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• 3 arthritis pain drugs prove equally safe for the heart

  13-11-2016 22:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - A new study gives some reassurance to arthritis sufferers who want pain relief but are worried about side effects. It finds that Celebrex, a drug similar to ones withdrawn 12 years ago for safety reasons, is no riskier for the heart than some other prescription pain pills that are...
  
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• It's not all in the genes: Clean living can cut heart risks

  13-11-2016 22:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - Clean living can slash your risk for heart disease even if your genes are heavily stacked against you. A large study finds that people with the most inherited risk cut their chances of having a heart attack or other heart problems in half if they didn't smoke, ate well, exercised...
  
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• The Eight Most Amazing Golf Courses in New Zealand

  13-11-2016 21:00
  
  Great new courses and a few classics are making this long-overlooked golf destination a must-visit…James A. Frank
  
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• Clone of New Zealand’s Great Eight

  13-11-2016 21:00
  
  Great new courses and a few classics are making this long-overlooked golf destination a must-visit…James A. Frank
  
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• Striking New Pearl Jewelry

  13-11-2016 17:00
  
  Pearls are given a modern makeover in fresh new jewelry designs…Jill Newman
  
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• Anyone for a tiramisu latte? The worst high-street Christmas menus of 2016

  13-11-2016 16:30
  
  The unveiling of seasonal food and drink at coffee shops is a modern tradition up there with the John Lewis ad. So, what concoctions have Starbucks, Costa and co created this year?Nowhere have the tentacles of the ever-swelling Christmas blob made more gains in recent years than on the seasonal menus of high-street food chains. Starbucks releasing its annual Christmas cup is now up there with the John Lewis ad and poppy controversy as a harbinger of yuletide. This year, it was even subject to an
  
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• Live in Harmony with a Tree

  13-11-2016 16:00
  
  Vietnam is experiencing more rapid urbanization than ever,  quickly turning from a tropical jungle to a fast-paced cityscape. In Ho Chi Minh City, where this project is located, only .25% of the entire urban area is devoted to green space. Lack of trees are tied to a variety of issues, from flash flooding to soil instability to air pollution, not to mention a more mundane landscape of concrete and asphalt. Vo Trong Nghia Architects have an unusual solution for this expanding problem:&n
  
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• How To Know If You’re Ready To List Your Home

  13-11-2016 15:00
  
  Image: Chris SnookEven the happiest of homeowners sometimes find themselves wishing for a better option. When you spend hours each week maintaining a sprawling lawn or have to trip through a living room littered with the kids’ toys, it’s easy to dream of listing your current property and purchasing a new home.When the idea to list their home starts to become serious, many people find that the decision is much harder than they anticipated. Listing a home (and subsequently finding a ne
  
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• The world’s safest bed for baby?

  13-11-2016 08:30
  
  The Snoo, a smart cot with built-in soothing sensors, and microphones to detect crying, is one for the sleep-deprived baby… and its parentsTo the uninformed viewer it has a touch of the straitjacket about it, but according to its makers this “smart crib” is based on sound paediatric advice. Called a Snoo, the cot is a collaboration between Yves Behar, the designer of Jawbone, a wristband that tracks movement and sleep, and Dr Harvey Karp, an LA paediatrician and the autho
  
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• Why certain songs get stuck in your head

  13-11-2016 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey. Katy Perry’s California Gurls.Sorry if you spend the rest of the day with the words “Just a small-town girl/living in a lonely world” or “Ra ra ah-ah-ah/Ro ma ro-mah-mah” running an endless...
  
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• The rainbow of religious belief: extremist thinking doesn’t work

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality
  ‘SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.’ That slogan was posted on London buses in 2012. It was aimed at some Christian groups who understood human sexuality not as a spectrum of many shades but as a stark choice between right and wrong, the permitted and the forbidden.Many of us are prone to this kind of binary reductionism, but it is amplified and exaggerated by religion, because its favourite discours
  
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• The night Freddie Mercury chatted me up in Heaven

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  It’s 1983, London’s gay club scene is pulsating and Mark Langthorne is working at one of the capital’s most infamous bars, when he finds himself alone with the Queen frontman…I was 21 years old, and had been in London for almost a year. I wanted to be a playwright. By night I worked as a barman in the notorious Cellar Bar, a gay leather bar which was part of the nightclub Heaven. It was 1983. The dress code at the Cellar Bar was really strict, no exceptions. We would dre
  
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• The M25 cat killer’s real target is our own soft underbellies

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  The creepy sadist who has now tortured and killed at least 170 cats is forcing us to confront just how vulnerable we areThe cat killer has struck again. It’s a year since the first body was found, head, tail and organs removed, body placed in its owner’s driveway overnight. They called him the Croydon cat killer, but 100 bodies later he’s been renamed to encompass the entire M25, murdering up to six cats a week across London, with beheaded corpses also found in Nottingham, Shef
  
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• Raleigh Chopper: bike review | Martin Love

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  The 70s classic is back. Climb aboard and relive your youth - or buy one for your child to show them what a cool set of wheels really looks likeThere are very few bikes that make you sigh. And, with its perfect combination of wistful nostalgia and retro hotness, the Chopper is one. Back in the 70s, Raleigh made more than 1m of them – unleashing a tsunami of easy riders across suburbia. Now it’s back and the Nottingham-based firm has created this limited-edition version. It’s in
  
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• Margot, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  There’s a new high-end Italian place in Covent Garden, where the waiters wear DJs and the customers swoonMargot, 45 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AA (020 3409 4777). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £140You can smell the money at Margot: both the cash that has been spent on opening it and the cash that will now be spent inside. There are fat leather banquettes in the shade of deep grey favoured for suits by Gieves & Hawkes. There are details picked out in copper and
  
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• 70s dinner party food: If only we’d had Instagram back then

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  They call the 1970s the decade taste forgot. But that’s unfair – no one could forget these dishesI grew up in a house where no celebration was complete without a platter of greying boiled eggs stuffed with salad cream. The crockery was heavy and brown and the air was always thick with fag smoke.I guess loads of people who grew up in the 70s or early 80s remember a similar sort of set-up. And mine was worse than most given that my dad was from Hungary – a land where it will fore
  
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• 23 Top Spirits Releases

  13-11-2016 02:00
  
  The latest and greatest whiskies, scotch, gins, bourbons, ryes, Cognacs, and more…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• See the Best in Intergalactic Fashion with Ritz-Carlton, Denver’s Star Wars Offer

  13-11-2016 00:00
  
  Darth Vader
  The package includes VIP access to the new Star Wars–themed exhibit at the Denver Art Museum… Viju Mathew
  
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