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• Stars hit Dior's encyclopedic 70th birthday show in Paris

  03-07-2017 22:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Christian Dior feted its 70th birthday at Paris' Couture Week Monday in style with an accomplished, star-filled show that mapped the iconic house's journey across the world. It ...
  
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• Vegan ice cream is nice cream thanks to creamier bases

  03-07-2017 18:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Nice cream: It's what they call vegan ice cream. But with creamier bases and more interesting flavours, it's not just for vegans anymore.Dairy-free ice cream options have ...
  
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• Not just for kids - paintball comes of age with its own Campaign Cup

  03-07-2017 18:05
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Once the stuff of children's birthday outings, paintball is attracting a growing band of devotees who see it as a competitive sport like any other, with its own international...
  
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• Bored with the gym? Why jousting is the ultimate workout

  03-07-2017 18:05
  
  Modern-day jousters are as fit as professional footballers and tennis champions, a study has found. So what does it take to master the oldest equestrian sport?It’s one of the oldest equestrian sports in the world and, according to new research, it produces elite athletes with fitness levels comparable to those of professional footballers, champion tennis players and Formula One drivers combined.So what exactly is it about racing towards an opponent on a horse galloping at up to 30mph while
  
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• Vegetarian beef farmer moves herd to greener pastures

  03-07-2017 17:44
  
  DERBYSHIRE, England (Reuters) - For committed vegetarian Jay Wilde, taking over his father's central England beef farm in 2011 gave rise to a significant ethical dilemma: how could he continue...
  
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• Roxane Gay: ‘If I was conventionally hot and had a slammin’ body, I would be president’

  03-07-2017 17:09
  
  The publication of her memoir Hunger has sparked furious debate on fat activism. The author, professor and ‘bad feminist’ talks to Lindy West about race, weight and why she objects to being called a diaristRoxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was described to me by multiple people as an almost unbearably brutal book, and it is. You yearn for Gay to be a little kinder to herself as she glides through her past, reckoning with all the things she did with her body and, more s
  
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• 'Milk' not the only contested word in the food world

  03-07-2017 16:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Even government agencies can't always agree on whether "soy milk" is an appropriate term.The dairy industry wants terms like soy, almond and rice milk to vanish from supermarket shelves because ......
  
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• Not happy – why Pharrell Williams needs to update his views on childcare

  03-07-2017 16:21
  
  In her weekly advice column, our style arbiter notes with dismay the star’s refusal to change his triplets’ nappies. Complimenting his wife for her hard work simply won’t doSo you’ve banged on about Beyoncé’s twins and Clooney’s twins, but you totally missed out on the big celebrity multiple births story this year. What’s happened?Jenna, by email Continue reading...
  
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• Soy 'milk'? Even federal agencies can't agree on terminology

  03-07-2017 16:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Dairy farmers want U.S. regulators to banish the term "soy milk," but documents show even government agencies haven't always agreed on what to call such drinks.The U.S. ...
  
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• 'Nicer than most houses:' $200K luxury playhouses a thriving business

  03-07-2017 16:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Childhood was never like this.A company in southern Alberta has found an unexpected luxury market that involves the lifestyles of the rich and famous, their offspring and ......
  
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• Stone Fruit Almond Upside-Down Cake is summertime treat

  03-07-2017 15:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  This recipe for Stone Fruit Almond Upside-Down Cake works equally well using any kind of stone fruit or a mix of every kind of stone fruit, including plums, apricots, nectarines, ...
  
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• West Virginia peaks draw experienced climbers and novices

  03-07-2017 15:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SENECA ROCKS, W.Va. - Seneca Rocks in West Virginia draws climbers from around the mid-Atlantic to a craggy ridge with fiercely vertical routes rising from low forested mountains.Its peak is ...
  
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• COOKING ON DEADLINE: Cavatappi with Cherry Tomatoes, Pesto

  03-07-2017 15:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Summer, summer, summer. The word is fat and round and breezy and rolls around nicely on the tongue. And we want our food to be breezy, too.If you have basil ...
  
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• Drop it like it's haute: what to wear to four summer occasions – in pictures

  03-07-2017 14:40
  
  ’Tis the season for socialising, so from tinted sunglasses to wide-legged trousers and the season’s ubiquitous bumbag, here’s your guide to styling it out this summer Continue reading...
  
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• Man who inspired ice bucket challenge is back in hospital

  03-07-2017 14:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BOSTON - The Massachusetts man who inspired people around the world to dump buckets of ice water over their heads to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig's disease research ...
  
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• From Stockholm to Milan, a Focus on Sustainability

  03-07-2017 14:00
  
   Fifteen Swedish companies and three designers took their designs on a road trip from from Sweden to Milan, Italy, to be part of an expo. This blended exhibition was curated by White, the third largest architectural studio in Europe. It showcases products that highlight the innovative designs and cultural heritage of these prominent Swedish designers.A focus on functionality is a signature trait of Swedish design. Many of the products featured are durable, intended to be long-lasting a
  
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• Century Spice Road, Catch the Moon, Sagrada games review – fiendish fun

  03-07-2017 12:40
  
  A mission to track down exotic spices, building increasingly unstable ladders to the moon and designing glorious stained glass windows feature in our regular roundup of new board gamesIn the latest edition of our board game roundup we’re crossing deserts in search of precious spices, building unnervingly wobbly ladders to the moon and creating beautiful stained glass windows using our wits, intelligence and a big bag of dice.Continue reading...
  
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• Crossword blog: when quick crosswords get cryptic

  03-07-2017 12:18
  
  A recent puzzle had a theme which was mis-reported as a printing error. Themes and hidden messages may be more common than you think ...I’ll be quixotic to avoid spoilers, but today seems quite appropriate for this question: is this a place to discuss quick crosswords?
  Take the Times’s concise puzzle, which has been in the news. Devotees of that puzzle will have noticed, over time, that it is now never merely a set of definitions. One day, you might spot that some of the rows of the
  
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• 20 best Mediterranean recipes: part 1

  03-07-2017 09:00
  
  The finest Mediterranean recipes, as chosen by Observer Food Monthly, starting with pomegranate chicken, Venetian spaghettini with clams, and fragrant rice pudding20 best Mediterranean recipes: part 2This is a good one to make when people come round, as it is really hard not to like – sweet and sour, plenty of textures, pretty colours and virtually everybody likes chicken. Using chicken thighs here makes it almost impossible to dry the meat out and ensures plenty of chicken flavour to come
  
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• ​Noise is annoying – but can it also make you infertile?

  03-07-2017 08:00
  
  A new study has found a link between lengthy exposure to low traffic noise or its equivalent and male fertility problems. But how worried should we be?You don’t have to live under a flight path or next to a nightclub to be bothered by noise. Surprisingly low levels of noise – above 55 decibels (the equivalent of light traffic or an air conditioner) – especially at night is not only annoying but detrimental to health. Noise pollution is, warns the World Health Organization, a gr
  
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• The earworm that infected the nation

  03-07-2017 07:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Warning to readers: If you do NOT wish to have a stupid song bouncing around in your brain on a continual loop for the rest of your life, we strongly ......
  
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• I quickly lose interest in my sexual partners. Is it because I watch too much​ ​porn?

  03-07-2017 07:30
  
  I have been watching pornography since I was 12 and enjoy extreme fantasies, but I worry it’s the reason why I can’t sustain any sexual relationship
  I am a 26-year-old female with a healthy sexual appetite. I began watching pornography when I was 12 and increasingly got into more intense types, such as rape fantasies. In my previous long-term relationship, I became uninterested sexually in my partner after about two years. Now I need a new partner each time I have sex. I started seei
  
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• My crash course in aphasia, the debilitating loss of the ability to talk

  03-07-2017 07:00
  
  When Helen Harris came round from brain surgery, she found she couldn’t even say her own name. She describes her slow recovery – and how to react to someone with the conditionI had never heard the word “aphasia” and didn’t know what it was until I came round from brain surgery and found that I was unable to speak. A nurse asked me to tell her my name. I couldn’t. She held up a pair of scissors and asked what they were called.All I could do was shake my head. &
  
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• Ed Miliband: ‘If I went on Strictly, it would make the bacon sandwich look elegant’

  03-07-2017 07:00
  
  The former Labour leader talks about his reinvention as a radio personality, says he’s not surprised it’s gone wrong for Theresa May – and admits he has to ‘tip his hat to Jeremy Corbyn’
  Ed Miliband and I are sitting in his rather swanky corner office in Portcullis House, Westminster, talking toilets. Dual-flush, or Victorian-style with the satisfying pull-chain? Outside the window, the grandeur of the Houses of Parliament seems almost to rebuke us, but we don&rsquo
  
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• July Fourth holiday brings mixed feelings for minorities

  03-07-2017 02:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - As many in the United States celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, some minorities have mixed feelings about the revelry of fireworks and parades in an atmosphere ......
  
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