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• Doctor told to stop marketing 3-person baby technique

  04-08-2017 23:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  U.S. regulators warned a New York fertility doctor to stop marketing an experimental procedure that uses DNA from three people — a mother, a father and an egg donor — ......
  
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• Farms drawing diners who eat near fields that produced food

  04-08-2017 22:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CAMBRIDGE, Vt. - What was once a smattering of farms offering expensive dinners within view of the fields where the food was raised has sprouted into popular summer and fall ......
  
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• Going to the zoo?

  04-08-2017 18:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Jo-Anne McArthur, a Canadian photographer and animal-rights activist, does not deny that her new book could be called “one-sided.” That is sort of the point.The images in Captive were taken ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for baked bream with tomatoes and peppers

  04-08-2017 18:00
  Sicilian-style baked fish with a Mexican twistWhen the weather is this good, the last thing I want to do is spend hours in the kitchen. There, I’ve said it: it’s the summer holidays, and I want to go on adventures with the children, sip wine with friends and visit beautiful gardens out of town. At this time of year, I basically just want to make-believe that every weekend is the holidays. And it’s not just me: even my local market seems to be mimicking the Mediterranean with it
  
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• Archaeologists discover a 'Little Pompeii' in southern France

  04-08-2017 17:54
  SAINTE-COLOMBE, France (Reuters) - French archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a Roman settlement in southern France that was deserted by its inhabitants after fires that ultimately helped...
  
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• Fashion and fairways: Slice of life in Nairobi

  04-08-2017 17:42
  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyans go to the polls next week to choose a new president, members of parliament and regional authorities, with many jittery about the potential for violence after the vote.
  
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• Let’s move to Herne Bay, Kent: classic caffs and crazy golf

  04-08-2017 17:30
  Sandwiched between Whitstable and Margate is the seaside that time forgotWhat’s going for it? Funny how some places change by the hour – blink, and the Poundland’s been magicked into a slam-poetry cafe – while others are the still, immovable eye of the storm. I’ve been coming to Herne Bay for decades and, OK, so the bandstand has been (nicely) restored, but little else has changed. This seaside town still seems wedged in the age of Charles Hawtrey and the three-day
  
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• Italian wine harvest begins 10 days early with heat, drought

  04-08-2017 17:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  COCCAGLIO, Italy - The Italian wine grape harvest is having its earliest start in a decade due to the effects of the summer's heatwave and drought.Producers of bubbly spumante in ......
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Locura recipe

  04-08-2017 17:00
  Mezcal and absinthe aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, especially in the same glass, but they combine to luscious effect in this refreshing tippleMezcal and absinthe is an eye-opening combo, hence this drink’s name, which is Spanish for madness, but the cucumber and lemon bring it back down to earth. Serves one.40ml mezcal
  ½ cucumber, cut into 8 large pieces, plus two thin slices to garnish
  25ml lemon juice
  25ml basic 50:50 sugar syrup
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• I don’t want to leave my husband but I feel suffocated and am having an affair

  04-08-2017 16:00
  My relationship with my husband feels more like one between mother and son than between equals. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI’ve been with my husband for eight years and we have been married for three. We are in our mid-30s and still haven’t decided if we want to have children. I am more hesitant than him.I have left my home country, family and friends to live with him. While it was extremely tough at the beginning, I feel I have now built something nice – a good job, a h
  
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• Fancy a life swap with Donald Trump? No, thanks | Oliver Burkeman

  04-08-2017 16:00
  The notion of wanting someone else’s life, even in our culture of celebrity envy, is exceedingly oddOne of the minor upsides of having to devote any brain-space to the Trump family is how vividly they demonstrate that an ultra-luxury lifestyle doesn’t lead to happiness. We’re all at least a little susceptible, I take it, to society’s message that celebrities’ lives are to be envied, leaving us feeling vaguely dissatisfied with our own. But I can state conf
  
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• In the ruins of an Iraqi city, memories of Agatha Christie

  04-08-2017 15:05
  NIMRUD, Iraq (Reuters) - Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud.
  
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• The Importance of Contrast in Interior Design (Plus, How to Make It Work for You)

  04-08-2017 15:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Contrast is an essential component of any interior design project. Image: Ann Lowengart InteriorsInterior design buffs know how important a room’s first impression can be. There are some spaces that, upon first glance, make your breath catch because its elements are so visually striking, yet still fit together. Other rooms seem to fall flat, almost
  
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• Stark, Broadstairs, Kent: ‘I find it hard to pick holes’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  04-08-2017 15:00
  This chef, in his Munchkin empire with its single, solitary fridge, is the real dealIn 10 years or so years of living in this bucket-and-spade Kentish seaside town, I’ve never had the urge to review on my doorstep. Sure, I’ve ventured to Margate, or Dalston-sur-Mer, as local snark goes, but preserved-in-aspic Broadstairs, nuh.I’ve been to Stark three times, each time thinking, “I can’t write about this.” It’s ludicrously tiny, kitchen the size of a broom
  
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• Experience: I am a professional mermaid

  04-08-2017 15:00
  I ordered my tail online. Custom-made from silicone and neoprene, it weighs two stone and cost me £800I grew up in St Ives, on the Cornish coast, so as a child I spent a lot of time in the water. The sea has always fascinated me. The film Splash was a huge part of my childhood and people even called me a mermaid because I spent so much time underwater. But then I grew up.In 2015 I was in a relationship with someone who lived in London. I was in my mid-20s and thought the big city lifestyle
  
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• Hibiscus margaritas blend 2 Mexican favourites

  04-08-2017 14:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If you've spent much time travelling in Mexico or the southwestern United States, you may have seen folks enjoying an agua fresca on a hot day. Agua frescas are simply ......
  
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• My parents’ Dunkirk spirit is probably why I exist

  04-08-2017 14:30
  As the British Expeditionary Force was being defeated in France and it looked like the end of the world, did my tyrannical father decide he might want a child after all?I went to see Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk without thinking. “Dunkirk” is a name I have always lived with. As a child in England, while the war ended, my family fed me “Dunkirk spirit” as if it had been the turning point of the conflict, as well as an exemplary display of humble English greatness. I h
  
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• My life in sex: 'He’s my 50th sexual partner'

  04-08-2017 14:00
  The 39-year-old trying for a babySex now is pretty much the best it’s ever been. We’re trying for our second baby, so it’s not frequent: every two days when my fertility app says I have a chance of conceiving, and almost never the rest of the time. When we do have sex, though, it’s amazing. I think it’s something to do with being emotionally in tune, and so hopeful of creating a new life each time.Our lives are incredibly busy: we have a toddler, we both work full t
  
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• Gemma Cairney: ‘Mum was a tenacious party girl, and gave me a gaggle of honorary aunties’

  04-08-2017 14:00
  The broadcaster and writer talks about growing up in London and Sussex, being babysat by her mother’s friends, and finding a way when life tells her ‘no’We moved from Birmingham to Balham, south London, when I was two. The only hazy memory I have of my biological father was when I was three: a smiling character said hello to me at Balham station, and I said hello back. We walked on. I never feel like there was a day when I found out that Vincent, the dad in my house, wasn&rsquo
  
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• No monkeying around, Indonesia task force vows

  04-08-2017 13:24
  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has deployed armed police and soldiers to help villagers on the island of Java fight back against marauding monkeys that have been terrorizing their area, stealing food...
  
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• Geese rounded up from DC park will be made into meals

  04-08-2017 13:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Officials say 100 pounds of meat from geese caught in a Washington park have been donated to an organization that distributes food to the homeless and others.The National ......
  
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• Man gets 2 years in prison for beheading cat, can't have pet

  04-08-2017 13:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. - An upstate New York man has been sentenced to two years in prison for the gruesome killing of a cat and won't be allowed to have pets ...
  
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• My boss has left and I feel abandoned

  04-08-2017 13:00
  I miss him so much and don’t have a great relationship with my co-workers as they think he favoured me. I find it hard to go to work nowMy boss recently left his job because he and his wife had a baby. It has been extremely hard for me because I followed him to this job in the first place and had worked for him for about three years. There was never any flirting or inappropriate behaviour on either side; he is just an incredibly kind person who was great to everyone. I can’t help but
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s almond cake recipe with strawberries and cream | King of puddings

  04-08-2017 13:00
  There are so many recipes for seductive seasonal strawberries, but they reach no greater hedonistic height than when adorned only with a dusting of sugar and lemon juice alongside this almond cakeI’ve often thought the Eton Mess to be a great allegory for a population done in by the long haul to summer. At the height of the season, when folks are near collapse, gasping towards the holidays, puddings are all bowls of strawberries, meringues and sponges, cream galore and yet more mounds of s
  
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• Cape Breton brewery teams with research group to produce shark-inspired beer

  04-08-2017 12:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HALIFAX - An unlikely partnership between marine scientists and beer maestros is behind a sudsy new brew with a cause.Cape Breton's Big Spruce Brewing just launched a new shark-inspired beer ...
  
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• Steeplechase athlete Ieuan Thomas: 'The World Championships make it all worth it'

  04-08-2017 12:03
  The Welsh track runner on his early racing memories, what gets him out of bed on those dark winter mornings – and the runners who inspired himHi, Ieuan. What have you been up to recently? So much! My girlfriend and I were in London last weekend to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. And then it has just been working, running, eating …Any big races coming up? Yeah, you could say that. Biggest race of my life, I guess. World Athletics Championships steeplechase in front of a home c
  
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• Vegan activists tearfully protest as pigs head to slaughter – in pictures

  04-08-2017 12:00
  The photographer Ruth Iorio, who is not a vegan, attended ‘pig vigils’ in Los Angeles, where passionate demonstrators give pigs destined for slaughter their last drink of waterVegan activists force California butcher to hang animal rights sign in window
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• What I wore this week: the new kaftan

  04-08-2017 10:00
  More practical, less eccentric: a hippy classic gets a makeoverFreshly minted for summer 2017, I give you the non-eccentric kaftan. After half a century of alternative living, the kaftan has gone conventional. Where a kaftan once demanded a rooftop and soft drugs, the new look is perfectly at home on a sunlounger with a Diet Coke.I am not sure I completely approve. I kind of liked the kaftan in its original format. I loved the free-spiritedness, the definitive out-of-office symbolism of joyously
  
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• Israel's 'crown prince' Netanyahu under fire for crude post

  04-08-2017 08:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  JERUSALEM - Since becoming an adult, the eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly drawn media criticism for what has been portrayed as a life of privilege ......
  
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• Novel recipes: wonton soup from The Joy Luck Club

  04-08-2017 07:30
  When life is uncertain, a warming dish of broth can make you feel at home“Time to eat,” Auntie An-mei happily announces, bringing out a steaming pot of the wonton she was just wrapping ... The wonton soup smells wonderful with delicate sprigs of cilantro floating on top.”The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Continue reading...
  
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• Barbecue: watch the trailer for a meaty new documentary – video

  04-08-2017 03:38
  Barbecues are about more than just cooking meat over an open flame. For many, the grill is a pathway to community that crosses cultural boundaries. From Texas to Tokyo, Australian film-makers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker explore the meaning of this simple but emotive ritual around the world. Barbecue is streaming on Netflix from 15 August Continue reading...
  
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• Oyster top-up: vending machines on the cards for French seafood sellers

  04-08-2017 02:14
  Farmers follow in footsteps of other producers of fresh food who once manned roadside stalls for long hours but now use machinesIn a change from chocolates and fizzy drinks, the French are starting to sell fresh oysters from vending machines.One pioneer is Tony Berthelot, an oyster farmer whose automatic dispenser of live oysters on the Ile de Re island off France’s western coast offers a range of quantities, types and sizes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1563 medium

  04-08-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).Buy the Guardian tomorrow or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,267

  04-08-2017 01:00
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