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sipping their morning coffee at
leisure.
Some of the best morning coffee
options come from Starbuck's, which
has a number of charmingly pack-
-zed holiday gifts ready to go. One is
the Proteo Barista espresso maker,
which pops out a neat two shots of
espresso and steams the milk.
Or for that little stocking stuffer,
the Holiday Canister is filled with 16
ounces of Starbuck's eagerly antici-
pated annual Holiday Blend coffee.
To improve the taste of that
morning coffee and eliminate the
hassle of buying bottled water, the
Teledyne Water Pik Faucet Filter
reduces lead, chlorine, bad taste and
odor. This small, compact device fits
on any faucet, and the built-in selec-
tor extends filter cartridge life by let-
ting you choose between filtered and
unfiltered water.

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Luxury gifts
to feather your
nest.

And what could be lovelier than
breakfast on the patio, or lunch or
dinner for that matter? One of the
chost popular new enhancements for
those who enjoy the pool and patio
life is wireless speakers. These
indoor-outdoor speakers won't inter-
fere with cordless phones.
Home entertainment centers
are growing increasingly sophisticat-
ed. One way to get a grip on them is
with a universal remote control.
They can be programmed to control
almost everything in the house.
I Sony's Big Screen for Small Rooms is
big-screen entertainment in a 41-
inch tabletop TV, with a minimum
viewing distance reduced to five feet
and a cabinet depth no deeper than a
32-inch television.
For nontechnical home entertain-
ment, there's nothing like books,
ames and puzzles. Scrosswords and
Kinesis are award winning games
from Word Origin, a hip San
Francisco Company.
Scrosswords is a fast-action,
boardless word game where everyone
plays at once, using dice and letter

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tiles to form as many words as possi-
ble in crossword-style fashion before
the timer runs out.
Kinesis is a challenging, strategic
board game with the fast forward
movement of checkers, the complexi-
ty of backgammon and the intensity
of Go. Kinesis is a Mensa Select
game, which along with Scrosswords
made the list of Top 100 Games
named in Games Magazine.
Word Origin also offers puzzles,
called PaGuzzles because they are a
game and puzzle in one. To order
call (800) 832-5624.
For the home bookworm, fill a can-
vas tote with a signed first edition of a
special book, reference books; beach
novels, a subscription to the New York
Review of Books or the New York Times
Book Review, a tiny book light for
reading in the dark and a handful of
bookmarks. Or give them a book
you've made yourselfjust for them. It
could include quotes and snippets
from the Oxford Book of Quotations
that touch on their interests, quirks
and personality. Or simply provide
them with an assortment of blank
books they can fill with poetry, diaries
and thoughts as they wish.
And no home has enough luxurious
consumables like a case of champagne,
a white winter truffle, a tin of good
Beluga caviar, a big bouquet of fresh
cut flowers, vintage port or boxes of
beeswax candles. Or give a long party
tape of 20 music favorites or a flatter-
ing picture in a beautiful frame.
Think about what your family and
friends really want to do that they just
haven't gotten around to a doing?
Making a garden perhaps? Start them
off with a box of seedlings, a pair of
gloves and the Smith & Hawken cata-
log. For your friend who's working 90-
hour weeks, stock their freezer with
some of your best homemade soup or
spaghetti sauce. Or send a massage
therapist to make a house call at the
end of the week.
For the home office, the JVC pre-
miere Executive Desktop Stereo
FS2000 is a portable 9.3 pounds and
elegantly contained in bird's eye
wood-finish cabinetry. To keep
domestic details organized, Sony's
Portable IC Chip Recorder, an effec-
tive way to keep personal notes and
reminders, fits in the palm of the
hand. ❑

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