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• FDA approves more drugs, and faster, than Europe, study says

  05-04-2017 23:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Contrary to some political claims, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved more drugs, and two to three months faster on average, than European regulators did in recent years, new research shows."It's an urban myth" that the FDA is slower than other countries to clear
  
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• Weight swings may be risky for overweight heart patients

  05-04-2017 23:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - Losing and regaining weight repeatedly may be dangerous for overweight heart patients, a study suggests.Heart attacks, strokes and death were more common in patients whose weight changed the most over four years.For some, weight changes might have reflected yo-yo dieting, which some
  
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• Paula Deen plans new seafood restaurant in Savannah area

  05-04-2017 23:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAVANNAH, Ga. - Paula Deen is opening a new seafood restaurant on the same waterfront property outside Savannah where an eatery she co-owned with her brother closed three years ago.Local media outlets report the celebrity cook plans to open Paula Deen's Creek House in June on Whitemarsh Island....
  
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• Rare Macallan Collection Goes for Nearly $1 Million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sale

  05-04-2017 23:00
  
  The Macallan and Lalique Legacy Collection sets a world record for a single whisky lot at auction…Livia Hooson
  
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• Rum, Refined: Appleton Estate and Mount Gay’s New Limited Editions

  05-04-2017 22:00
  
  These aged sipping rums can stand alongside the best whiskies and cognacs…Tony Sachs
  
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• If you build it, they'll stay; boomers remodel their homes

  05-04-2017 21:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - If you build it, they will stay.The small businesses that dominate the home remodeling industry are expecting robust growth in the next few years, thanks partly to baby boomers who want to remain in their homes.Home remodelers say they've had a pickup in projects from boomers who
  
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• Pepsi pulls widely mocked ad featuring Kendall Jenner

  05-04-2017 20:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Pepsi on Wednesday pulled an ad after it was widely mocked and criticized for appearing to trivialize protests for social justice causes."Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding," the company said. "Clearly we missed the mark, and we
  
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• Chef Matty Matheson explores culture through food on 'Dead Set on Life'

  05-04-2017 20:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Straddling a huge alligator during filming of the culinary travel show "Dead Set on Life" was something Matty Matheson did on the spur of the moment.The Toronto chef was on a guided gator hunt in the Florida Everglades when the group hauled in the lengthy reptile."When we were...
  
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• Don’t Know What Hygge Is? You Will After You Stay at These 10 Resorts

  05-04-2017 20:00
  
  The Danish obsession with coziness translates to some of the most luxurious hotels around the world…Amanda Millin
  
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• Spanish hospital offers nipple tattoos to breast cancer survivors

  05-04-2017 18:21
  
  MADRID (Reuters) - Arms covered in red and green ink, tattoo artist Alvaro Quesada is hardly what cancer survivors expect at a Madrid infirmary, the first public hospital in Spain to offer nipple and...
  
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• New York's Eleven Madison Park voted world's best restaurant

  05-04-2017 18:01
  
  MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New York's Eleven Madison Park nabbed the top prize at the World's 50 Best Restaurants on Wednesday, only the second non-European restaurant to win the gong.
  
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• This Unusual New Jewelry Moves with You

  05-04-2017 18:00
  
  Photography by Lisa Charles Watson, styling by Charles W. Bumgardner
  Designer Yael Sonia unveils her new collection of dynamic jewelry…Jill Newman
  
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• For Christ’s sake! The curious world of modern crucifixions

  05-04-2017 17:49
  
  A fundraising event charging punters £750 to be mock-crucified has been withdrawn on grounds of taste. But there are other opportunities, if that’s your thingSadly, we will never get to find out what motivates someone in northern England in 2017 to want to get up on a cross and be mock-crucified in the runup to Easter. And to spend £750 for the opportunity. For about a week, you could buy the crucifixion experience on a crowdfunding website, a wheeze to help raise money for put
  
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• ASK A DESIGNER: Finding a look you love in outdoor decor

  05-04-2017 17:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  For decades, "outdoor decorating" meant arranging a few nice chairs and a table near a barbecue grill, then adding an umbrella to block the summer sun. But as patios and decks have morphed into "outdoor living rooms," the bar has risen for outdoor style and comfort."HGTV Design Star" judge Vern
  
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• Millennials aren't too impatient to garden - we just don't have the space

  05-04-2017 17:08
  
  Don’t accuse young people of lacking patience - we’ll have to wait decades, if ever, until we can afford a house and gardenRecently this blog published a post by Tom Smart bewailing young people’s preference for smart phones over tulip bulbs, blaming millennials’ lack of patience as the root cause for their lack of interest in horticulture. I’ve also come across this argument in the RHS magazine, The Garden.As a millennial myself, I think this is rubbish. How can yo
  
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• Passover pizza: New triangular matzo shape debuts

  05-04-2017 16:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. - It's not your bubbe's matzo.The New Jersey-based largest producer of kosher food in North America is breaking tradition in its 129-year history by unveiling its first triangular matzo.Manischewitz says the shape is part of its Matzo Pizza Kit.CEO David Sugarman says matzo...
  
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• Rome turns to cost-saving LED lighting but some residents unhappy

  05-04-2017 15:57
  
  ROME (Reuters) - Rome is investing millions of euros in environmentally friendly, cost-saving LED street-lighting, but some residents of the Eternal City are unhappy to lose the softer, golden glow...
  
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• How to make a creamy white bean soup -- without any cream

  05-04-2017 15:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  White bean soup with garlic is a classic comfort dish in the Mediterranean region.Usually, it's loaded with heavy cream, which also loads up the fat and calories. My version uses no cream at all, getting its body from adding extra garlic plus a lone starchy potato, and then blending most of the
  
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• My Crocs rock … and the fashion world has finally come round to them

  05-04-2017 15:42
  
  For years, my rubber footwear was met with titters, but since Christopher Kane put Crocs on the catwalk, I’m suddenly the most fashionable man at the GuardianAt last, the email I have been waiting for – and expecting. For quite a long time, actually, although I was never in any doubt that it was coming. Would I write a short piece about being the most fashionable man in the Guardian? Of course, with pleasure.Specifically, it’s about my footwear: Crocs. You know, the rubbery pla
  
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• Is it OK for joggers to run in a cemetery?

  05-04-2017 13:30
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsI recently saw a jogger enter our local cemetery. I was unsure whether running round the graves would be a breach of etiquette. I put it to my wife who seemed unconcerned: “A lot worse has gone on in there,” she said. How do other readers feel?Mark Dewey, London SE27 Continue reading...
  
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• The Lanzarote resort that offers sun, sea … and lots of sport

  05-04-2017 13:28
  
  Club La Santa in Lanzarote has three Olympic-size pools, plus facilities for just about any other athletic activity. It’s the perfect place for your DIY boot camp During one day at Club La Santa, I took a one-hour swimming class that massively improved my front crawl, did an another hour-long TRX session for my core, ran eight miles on a full-size 400m track, played racketball, and messed about in the huge kids’ swimming pool with my two children. This was not an unusual day. Everywh
  
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• Living with autism: ‘I avoid public transport as much as I can'

  05-04-2017 13:15
  
  For Sky Boswell, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s at the age of 57, travelling can trigger overwhelming anxiety – with far-reaching consequences for her work and personal life The stress of getting a bus or train is overwhelming. It fills me with dread. Telling me “nothing will go wrong” doesn’t change anything. This doesn’t feel like a choice I have made, and it is nothing to do with willpower or lack of exposure. Autism is not like that. It’s the nois
  
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• 10 Las Vegas bucket list attractions

  05-04-2017 11:21
  
  Las Vegas has iconic sights and attractions in abundance, but these are the 10 you really must visitBig Apple coaster at New York-New York
  First, they recreated the New York skyline around a Big Apple-themed hotel casino – the Empire State, Chrysler building and all. But that’s not enough for Las Vegas, oh no. So they only went and added a twisty-turny rollercoaster that snakes both outside and inside the building, enjoyed by 1.4 million thrill-seekers every year.Sun-Thur 11am-11pm,
  
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• Kitchen gadgets review: Mix & Mist salad sprayer – like wielding a Super Soaker 0.0001

  05-04-2017 11:00
  
  I squirted grease over my keyboard, walls and ceiling instead of misting my salad with oil and vinegarThe Mix & Mist salad sprayer (£16, amazon.co.uk) is a double-nozzle pump, fed by a bi-compartmental chamber. Synthesises oil and vinegar under pressure into mist. Continue reading...
  
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• A touch too difficult to get a refund from Motorola

  05-04-2017 08:00
  
  A G4 phone and a replacement were both faulty but Motorola insists on a repairIn December I bought a £139 G4 mobile handset from Motorola.co.uk as a Christmas present for my wife. Shortly after she started using it it became apparent the handset wasn’t working properly, and had an intermittent fault: so-called “ghost touch” – the screen registers touches without any contact, so you can’t unlock your phone.We tried to use the Consumer Rights Act to reject the p
  
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• Welcome to crybaby country

  05-04-2017 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  I don’t mean to belittle our national character, but it seems were are a nation of crybabies.For the record, that is not my opinion. I believe Canadians are rugged individuals who routinely brave horrific weather conditions and harsh geography that would reduce other mortals to quivering...
  
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• Previously announced flour recall expanded across the country

  05-04-2017 06:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA - A recall of Robin Hood brand flour announced last month by federal health officials has now been expanded to all of Canada.The initial recall of 10-kilogram bags of flour was addressed to consumers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.The affected flour carries a...
  
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• One-of-a-Kind Rare Karuizawa Japanese Whisky Collection on the Auction Block

  05-04-2017 03:00
  
  The 290-bottle collection includes the most valuable Japanese whisky ever auctioned…Tony Sachs
  
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• The Jaguar E-Type Has Been Remarkably Reborn

  05-04-2017 01:00
  
  The marque is taking original examples from the Sixties and restoring them as new sensations…Viju Mathew
  
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