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...quirky boutique Flux, www.get2flux.co.uk. Green shoppers will like her selection of Fair Trade jewelry, goods fashioned from recycled materials and handmade British crafts. Over at Georgian Antiques, www.georgianantiques.net, visitors can browse a 50,000-sq.-ft. (460 sq m) space - one of the largest antiques stores in Scotland - and pick up everything from a 19th century mahogany chiffonier to an early 20th century hall lantern with beveled glass. More modern but equally pricey artifacts are on display at Leith Gallery, www.the-leith-gallery.co.uk, where director Jan Morrison showcases the work of both young and established Scottish contemporary artists...
...Know You Can Dance Can the inhibition, crank up the music and shake, bounce and move it. Pick a style, fake it or make one up. And yes, air guitar counts. The beauty of dance, says Yale's Katz, is that it often appeals to kids who say no to conventional exercise...
...Play to Your Strength Perhaps the fastest way to send a message about who you are is to pick someone who appears to be ... just like you. In 1992, Bill Clinton picked another Southern baby boomer with a moderate record and a full head of hair. Then Clinton, Al Gore and their wives took a bus trip that looked like a rolling scene from The Big Chill. Picking Gore reinforced Clinton's claim to be part of a new generation of Democratic pols, liberated from the tired (and losing) politics of the past...
...McCain were to take a similar approach, he might pick a No. 2 who has strong national-security credentials or another maverick who defies party labels - perhaps someone like independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. By this standard, Obama might opt for a partner who is young and charismatic and also breaks a historic barrier of race or gender - perhaps Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius - or one who transcends partisan politics, like Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...sidekick who is more comfortable than McCain is with economic policy. It may well turn out to be someone about whom the conservative base, which is a little leery of McCain, is more enthusiastic. Some possibilities the two might want to consider as hedges against their shortcomings: McCain could pick Romney or Pawlenty, both of whom have executive experience and relative youth, or perhaps an economic-policy expert like former Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, who served as both budget chief and trade representative for Bush...