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• Parents, daughter agree to drop college payment-tuition case

  14-02-2017 23:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey man says he and his ex-wife are working to repair their relationship with their 23-year-old daughter after a state appeals court ruled the parents cannot be forced to pay her college tuition.Michael Ricci told The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2lLWusm) on
  
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• 5 Haute Sauces to Set Your Heart Afire

  14-02-2017 23:00
  
  These chef-made hot sauces will add a tingle to your lips and a rush of heat to your heart…Victoria Abbott Riccardi
  
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• No designer babies, but gene editing to avoid disease? Maybe

  14-02-2017 22:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Don't expect designer babies any time soon — but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely edit genes inside living cells.What's called genome editing
  
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• Couples marry on Valentine's Day atop a New York City landmark

  14-02-2017 22:33
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Love was in the air atop the Empire State Building on Tuesday as two couples got married and one couple renewed their vows on Valentine's Day, the only day of the year when...
  
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• Revised US tally: HIV infections fell 18 per cent in 6 years

  14-02-2017 22:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - New calculations to better track HIV infections confirm that the U.S. is seeing a strong and steady decline.The number of new cases has been falling for years. But health officials wanted a clearer picture of how the epidemic was behaving. They count people when they were diagnosed
  
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• Scientific committee draws line at using gene editing to create designer babies

  14-02-2017 22:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Genome editing, a powerful technology that allows researchers to add, remove or replace snippets of DNA from cells, should only be used for the potential treatment or prevention of serious diseases and disabilities — not to produce "designer babies" with traits that could be passed on...
  
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• Food banks growing own food - even farming fish - as donations decline

  14-02-2017 21:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - In a bid to make up for a shortfall of high-quality nutritious food, some Canadian food banks are growing their own produce — and even farming fish.The Mississauga Food Bank recently launched AquaGrow Farms, where tilapia is being raised in tanks and lettuce is raised through
  
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• Ethicists open to one day altering heredity to fight disease

  14-02-2017 20:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Don't expect designer babies any time soon — but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely edit genes inside living cells.What's called genome editing...
  
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• 7 Red Wines that Will Make Your Heart Skip a Beat

  14-02-2017 20:00
  
  Seductive red wines sure to sweep your sweetheart of her (or his) feet…Dan Dunn
  
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• Robb Report's 2017 Valentine's Day Guide

  14-02-2017 19:41
  
  Show your special someone how much you care this Valentine's...
  
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• What New York fashion week tells us about Trump’s US

  14-02-2017 19:22
  
  From Raf Simons’ patriotic debut for Calvin Klein to Victoria Beckham’s in-control femininity – New York has shown the world a vision of a different USFor much of last year, the fashion industry’s most contentious issue was whether to move to a See Now Buy Now model, in which February’s shows would showcase spring fashion, rather than autumn. What innocent days those seem now. By the time this New York fashion week started, there was only one timestamp that mattered
  
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• Donald Trump's unusual greetings shed light on the art of the handshake

  14-02-2017 19:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - When is a handshake more than a handshake? Any time it involves the unpredictable U.S. President Donald Trump, who has turned the simple social convention into a highly analyzed and debated spectator sport.A handful of odd greetings, including a relatively tame one with Prime Minister...
  
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• QUIZ: What Kind of Luxe Lover Are You?

  14-02-2017 19:00
  
  Are you a flashy flaunter or a stoic softy?Bekah Berge
  
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• Armyworm invasion threatening southern Africa's crops

  14-02-2017 18:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HARARE, Zimbabwe - An invasion of armyworms is stripping southern Africa of key food crops and could spread to other parts of the continent, experts warned Tuesday at an emergency meeting of 16 African nations.South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are among the countries where the fall
  
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• From sea to plate: how plastic got into our fish

  14-02-2017 18:04
  
  Eight million tonnes of waste plastic ends up in the sea each year. Fish eat it - and then we do. How bad is it for us?It’s enough to make you cry over your moules frites. Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium recently calculated that shellfish lovers are eating up to 11,000 plastic fragments in their seafood each year. We absorb fewer than 1%, but they will still accumulate in the body over time. The findings affect all Europeans, but, as the most voracious consumers of mussels, the B
  
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• Underwater photographer of the year 2017 winners – in pictures

  14-02-2017 17:42
  
  French photographer Gabriel Barathieu has been named this year’s winner for his ‘balletic, malevolent’ dancing octopus, while British winner Nick Blake captured a lone diver among the otherworldly sunbeams of a Mexican cave Continue reading...
  
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• 71st Valentine's Day for Auschwitz survivor, soldier she met

  14-02-2017 17:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - She is a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp. He is a former Scottish commando who was on the scene when the Nazis fell.They met at a dance shortly after surviving prisoners were freed from the horrific Nazi death camp and have been celebrating Valentine's Day together since 1946.So...
  
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• Lust for life: why sex is better in your 80s

  14-02-2017 17:14
  
  Sexually active older people are considered a curiosity, but a new survey suggests that lovemaking is often more fulfilling for ‘sexual survivors’ than those in middle ageDr David Lee, a research fellow at Manchester University’s School of Social Sciences, calls them “sexual survivors” – people over the age of 80 who still enjoy an active sex life. In a report written with Professor Josie Tetley, using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, he not
  
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• This Romantic Napa Red Is Named for the Man Who Wrote the Book on Love

  14-02-2017 17:00
  
  Ovid Winery
  Produced in a near perfect vintage, Ovid’s latest release of Hexameter, its poetic red blend, makes the perfect gift for lovers—or for lovers of fine wine. Brett Anderson
  
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• Penne saving: polite children secure discount at Italian restaurant

  14-02-2017 16:24
  
  Owner of wine bar in Padua hopes 5% price cut will encourage parents to rein-in children who disturb other dinersAn Italian restaurateur fed up with his customers’ lunches being interrupted by rowdy children has come up with a novel solution: a discount for well-behaved families.Antonio Ferrari, who owns a wine bar in the northern city of Padua that caters to families on Sundays, came up with the idea when he spotted a party of 11 at one of his tables, including five children sitting &ldqu
  
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• Get your home red-carpet-ready with Badgley Mischka

  14-02-2017 16:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - Design duo Mark Badgley and James Mischka, known for show-stopping red-carpet gowns, are bringing the glamour of their fashion shows to a living room near you.The designers describe their first-ever Badgley Mischka Home Collection, launching today, as "couture furniture" infused...
  
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• Simon Reeve's trip of a lifetime: 'I was on a high for weeks after my adventure'

  14-02-2017 15:32
  
  Travel author and broadcaster Simon Reeve reveals how a trip to Central Asia changed his life foreverThe 4WD slid down a steep, dusty track and crawled slowly around a precarious, towering boulder the size of a block of flats. We stopped on a gravel precipice, hopped out, and my jaw dropped as I stared into a vast, deep canyon that stretched miles in each direction and was coloured warm rust and golden by the setting sun.For me, it was a moment of transformation. I was standing on the edge of th
  
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• Cooking on Deadline: Slow-cooker Barbacoa beef tacos

  14-02-2017 15:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Barbacoa beef, or pork or lamb or goat, is by definition slowly cooked meat. The word is Mexican, and originally referred to a cooking method by which parts of an animal were wrapped in leaves, and steamed and smoked simultaneously over fire.The dish came to America from Mexico by way of Texas,...
  
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• What kind of cherry tree did Washington fell? (If he did.)

  14-02-2017 15:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Washington's birthday is a good time to think about cherry trees. But rather than questioning whether George really chopped down the tree and then admitted to it, I find myself wondering what kind of a cherry it could have been.(The story, incidentally, may be apocryphal. It was reported by
  
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• Designers take a holistic approach to health-care spaces

  14-02-2017 15:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Health-care facilities can be stressful places for patients and visitors, with depressing waiting rooms, rows of uncomfortable seating, a blaring television. But designers of some medical spaces are remedying the situation.A more holistic approach includes mood-elevating colours and artwork.
  
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• Rock singer Debbie Harry crowned Style Icon at Elle Style Awards

  14-02-2017 14:59
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Debbie Harry, frontwoman of rock band Blondie, was crowned a fashion icon at London's Elle Style Awards, and she thanked her punk influences for defining her style.
  
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• Nigel Slater’s broth, greens and barley

  14-02-2017 13:00
  
  A hearty, meaty, grain and greens dish for a cold dayRemove any juicy pieces of meat from the bones of the Sunday roast (pork, lamb, chicken, whatever) and reserve. Put the bones into a large pot, pour in enough water to come two-thirds of the way up the pan then bring to the boil. Add 1 onion, halved, 8 black peppercorns, 1 tsp of coriander seeds, a carrot or two, a stick of celery, a couple of bay leaves and 3 star anise flowers. Turn the heat down so the liquid bubbles calmly and partially co
  
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• Step up: 10 of the best trainers to update your look – in pictures

  14-02-2017 12:01
  
  You can never have too many trainers. The antidote to the brilliant-white sneaker trend that has dominated past seasons is to opt for a multicoloured pair – if that’s a step too far then there are enough block colours on the market.Here are some of the best new releases that will stop your need for on-the-go trainer wipes Continue reading...
  
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• Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back

  14-02-2017 11:00
  
  On New Year’s Eve, I found myself lying half naked on the frozen Mississippi river in a dog park. Share your stories of failed romance in the commentsSearch “proposal fails” on Google and you get thousands of results with headlines like “10 Marriage Proposal FAILS” and “Top 10 rejected proposal of all time”. Men popping the question on jumbotrons are a favorite of the genre: the public humiliation of some clueless guy rejected in front of thousands, and
  
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• Inside London's 77 Diamonds workshop – in pictures

  14-02-2017 10:15
  
  77 Diamonds is a business set up to cater for the changing consumer habits of a generation whose love-life is decided by a swipe of their phone. The company, based in a workshop up a scruffy narrow staircase behind a restaurant in central London, has caused a bit of a stir in the UK’s diamond industry by undercutting bigger players and removing the need for personal consultations instore Continue reading...
  
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• NBA All-Star game spotlights LGBT oasis in the South

  14-02-2017 09:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS - The city hosting this year's NBA All-Star game has long enjoyed a reputation as a welcoming place for the gay and lesbian community. New Orleans is home to one of the country's oldest gay bars, the gay celebration Southern Decadence draws nearly 200,000 people yearly, and gay and...
  
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• What happens in your brain when you fall in love? – video

  14-02-2017 09:00
  
  Butterflies in your stomach or neurotransmitters on overdrive – science suggests there’s more to romance than our Valentine’s cards would have us believe. So, what’s dopamine got to do with it? Continue reading...
  
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• Australia, Indonesia making joint effort to protect WW2 wreck

  14-02-2017 08:37
  
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia and Indonesia are sending divers to inspect the wreck of a warship torpedoed off the coast of Java during World War Two next month to determine how best to protect the...
  
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• Binge of guilt

  14-02-2017 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Yes, of course, today’s the day for flowers and bonbons and delivered-by-the-dozen floral declarations of love.But beyond all the predictable Hallmark-hued heralding of eternal devotion, here’s a slightly darker Valentine’s Day question: Do you “cheat” on your
  
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• The rules of roses

  14-02-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Before Emily West became famous as a competitor (and later runner-up) in the 2014 season of America’s Got Talent, she was already a Nashville legend. I had the biggest crush on her and so, apropos of nothing and without introduction, I brought a dozen white roses to a show she was playing
  
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• Dogs ride off into the sunset

  14-02-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  On the weekend, my longtime pal and newsroom next-door neighbour Doug Speirs went to see A Dog’s Purpose, that wagging tale of a fantasy flick about a dog that dies and keeps on being reincarnated.But by Monday morning, when I saw him at work, Doug was facing reality. It was that dilemma
  
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• Ice climbing: Part adrenaline rush, part puzzle-solving test

  14-02-2017 07:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HART'S LOCATION, N.H. - Ice climbing is part adrenaline rush, part puzzle-solving test.That's the way Chuck Monjak, of Medford, Massachusetts, described it after circumventing an obstacle while learning to ice climb on Frankenstein Cliff in New Hampshire's Crawford Notch State Park.The cliff...
  
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• Philipp Plein hits town, Oscar de la Renta, Monse team up

  14-02-2017 06:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Philipp Plein promised something different for his first turn at New York Fashion Week and delivered with a huge crowd packed into the monolithic main branch of the public library, live music courtesy of Nas and The Kills — and Madonna turning up last minute on his front row.Dynamic
  
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• Rumor has it: German shepherd scores at Westminster dog show

  14-02-2017 06:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - She's no longer a Rumor at America's top dog show.A German shepherd called Rumor who just missed winning at the Westminster Kennel Club last year came back to score a big victory Monday night, beating out favoured Preston the puli in the herding group.To the cheers of the crowd at
  
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• Elkhound, pekingese among first-day winners at Westminster dog show

  14-02-2017 05:58
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Norwegian elkhound, a pekingese, a miniature poodle and a German shepherd became the first four finalists at the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog show on Monday, the opening...
  
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• Multivitamins a waste of money and just create 'very expensive urine'

  14-02-2017 05:50
  
  Australian Medical Association president says there is a lack of evidence showing multivitamins workVitamins are useful for treating specific deficiencies but most people who use multivitamins just have very expensive urine, the Australian Medical Association president, Michael Gannon, says.Seven out of every 10 Australians take some form of vitamin or supplement but experts have questioned their efficacy and the shelf space they dominate in pharmacies. Continue reading...
  
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• Crystal Cruises Launches Its First Private Jet Voyage

  14-02-2017 05:34
  
  Crystal AirCruisesThe cruise line is on mission to push the boundaries of luxury travel…Amanda Millin
  
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• Festival Napa Valley Promises to Be a Symphony for the Senses

  14-02-2017 04:01
  
  Conductor Joel Revzen and the Festival Orchestra Napa
  During the 10-day celebration of the arts, performers will range from Joshua Bell to Bill Murray…Viju Mathew
  
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• The Perfect Pairs: His and Her Watches for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2017 04:00
  
  Share your love of horology with your partner with a couple of watches you can wear together…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Bull-taming tradition resumes in southern Indian state

  14-02-2017 03:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ALLANGANALLUR, India - In the darkness just before dawn, the southern Indian town buzzed with excitement and energy as revelers began arriving for the spectacle of Jallikattu, the region's version of running with the bulls.The deeply held religious ritual had been banned in Tamil Nadu for two...
  
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• Lovely Libations Fashioned for Two

  14-02-2017 02:00
  
  These are the perfect Valentine's Day cocktails to share with your special someone…Bekah Berge
  
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• Playboy brings back nudes, a year after ditching them

  14-02-2017 01:10
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playboy magazine is returning to its roots, bringing nudes back just a year after abandoning full frontal shots of women saying they had become outdated.
  
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