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contents
news
8
WHAT’S ON
The hottest happenings around town
10
NEW & NOTABLE
Have you heard about these?
12
FESTIVE FINDS
Top picks for Christmas
14
GIVING GREAT GIFTS
Suggestions for Santa
16 SAVVY SHOPPERS KNOW…
Find goodies everyone will love
18 MOVING, GROOVING & LEARNING
Fun ways to boost their skills
20 ARTS & SMARTS
Cool crafts and language lessons
22
CHARITY SPOTLIGHT
Hongkongers making a difference
advice
24
RATED PG
I can’t avoid it any longer. It’s time to have
the sex talk, writes Orla Breeze.
26
SLUMBER’S UP
Growing numbers of young people are
suffering sleep problems that are seriously
hampering academic performance and
emotional stability. Experts warn digital
technology is partly to blame.
28
AN AMERICAN EDUCATION
Going to college in the United States can
be an intensely enriching, exciting four-year
educational experience. We explain how
the admissions process works.
resources
30
WELL RED
For Christmas, for Chinese New Year… red
is a colour of celebration!
32
TOY BOX
Toys for the older set
34
BOOKSHELF
Perfect picks for your young adult readers
128 STOCKISTS
See something you like? We’ll tell you
where to get it.
Well Red
pg 30
Photography
Melanie Adamson Photography
Model
Madeleine
Clothes
Madeleine
wears check shirt, $499,
Gap; grey long-sleeve t-shirt, $949,
Bonpoint.
BEATING
THE BULLIES
68
GET WEB-WISE
Bookshelf
pg 34
Toy Box
pg 32
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