearby power outlet.

But while more complex features and apps undoubtedly put a strain on the too-sm

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I work, full time, from home to help support my family. There are a lot of challenges and biases unique to work at home parents, but the following inaccurate assumptions seem to affect moms in particular. I'm not saying men don't deal with the same, but society is what it is. Our culture comes with a set of infuriatingly outdated ideas and expectations that get applied liberally by the most surprising people. It's been over ten years since I started working from home, yet I still face these 7 mis-perceptions on a near daily basis. - By Ciaran Blumenfeld

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For our April issue, Chris Jones wrote a profile of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, on the occasion of Hef's sixtieth year at the helm of Playboy and eighty-seventh year on planet earth. We learned many heretofore little-known facts about Hefner, which we thought we'd share with you:

1. He has a marble fountain topped by a statue of a cherub molesting a dolphin.

2. He has a life-size cardboard cut-out stand-in of himself, smiling, in black silk pajamas, in the dining room of the Playboy Mansion.

3. He eats a bowl of Lipton chicken-noodle soup nearly every day.

4. He holds two Guiness World Records: one for being the longest-serving editor-in-chief of a magazine (going on sixty years), and the other for holding the world's largest collection of personal scrapbooks (2,643 volumes and counting).

5. He wrote an autobiography of himself in high school, School Daze, in which he refer

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Aries (March 21 - April 19) You feel that you are not being treated fairly today. If it's strictly about the numbers, then that's easy enough to prove. But if it's more personal in nature, then it's up to you to unravel -- and prove -- their motivations. Today's Aries Reading: Free Sample Extreme Makeover Tarot Reading

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) You get a bird's-eye view of the way someone else works today, and it's a real eye opener for you. It's almost as if you can see their thought process. You can learn a lot about yourself and your finances this way -- if only others were this transparent! Today's Taurus Reading: Free Sample Friends and Lovers Reading

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) You're in your bunker for the duration and nothing and no one can drag you out! That may feel s

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