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• Self-heating coats, smart shirts offer glimpse of the future in Toronto showcase

  14-06-2017 23:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Some thirty floors above Toronto's streets, a select group of people caught a glimpse of the future.The future is smart, with technology no longer limited to phones in ...
  
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• Homeless, but not voiceless, at Carnegie Hall

  14-06-2017 23:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - They're homeless, but a group of men and women from Texas has made it to Carnegie Hall.The storied New York City concert hall is the venue Wednesday ...
  
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• Vintage typewriters gain fans amid 'digital burnout'

  14-06-2017 22:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Typewriter enthusiasts gather at an Albuquerque restaurant to experiment with vintage Smith Coronas. Fans in Boston kneel in a city square and type stories about their lives ......
  
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• Let's go to the Ex

  14-06-2017 22:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  It’s certain to be a carnival atmosphere when the Red River Ex returns for its annual 10 days of fun and festivities starting June 16.The Ex began in 1952, but ...
  
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• Hot dog! Eye-catching LA wiener stand finds museum home

  14-06-2017 21:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - An eye-catching Los Angeles hot dog stand designed in the 1940s to look like a giant wiener on a bun has found a home a decade after ...
  
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• Women-only spa's 'no male genitals' rule ignites transgender debate

  14-06-2017 20:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Controversy over a female-only spa's "no male genitals" policy has reignited debate over the rights of transgender people to access traditionally gender-exclusive spaces, even as the federal government ......
  
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• French aviator crosses Channel in flying car

  14-06-2017 19:58
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - A French pilot crossed the English Channel on Wednesday in a flying car that looks part dune buggy, part paraglider.
  
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• Appeals court upholds Philadelphia's tax on sweetened drinks

  14-06-2017 19:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - An appeals court is upholding Philadelphia's 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages, saying it doesn't duplicate the state sales tax.The Commonwealth Court's 5-to-2 decision Wednesday backed a decision by ...
  
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• 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival

  14-06-2017 18:19
  
  With its kale ice-cream, rose quartz eggs and inhouse shaman, Paltrow’s ‘wellness adventure’ is silly and fun. But is it only for rich, white people who are disproportionately well already?
  Culver City, Los Angeles, is socked in by haze, and a line of women in black athleisure – more blondes than one is accustomed to seeing in one place at one time – stretches down the block. Each has paid between $500 and $1500 (£390 and £1,175) to stand in this line a
  
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• Tips to make swimwear shopping season less stressful

  14-06-2017 17:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - It's the time of year for what can be a dreaded expedition: Buying a swimsuit. But for women looking for a shopping experience that includes more size ......
  
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• University of Guelph setting up lab to research Lyme disease with $1.4M donation

  14-06-2017 17:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - The University of Guelph is opening a research lab dedicated to improving testing and treatment for Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacteria that is increasingly affecting Canadians across the ......
  
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• Belgian court convicts parents in baby's malnutrition death

  14-06-2017 15:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DENDERMONDE, Belgium - A Belgian court on Wednesday convicted two parents in the death of their infant, who succumbed to malnutrition and dehydration because his parents were firm believers in ...
  
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• Cubans fret new Trump policy will dampen tourism boom

  14-06-2017 14:34
  
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Edi Coba says he is not sure his new rooftop bar in the heart of Old Havana that buzzes at night with hip, tattooed young Americans will survive if U.S. President Donald Trump...
  
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• Meat and potatoes can be made healthier as a dinner salad

  14-06-2017 14:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Generations of Americans have grown up heralding meat and potatoes as the classic dinner of choice. Who doesn't love the taste of that time-honoured combination, filling our bellies with the ......
  
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• Why are Brits a nation of ditherers? Ummm ...

  14-06-2017 13:27
  
  Faced with a world of infinite choice, the average person in the UK apparently spends more than two and a half years of their life caught in indecision
  Name: Dithering.Age: Let me look it up. Continue reading...
  
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• Ackley Bridge is the latest school TV show, but which is best?

  14-06-2017 12:40
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsAckley Bridge is the latest in the neverending roll call of school-based TV dramas/sitcoms and films, from St Trinian’s to Skins. But which one is the best (or maybe scariest) revision of the school experience?Susan Lloyd, Manchester Continue reading...
  
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• Is there any food nutritionally worse than pork scratchings?

  14-06-2017 12:30
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsIs there any food nutritionally worse than pork scratchings?Peter Murray, Bristol Continue reading...
  
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• Kitchen gadgets review: Philips self-cleaning juicer – like emptying a lawnmower’s grass bag

  14-06-2017 12:04
  
  This new device promises to end the mulchy faff with a quick-clean mode. It effortlessly turns solid into liquid, but can it covert The Lazy to juicers?The Philips Avance juicer (Amazon, £170.87) is a bicameral centrifuge, divided by serrated sieve. Shreds fruit and greens, siphons fluid. Continue reading...
  
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• How to shop for clothes online (without having to send everything back)

  14-06-2017 11:22
  
  As the summer sales start, the Guardian’s stylist gives her tips for buying clothes online – from measuring heel heights to working out what size bag you actually needThe summer sales start this week, but shopping online – and not being able to try on clothes before you buy them – can feel like one of modern life’s annoyances. Dresses are too short, trousers are too long, and fabric is so sheer that you can see your underwear through it; seconds after your package h
  
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• Afghan amputee swimmer aims for international success

  14-06-2017 11:02
  
  KABUL (Reuters) - It took a pair of landmines that severed Malek Mohammad's legs for him to find his life's passion for swimming in land-locked Afghanistan.
  
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• Nine Chinese gay, transgender couples to tie the knot on cruise ship

  14-06-2017 09:33
  
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Eight hundred people will watch on Wednesday as Aries Liu, a 32-year-old man who used to be a woman, marries his blushing bride on a cruise ship in waters near China's business...
  
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• Every time I contact TalkTalk I get a fake email from scammers

  14-06-2017 08:00
  
  It seems the phone company is still having problems with data breachesI know you have charted the various data breaches at phone company TalkTalk, so thought I’d share my experience. I am a long-standing customer, for various reasons of convenience, though I have a range of ongoing service and account issues. For the past year or so, every time I contact its helpline, use online chat or am provided with some additional hardware/service, within a few hours I receive a crudely rendered fake
  
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• Pop culture

  14-06-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  In these days of culinary wonder, almost anything goes. You can serve any food in any number of creative ways, however kooky and impractical. For example: Anything on a stick ......
  
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• Car shopping for dummies

  14-06-2017 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Please don’t tell anyone, but we are looking for a new car.When I say “we,” of course, I mean “my wife,” and when I say “new car” I am referring ...
  
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• An existence, in excerpts

  14-06-2017 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  I think I peaked in 1988, and it’s all downhill now. How awful, to decline this way. What makes young people young is that they see themselves going up, up, ...
  
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• San Francisco celebrates pivotal time in US: Summer of Love

  14-06-2017 04:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an ...
  
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• Nevada officials aim to start legal pot sales by July 1

  14-06-2017 03:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. - If Nevada officials have their way, tourists and residents will be able to buy pot legally ahead of Independence Day.But before recreational marijuana launches in the ......
  
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• San Francisco requires clean space for breastfeeding workers

  14-06-2017 01:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  San Francisco supervisors approved legislation that requires employers to provide new mothers a clean and private space to pump their milk, adding to the board's long history of trying to ......
  
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• AP WAS THERE: San Francisco's groovy, gritty Summer of Love

  14-06-2017 00:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - EDITOR'S NOTE: Fifty years ago, thousands of young Americans descended on San Francisco to join a cultural revolution known as the Summer of Love.Many came to resist ...
  
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• Philadelphia hospital separates conjoined 10-month-old twins

  14-06-2017 00:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - A team successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twins during an 11-hour surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said Tuesday.The hospital said sisters Erin and Abby Delaney, of North Carolina, are ...
  
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• 1967's Summer of Love put spotlight on counterculture

  14-06-2017 00:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an ...
  
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