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• Sick dog to reunite with family 2 years after disappearing

  22-05-2017 23:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HOWELL, N.J. - A dog found near death will be reunited with her owners two years after she disappeared.Five-year-old Cali was found at a rest stop in south New Jersey ......
  
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• New York City steakhouse sues Pennsylvania eatery over name

  22-05-2017 22:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SCRANTON, Pa. - A New York City steakhouse is suing a Pennsylvania eatery for trademark infringement.Peter Luger Inc. filed a lawsuit last week against Scranton's Carl von Luger Steak & ...
  
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• Science Says: Medications prevent opioid addiction relapse

  22-05-2017 19:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - Remarks by a top U.S. health official have reignited a quarrel in the world of addiction and recovery: Does treating opioid addiction with medication save lives? Or does ......
  
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• London's Chelsea Flower Show to open with a volcano and a secret garden

  22-05-2017 18:23
  LONDON (Reuters) - A secret garden and model erupting volcano are among the main attractions of this year's Chelsea Flower Show, Britain's premier gardening show which is enticing royalty and...
  
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• Chelsea flower show blooms into action – in pictures

  22-05-2017 17:26
  
  The art of gardening is celebrated this week at the Chelsea flower show, one of the world’s largest horticultural festivals. This year’s event, set in the grounds of the 17th-century Royal Hospital in south-west London, will host more than 500 exhibitors and is expected to attract 165,000 visitors from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• AP Exclusive: UN health agency slammed for high travel costs

  22-05-2017 16:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, travelled to Guinea earlier this month to join the country's president in celebrating the world's first Ebola vaccine.After praising ...
  
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• KitchenWise: This chicken salad is served in a hot dog bun

  22-05-2017 15:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Chicken salad, that summertime classic, often suffers from Chewy Chicken Syndrome, a pitfall that requires a tightrope walk to avoid.You want to build the recipe around white meat chicken — ......
  
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• 'Brexit virus': an EU-plot to sabotage the great British breakfast

  22-05-2017 13:46
  
  A strain of hepatitis E carried by some continental pigs has been given a topical nickname. So, do we need to vote leave on bacon?Name: the Brexit virus.Also known as: hepatitis E (HEV). Continue reading...
  
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• Read all about it: the joy of newspapers

  22-05-2017 12:00
  
  If you’ve got to the age when doing jobs around the house is an uphill struggle, pick up a newspaperWhat are newspapers for? Mostly, we reckon we have a certain amount of time and it isn’t enough to do all the things we have to do. And we’re confused when it’s the other way round: the things we have to do fill only half the time we have available. Whichever way round it is, it’s always worth making time to read the papers.When you get to a certain age, you set aside
  
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• Anna Tobias’s recipe for poached chicken, spring vegetables and aioli | Guest cook

  22-05-2017 12:00
  
  Delicately flavoured, soothingly supple poached meat cries out for colourful accompaniments: a tumble of spring veg alongside tender chicken, a fiery apple relish and potato rosti beside yielding beef ... and a broth that keeps on givingCooking isn’t a beauty contest, nor is it a fashion show. For me, the priority isn’t to be on trend, or to look beautiful, but simply for the food that I cook to taste great.Some of my favourite things to cook and eat are often the least appetising. T
  
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• AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS

  22-05-2017 11:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, travelled to Guinea earlier this month to join the country's president in celebrating the world's first Ebola vaccine.After praising ......
  
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• Am I ready for my cookbook cull?

  22-05-2017 10:00
  
  There’s a weight of memory and knowledge in my cookbooks. And now I have to get rid of some …In the kitchen, a small crisis. Something Must Be Done about the cookery books, which are threatening to take over, and may soon leave one of us in the same boat as poor old Leonard Bast (killed, in EM Forster’s Howard’s End, by a bookcase). The question is: what? At first, it all seems so easy. Online, I find an OK-looking set of shelves, and stick them straight on my credit car
  
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• Research shows aggressive treatment of sepsis can save lives

  22-05-2017 09:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Sepsis is the body's out-of-control reaction to an infection — and by the time patients realize they're in trouble, their organs could be shutting down.So minutes really matter ...
  
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• The psychology of passwords: 'You won't change until you've been hacked'

  22-05-2017 09:00
  
  We all know the risks of not changing our passwords – yet somehow it is never a priority. Louise Chunn explains why few people botherYou know you should; you know you must! But for some reason you just don’t ever seem to get around to changing your passwords. You could simply start using a password manager, an easy-to-access programme that safely tracks and stores your passwords, assigning different ones to each account. But do you? Surely there’s not a part of you that actuall
  
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• Nigel Slater’s early summer recipes

  22-05-2017 09:00
  
  Whether it’s tiny strawberries, broad beans or young rhubarb, when it comes to the new season’s ingredients, the less you do the betterWe ate fresh goat’s cheese mousse soft, with nothing but a trickle from the olive oil bottle, and then a spoonful of fresh peas steaming hot, and a few wayward tendrils of peppery pea shoots. It was the first of this year’s outdoor lunches.When the first few sunny days of spring came, we picked up the cushions, put them on the barely dry b
  
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• My wife’s affair has left me feeling less sexually attracted to her

  22-05-2017 08:59
  
  It was a short and sexless relationship, but since finding out about it I no longer fancy her in the same wayMy wife and I are trying to put our life back together after she had a short, albeit thankfully sexless, affair. We are working our way through the issues with a counsellor, but I am struggling with sexual attraction. Until the discovery, I had found my wife more beautiful every day. But I no longer fancy her in the same way. Will this pass? The discovery of your wife’s other relati
  
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• No tip for you: restaurants move toward hospitality-included menus

  22-05-2017 08:00
  
  As the industry tries to make pay more fair, efforts to end the tipping habit have been complicated by the impending raises in minimum wage in many states“Hmmm,” was the considered opinion of a member of the waitstaff at Manhattan’s Union Square Cafe last week when asked about working for a set wage, not tips. “It’s good to know how much is coming in,” the staff member later reconsidered. “Not so good if you need to make cash fast.”A little over 18
  
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• Crossword blog: what makes a thing 'a thing'?

  22-05-2017 08:00
  
  How do you decide whether a word is worthy of being clued?During our competition to clue WHITE KNIGHT, solver Catarella paused for a spot of philosophy:I wonder if all the clues that are giving some sort of synonym for a chess piece are quite playing fair (including my own). Obviously, it’s a chess piece, but it wouldn’t be in a crossword because it’s a chess piece. If I solved a puzzle and found black pawn to be one of the solutions I’d feel a bit miffed. Continue readin
  
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• An apprenticeship or university – which would be better for my creative son?

  22-05-2017 08:00
  
  I don’t want to rob him of the opportunities that a higher education course could offer but it is costly, so I’m torn
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.My youngest son is 18 and just finishing his A-levels. He is creative and would like to work eventually in a medi
  
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• Should I use cotton buds to clean my ears?

  22-05-2017 07:30
  
  Everyone – even health-care professionals – will have done it at some point. But it’s dangerous – and, thanks to the ear’s self-cleaning mechanism, unnecessaryWho doesn’t enjoy sticking a cotton bud in their ear? To twist gently, pull it out and examine the white tip turned to yellow? Q-tips were part of many childhoods. The Q-tips website has users sharing how they use buds to clean not only ears but toilet cisterns and pistols. Which is just as well, as
  
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• ‘I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic’ – the rise of open-label placebos

  22-05-2017 07:00
  
  IBS patient Linda Buonanno knew the pills she was given contained no active drugs, yet they had an immediate effect on her condition. So can placebos play a useful medical role?Linda Buonanno had suffered 15 years of intense cramps, bloating, diarrhoea and pain she describes as “worse than labour”. She was willing to try anything to get relief from her irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and leapt at the chance to take part in a trial of an experimental new therapy. Her hope turned to dis
  
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