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• Ottawa urged to release historic data on Inuit tuberculosis treatment

  11-09-2017 22:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  One of the country's strongest international voices in the fight against AIDS says Canada owes the Inuit a full explanation of what happened to relatives removed from their homes to ...
  
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• Fenty x Puma by Rihanna: ethnically diverse and exuberant

  11-09-2017 20:47
  The pop star is making inroads in fashion with an impressive show combining motocross stunts and colourful surf aesthetics It takes a lot to get the fashion crowd properly revved up at a catwalk show, but Rihanna pulled it off at her Fenty x Puma show in New York on Sunday night.It wasn’t the clothes that had the style press on the edge of their seats as much as the preamble, during which a team of motocross stunt performers vroomed up ramps and were propelled into the air to perform somer
  
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• How cycling is keeping the fight for women’s rights moving in Saudi Arabia

  11-09-2017 19:53
  Baraah Luhaid is determined to cycle freely, and she is encouraging other women to join Spokes Hub, her gender-inclusive cycling communitySaudi Arabia remains one of the world’s most repressive countries for women, where a man’s consent is obligatory for women to access human rights, and feminist activists risk arrest. Some changes are creeping in: King Salman has loosened the grip of male guardianship, and is encouraging women to work. But they are still not allowed to drive.Th
  
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• Catholic leaders decry Dems' questioning of judicial pick

  11-09-2017 19:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Roman Catholic leaders are objecting to Democratic senators' line of questioning for one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, arguing the focus on her faith is misplaced and ......
  
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• Ottawa should release historic data on Inuit tuberculosis treatment: Lewis

  11-09-2017 19:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  One of Canada's strongest international voices in the fight against AIDS is turning his attention to what he calls the shocking incidence of tuberculosis in his country's own backyard.Stephen Lewis, ...
  
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• Nordstrom is opening concept store that has no inventory

  11-09-2017 18:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SEATTLE - Nordstrom is opening up a store that doesn't have any inventory.The luxury department store chain says its Nordstrom Local concept store will open in Los Angeles next month.The ...
  
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• Laptops are great, but not if it means the end of handwriting

  11-09-2017 16:55
  Students are now so dependent on their laptops for writing that they may soon be allowed to use them in university exams. But writing by hand is still an important skillStudents’ handwriting is now so rubbish that Cambridge University may allow them to use laptops in their exams instead of pen and paper. The poor examiners have been struggling to read scripts, and the students struggling to write them. And if Cambridge does it, then everybody else will probably do it, and it will be goodby
  
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• Chicken lasagne and boiled potatoes? Theresa May's dismal menu

  11-09-2017 16:26
  Aside from chicken pasta dishes being almost unheard of in Italy, this meal – served to the prime minister’s key staff during election planning in February – is a carb-on-carb car crashIf you needed further proof that Britain has given up on the European project, you can’t get much better than the lunch the prime minister served her top brass at Chequers in February, as they plotted their election strategy, as described in a new book about the 2017 campaign, Betting the H
  
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• Why does Steve Bannon wear all his shirts at once?

  11-09-2017 16:21
  The former White House chief strategist appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday in his favourite look – two shirts on top of each other, plus a blazer for added warmthSteve Bannon may have left the White House, but his wardrobe – much like his politics – continues to trouble us. Last night, appearing on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist appeared to be wearing a black shirt under another black shirt, teamed with a black blazer. A millefeuille of black
  
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• When is the right time to buy a property?

  11-09-2017 15:45
  I have savings, currently rent, but might not be in the area for more than a couple of years. Should I buy?Q I live in a university town in the south-east of England. I am contracted to stay here for two years. After that I may or may not get another job in the same town, but I’m not so attached to it that I’d want to stay if there wasn’t the compelling reason of a job.I have £280,000 invested offshore (a combination of life savings and proceeds from the sale of a flat) w
  
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• Malfunction of the Melania-bot: was the first lady’s Missoni dress an act of rebellion?

  11-09-2017 14:31
  The long, loose knitted dress was the sartorial equivalent of slapping Donald Trump’s hand away – but the style deviation didn’t last longHave you detected any indications of nascent resistance in recent clothes choices made by Flotus Melania Trump?
  Marina, west London
  PS I think he would hate any MissoniYou raise a beady-eyed point, Marina. I, too, was taken aback by Melania’s recent choice of a long, loose, knitted Missoni dress for her trip to Camp David, and if you&rs
  
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• Crossword roundup: DJs hiding in the corners

  11-09-2017 14:19
  A lot of classical music, a couple of giants and a little bit of fringe politics in the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues …A tweet of delight from Classic FM’s Tim Lihoreau: Continue reading...
  
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• Functional London Apartment Opens to Landscaped Rear Garden

  11-09-2017 13:00
  EMR Home Design completed the renovation of a modern ground floor apartment in London, in the United Kingdom. The renovation involved a contemporary rear extension alongside full internal refurbishment.“Recently completed in early 2017, the property boasts an open plan, light and spacious kitchen and living room with floor to ceiling sliding doors onto a newly designed landscaped rear garden,” the designers explained. The aesthetic value is enhaced by its location in a charming
  
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• Anna Jones’s recipe for plum, lime and peanut salad | The modern cook

  11-09-2017 13:00
  Summer might be over, but the new season’s plums, in all their glorious autumnal hues, will keep mealtimes vibrant. Try this seasonal variation on a summer salad, and this gin-spiked sorbetSummer wanes and autumn shows its face. This year, I am less ready for the change of season than ever before, but the show of plums has softened the blow a little. Buff yellow and inky purple victorias; tight, black-purple, dusty damsons; and fluffily verdant greengages – plums are coming out in al
  
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• Ivy League graduate and dance champion crowned Miss America

  11-09-2017 09:08
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Reuters) - An Ivy League graduate and national dance champion from North Dakota was crowned Miss America on Sunday, becoming the first contestant from the state to win the nearly...
  
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• My wife has come out as gay – is my sex life over?

  11-09-2017 09:00
  We have long had a low-sex marriage but continue to share a lot. At 69, is it time to switch off my sex drive and make peace with the situation? I love my wife. I’m 69 and she is 71. We have long had a low-sex marriage and now she has “come out” to herself and to me as a lesbian. At least I now understand that it’s not my “fault”. I’m just the wrong sex. We have a good life; we have shared and continue to share a lot. So how
  
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• Bocce can't eat just one

  11-09-2017 07:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It was Thursday night and I was feeling just a tad depressed as we trudged off the pitch.This was partly because my bocce team had just been mercilessly battered by ......
  
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• Rihanna rides into New York Fashion Week like a rock star

  11-09-2017 07:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Rihanna didn't walk into New York Fashion Week. She rode through it.Literally.The pop star and fashionista kicked off her Fenty Puma 2018 spring-summer collection Sunday with motocross ......
  
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• Want to be happier? First, work out if you’re an ‘upholder’ or a ‘rebel’

  11-09-2017 07:00
  Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin says there are four basic personality types, and improving your life is all about working out whether you conform or rise upIn the often-woolly world of personal development, Gretchen Rubin is a practical and grounded sort. She doesn’t even – shock – like meditation. Rubin has spent the past decade researching and writing about happiness. A former lawyer, it was her fifth book, The Happiness Project written in 2009 – for which she spent a y
  
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• Can too little sleep ruin your relationship?

  11-09-2017 07:00
  Lack of shut-eye has long been linked to a range of serious health problems. Now a study confirms that it can also be at the root of strife between couplesIs your partner irritating? Have you stopped having a laugh, gone off sex and no longer care if they seem unhappy? Before you reach for a counsellor or lawyer, check how much sleep you are getting. While research has consistently linked lack of sleep with increased risks of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and premature death, it is no
  
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• Record heat hit California wine regions around harvest time

  11-09-2017 00:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN FRANCISCO - The record head that baked Northern California over the Labor Day weekend left wine grapes shriveling on the vines, reducing many of them to raisins before the ......
  
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