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• Bill would make welfare of pets a factor in divorce cases

  01-03-2017 23:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Rhode Island lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require judges to take the best interests of domestic pets into account when deciding who gets custody in a divorce.Democratic state Rep. Charlene Lima told The Providence Journal (http://bit.ly/2lWonz7 ) on Tuesday
  
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• Gene therapy lets a French teen dodge sickle cell disease

  01-03-2017 23:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the disorder, researchers report.The first-in-the-world case is detailed in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.About 90,000
  
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• Steamed in the school caf over restrictions on lunch sharing

  01-03-2017 22:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Those lessons about sharing? At lunchtime, in Connecticut schools, they come with an asterisk.School officials in a Connecticut town are criticizing new restrictions on lunchroom "share tables," which encourage students to donate uneaten food for any classmates who may be
  
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• First step to help preserved organs survive the deep freeze

  01-03-2017 22:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue without it cracking. Now researchers are taking a first step toward that goal, using nanotechnology to create super heaters for preserved
  
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• Pepsi to lay off 80 to 100 workers, citing Philadelphia tax

  01-03-2017 21:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - Pepsi says slumping sales from Philadelphia's new sweetened-beverage tax are prompting layoffs of 80 to 100 workers at three distribution plants that serve the city.The company sent out notices Wednesday saying layoffs will occur at plants in north and south Philadelphia and in...
  
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• Virginia school board: Court should delay transgender case

  01-03-2017 21:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - The Virginia school board that wants to keep a transgender teen from using the boys' restroom at his high school is calling on the Supreme Court to delay consideration of the case to allow the Trump administration to weigh in.A delay also could allow time for Senate confirmation of
  
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• A First Look at the Range Rover Velar

  01-03-2017 21:30
  
  It’s Land Rover’s most aerodynamic and most contemporary-looking SUV ever…Miles Branman
  
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• Drake’s New Line of Suits Celebrates the Brand’s 40th Anniversary

  01-03-2017 21:00
  
  After four decades of dressing men in the finest fashions, Drake’s is stepping out of its comfort zone…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Dizzying patterns, deconstruction, celebs hit Paris runways

  01-03-2017 20:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Deconstructed clothes, blown-up prints, and dizzying pattern contrasts shook up the VIP-filled runways on Day 2 of Paris Fashion Week.Lanvin, Maison Margiela and Dries Van Noten were among those showing previews for Wednesday's fall-winter 2017 shows. Here are some highlights:LANVIN'S
  
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• You know what they say about management consultants | Letters

  01-03-2017 20:45
  
  Management consultants | La La Land | A home for recalcitrant lesbians | William Morris’s sexist dystopia | Women in sport | Rabbits for supperRegarding your editorial (Authority and reassurance are valued more than real expertise, 28 February), 45 years of public service brought me into contact with many such consultants. I would agree with the description of “someone who steals your watch to tell you the time”.
  Trefor Newman
  Newport• In La La Land, Ryan Gosling’s c
  
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• Canadian edition of U.K.'s Big Feastival launches this August in Ontario

  01-03-2017 19:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - A food and music festival conceived by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in the United Kingdom is coming to Canada this August.The Big Feastival Canada will showcase music on one stage, Canadian chefs cooking live on another, and family entertainment elsewhere.The inaugural event...
  
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• Old mould from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14,617

  01-03-2017 19:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - How much is an old, dried-out piece of mould worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin.The nearly 90-year-old swatch of mould has a rather extraordinary history: It came from the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Fleming whose revolutionary
  
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• Montana’s Yellowstone Club Debuts Luxurious New Lodge

  01-03-2017 19:30
  
  The 32,500-square-foot clubhouse includes everything from a golf simulator room to dining options to six private residences…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Montana’s Yellowstone Club Debuts Luxurious New Clubhouse

  01-03-2017 19:30
  
  The 32,500-square-foot clubhouse includes everything from a golf simulator room to dining options to six private residences…Rebekah Bell
  
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• 'I'm a little dazed,' French artist says after living in a rock

  01-03-2017 19:28
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - French artist Abraham Poincheval was freed from a block of stone in a Paris museum on Wednesday after spending seven days enclosed in it.
  
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• Crafts: Glassblowing's gotten easier for amateurs to learn

  01-03-2017 19:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BOSTON - On a chilly winter morning here, two furnaces inside the Massachusetts College of Art and Design burn at upwards of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is palpable as you enter the room, but it doesn't seem to bother a group of students working nearby.They're here learning the ancient
  
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• The Connoisseur’s Guide to Austin for SXSW

  01-03-2017 19:00
  
  Where to stay and play in Austin before, after, and during the festival…Becca Hensley
  
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• Public eating is fraught. If hotdogs at the cinema are OK, why not a bacon bap at a play?

  01-03-2017 19:00
  
  A theatre has asked its audiences not to eat during performances – but many now consider ‘leisure’ to be eating and drinking at every momentA woman next to me on the bus the other day ate a lasagne out of a cardboard box. Slithery sheets of pasta, gloopy sauce and just a small plastic fork. It was something of a struggle for her. For me, it wasn’t as bad as the smell of hot tuna on the tube or the kids who leave chicken boxes everywhere. But lasagne? Is this now considere
  
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• Noma dishwasher becomes co-owner of world-famous Danish restaurant

  01-03-2017 17:53
  
  Ali Sonko, who has worked in restaurant kitchen since 2003, gets share in business in ‘recognition of his hard work and enduring smile’A dishwasher described as the “heart and soul” of the world-class Danish restaurant Noma has been made a co-owner of the establishment he has worked in for 14 years.
  The decision to promote Ali Sonko, who has toiled in the Noma kitchen since it first opened in 2003, was announced at a party in Copenhagen to mark the restaurant’s last
  
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• Pies, pizza and potatoes: Real food takes a bow onstage

  01-03-2017 17:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - There's a new version of the frightful musical "Sweeney Todd" playing in downtown Manhattan that's undeniably meatier than most.Visitors to the Barrow Street Theatre planning to see the show about a homicidal barber whose victims are ground up into pies are being offered the chance...
  
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• Hangry in the school caf: Sharing some food is off the table

  01-03-2017 17:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Those lessons about sharing? At lunchtime, in Connecticut schools, they come with an asterisk.School officials in a Connecticut town are criticizing new restrictions on lunchroom "share tables," which encourage students to donate uneaten food for any classmates who may be
  
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• Leather and velvet take center stage at Saint Laurent Paris show

  01-03-2017 16:41
  
  (Reuters) - Scantily-clad models in tight leather mini-dresses opened Saint Laurent Paris' Autumn/Winter runway show on Tuesday, the second ready-to-wear collection from the label's new creative...
  
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• Enchiladas don't sound healthy, unless you do these tricks

  01-03-2017 16:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The weather we've been having this winter has me craving some stick-to-your ribs comfort food. Since I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, comfort food was always something Mexican or southwestern, involving tortillas, rice, beans, cheese and a tasty sauce to drown it all in. Which is a long way of
  
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• Mold used by Fleming to make penicillin sells for $14,597

  01-03-2017 15:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The international auction house Bonham's says it has sold a small, patchy disc of mould for $14,597.The off-white, nearly 90-year-old swatch of microbes has a rather extraordinary history: it was first created by Alexander Fleming to make penicillin, a revolutionary discovery that
  
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• UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread low

  01-03-2017 14:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The World Health Organization says it has noticed mutations in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily between people remains low.In a press briefing Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said in about 7 per cent of the people infected...
  
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• 'Even the specialists hadn't seen my baby's condition before'

  01-03-2017 14:37
  
  In the week of the awareness-raising campaign Rare Diseases Day, Sofya Court hopes the story of her son – born with a syndrome shared by only a few hundred people worldwide – will inspire others coping with obscure conditionsIt is 13 years since my son was born. His due date was 29 February, but he waited until the clock had tipped safely into March, guaranteeing him annual birthday parties. In the delivery room, the midwife whisked him off to be checked over: he was a good size, a h
  
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• Ifs and butts: readers' questions on orgasms answered

  01-03-2017 14:15
  
  Responding to comments below our recent story about orgasm probabilities, Mona Chalabi tackles your queries, some serious, others less so
  ‘Golden trio’ of moves boosts chances of female orgasm, say researchers If there was a time in my life when I wondered “what’s a butt?”, that time is long past. But here I am, thinking about this deeply philosophical question after one of you posted it in response to a survey at the bottom of an article on orgasm probabilities.It
  
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• With a roll of the dice and shouts of 'yalla', Jews and Arabs face off

  01-03-2017 14:08
  
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In the early evening on a backstreet in downtown Jerusalem, Arabs and Jews are milling around, preparing for battle. But this isn't a new round of Middle East violence, it's a...
  
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• Da Vinci's vino: a visit to Leonardo's vineyard in Milan

  01-03-2017 13:52
  
  While painting the Last Supper, Leonardo would retire to his small vineyard across the road. After being badly damaged in the second world war, the vines are flourishing again and the house is open to visitorsYou know how it is – after a hard day at work on a world famous fresco, all you want is somewhere peaceful to relax with a glass of wine. Thanks to his patron, Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza, this is just what Leonardo da Vinci enjoyed for several years from 1498.And today, after work
  
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• It’s poké, man: the ultimate hipster-food glossary

  01-03-2017 13:34
  
  Know your khachapuri from your Kalettes with our handy guide to the coolest, most obscure and sometimes ludicrous food trendsModern food moves at a bewildering pace. Where once, influences from star chefs would disseminate slowly and new products could take years to establish themselves, today rare ingredients and new dishes can proliferate online, globally, almost instantly. On Instagram, a coalition of food nerds – not just chefs, but (amateur) bakers, baristas, brewers and artisan produ
  
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• Kitchen gadgets review: dumpling cube – my wontons are simply wrongtons

  01-03-2017 12:43
  
  This is a soulless, log effect-fire of pastry technique, but I have to admit – 672 pork parcels later and I am still enjoying myself Continue reading...
  
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• Will it ever be possible for humans to recreate the big bang?

  01-03-2017 12:30
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWill it ever be possible for humans to recreate the big bang?Sophie Domme, Berlin, GermanyContinue reading...
  
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• Why do we have such contradictory messages about school?

  01-03-2017 12:30
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWhy do people say school is important, but also that you won’t need the stuff they teach you ever again? It’s so contradictory.Lena Zellin Continue reading...
  
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• Running in circles: my track marathon

  01-03-2017 12:15
  
  Everyone wants a nice, flat marathon course for a crack at their PB. But 105 laps of the track are not for the faint hearted, as Stuart Goodwin discoveredIn summer 2007, I jogged 8km alone on my club’s track. I have rarely been so bored. This unfond memory was just one of many reasons why, on New Year’s Eve, with a browser window open and debit card in hand to enter Warrington’s winter track marathon, I should have stopped myself.I’d had no joy with the London ballot, and
  
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• Those with blurry close-up vision get some new help

  01-03-2017 10:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that is a bane of middle age. But who's really a good candidate to toss their...
  
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• Your underwhelming pancake day photos

  01-03-2017 09:44
  
  Shrove Tuesday was a day of inept flipping and flabby battersContinue reading...
  
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• The 20 best French recipes: part 3

  01-03-2017 09:00
  
  Classic dishes from top chefs, including boeuf bourguignon and filet au poivre, selected by Observer Food MonthlyThe final part of this series launches on Thursday at 8amThis is a favourite among those carefully composed, slowly cooked dishes which are the domain of French housewives and owner-cooks of modest restaurants rather than of professional chefs. Generally supposed to be of Burgundian origin (although Alfred Contour’s Cuisinier Bourguignon gives no recipe for it) boeuf à la
  
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• The kids have spoken

  01-03-2017 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  For those of you who don’t have calendars, I would like to point out that today is a very special day.Today, March 1, along with being Ash Wednesday, is the 60th day of the year, meaning there are only 305 more days to go in 2017, not that we are counting.It also happens to be —
  
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• Hidden figures no more: female Nasa staff to be immortalised in Lego

  01-03-2017 02:39
  
  Set of five scientists, engineers and astronauts – including Katherine Johnson – wins Lego Ideas contest and will go into production Lego will release a set of five female Nasa scientists, engineers and astronauts based on real women who have worked for the space agency.Maia Weinstock, an American science writer who created @legoNASAwomen, tweeted the good news on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Toronto's Alo tops 2017 Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list

  01-03-2017 02:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Toronto's Alo has topped the 2017 Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list while Vancouver eatery Kissa Tanto has been named the country's best new restaurant.Alo, which launched in 2015 with fine-dining tasting menus, made the jump from the seventh spot on last year's list.It's the second time in...
  
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• Oceanco Reveals 120-Meter Superyacht Amara

  01-03-2017 02:00
  
  The resort-style superyacht was designed for traveling and relaxing with family and friends…Danielle Cutler
  
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• Sudoku 3684 medium

  01-03-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Sainsbury's named world's best sustainable seafood supermarket

  01-03-2017 01:01
  
  Marine Stewardship Council table has Sainsbury’s on top with 225 MSC-certified productsSainsbury’s has been named the best sustainable seafood supermarket in the world in a survey published by the Marine Stewardship Council. The annual supermarket league table from the international certification body – known for its blue “ecolabel” – rates British supermarkets on their sustainable seafood range. More than 300 fisheries in over 30 countries are certified to th
  
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• The Macallan Releases a New Scotch Destined to Be Collected and Coveted

  01-03-2017 01:00
  
  With only 500 bottles made, this special Speyside whisky is a treasure worth hunting…Jenny Adams
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,606

  01-03-2017 01:00
  
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• Colorectal cancer rare but rising among millennials, Gen X

  01-03-2017 00:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Colorectal cancer mostly strikes middle-aged and older people, but new research shows a disturbing rise in cases among young adults.Tuesday's study by the American Cancer Society is a reminder that while this type of cancer is rare in the young, no one should ignore symptoms just
  
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