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• Pope's sex abuse advisers also look into children of priests

  24-09-2017 19:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis' committee of advisers on protecting children from sexually abusive priests is expanding its workload to include the needs and rights of children fathered by Roman ......
  
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• Dolce & Gabbana play their trump card with queen of hearts collection

  24-09-2017 17:30
  MILAN (Reuters) - Dolce & Gabbana, fashion's most famous duo, played their trump card on Sunday with their spring summer 2018 collection themed around the queen of hearts in one of the final shows at...
  
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• Forget fur – is it time to stop wearing wool?

  24-09-2017 17:00
  Animal rights charity Peta is best known for its naked anti-fur stunts, but these days it is more worried about wool. Co-founder Ingrid Newkirk explains why shearing is sheer crueltyWhile anti-fur protesters were busy mobbing London fashion week earlier this month, Ingrid Newkirk, the co-founder and president of Peta, was otherwise engaged. She was in Israel, “leading a 30,000-strong march through the streets against live export”, she says. She enunciates the words slowly, with empha
  
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• Sleep expert Dr. Harvey Karp on postpartum, modern caregiving

  24-09-2017 16:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Any parent will recall the sleep-addled days of having a newborn, and the fears, depression and anxiety that often comes with suddenly being responsible for a vulnerable life.Many ......
  
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• 'Absolutely terrifying:' Family faced big medical bill despite travel insurance

  24-09-2017 16:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CALGARY - The family of a father who fell ill following a hiking trip to Spain to memorialize his soldier son says they were faced with a massive medical bill ...
  
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• Ferragamo breaths fresh air into summer with outdoor show

  24-09-2017 12:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Milan designers are breathing fresh air into Milan Fashion Week, quite literally.Many fashion houses are showing their collections outdoors this season, or at least throwing open the windows on their ......
  
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• Why India's farmers want to conserve indigenous heirloom rice

  24-09-2017 12:00
  India was once home to 100,000 rice varieties, but high-yield, less hardy hybrids have taken over encouraging farmers to safeguard more resistant strainsIndia is rice country: the cereal provides daily sustenance for more than 60% of the population. Half a century ago, it was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties, encompassing a stunning diversity in taste, nutrition, pest-resistance and, crucially in this age of climate change and natural disasters, adaptability to a range of conditions.Toda
  
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• Why we are hard wired to watch pornography | Daniel Glaser

  24-09-2017 10:30
  A mirroring system in the brain means watching an activity can help us enjoy it moreThe launch of David Simon’s new series The Deuce (starting on 26 September), has thrust pornography back into the spotlight. One of the most famous neuroscientific discoveries of the last decade probably plays a role.This is the finding of a ‘mirror neuron’ in the cortex of a macaque monkey, so named because it fires both when the monkey sees an action and when it performs it – ‘mirr
  
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• The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science

  24-09-2017 09:00
  Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s – and what you can do about itMatthew Walker has learned to dread the question “What do you do?” At parties, it signals the end of his evening; thereafter, his new acquaintance will inevitably cling to him like ivy. On an aeroplane, it usually means that while everyone else watches movies or reads a thriller, he will find himself running an hours-l
  
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• I cancelled Virgin Active membership but it kept on taking my money

  24-09-2017 08:00
  I also realised belatedly that it had been overcharging me from the startI took out gym membership with Virgin Active in April 2016. Through my health insurer, Vitality, I was eligible for a plan discounted to £100 a month, which could be cancelled at any time. However, the rep persuaded me to set it up as a normal account, costing £134 a month and requiring 12 months’ notice to cancel, which they would convert into a £100 Vitality account. This would make the first parti
  
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• Why it’s never too late for humans to change

  24-09-2017 07:00
  With an almost boundless capacity to learn, people are more able to change than we thinkPanta rhei. Everything flows. This aphorism was supposedly coined by Heraclitus nearly 3,000 years ago. It was his belief that nothing remains as it is; the only constant is change. Most of us would agree unreservedly with this idea. After all, we see the world changing every day as we go about our lives – and that’s not only true of everything, but of everyone, too.Children become adults, eloquen
  
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• VR is no match for the empathetic generation | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Pioneers of virtual reality are enabling us to experience everything from childbirth to sexism. But for the ‘hyperempathetic’ there’s nothing you can teach us about each other’s feelingsThis weekend an art show in support of End Violence Against Women (EVAW), a charity dedicated to doing what it says on the tin, is providing a virtual reality (VR) experience: stepping into the shoes of women experiencing sexism and street harassment. The idea is to “give men and wom
  
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• The day I photographed the Queen and her dogs at Balmoral

  24-09-2017 07:00
  It’s 1967, and a terrified young American photographer is commissioned to shoot our monarch at homeI was a fledgling photographer, just starting out in London in 1967. The Observer called and asked me if I’d like to shoot the Queen. The thought of it really scared the pants off me, so I said: “I don’t think I can.” I’m not going to tell you what my wife said to me when I told her.So I had second thoughts and I phoned them back. They said: “We want to sho
  
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• Seoul Kimchi: ‘The soup should be offered on prescription’ – review

  24-09-2017 07:00
  This tiny restaurant is as uncomfortable as it gets, but the Korean cooking makes it all worthwhileSeoul Kimchi, 275 Upper Brook Street, Manchester M13 0HR (0161 273 5556). Meal for two, excluding wine: £30-£45The cab rumbles down a broad street just to the south of Manchester city centre, of the sort even its planner would struggle to love. To one side is the hefty sprawl of the Royal Infirmary. To the other is the blood centre. If you’re leaking, or bits of you are falling of
  
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• Questions of taste: a culinary quiz

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Killian Fox has just compiled a book of weird and wonderful food facts. Test your knowledge in his fiendish quiz1 Which British crime writer ate the same thing for virtually every meal: bacon and fried eggs, then sat on her bed enjoying cigarettes, coffee and a doughnut, her intention “to avoid any sense of discipline and make the act of writing as pleasurable as possible”?
  a) Agatha Christie
  b) Patricia Highsmith
  c) Dorothy L Sayers2 The world’s oldest noodles were unearthed d
  
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• Nigel Slater’s end-of-season vegetable and herb recipes

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Make the most of the late summer glut with delicious baked vegetable tarts and herb-crusted tomatoesThere have been cries for help this week over what to do with the end-of-season vegetables and herbs – the final few stragglers on the vegetable plot. In particular the last shout from the tomatoes, courgettes, marrows and basil. “Can I freeze a glut of basil?” “Where are all the courgette recipes?” “WTF do I do with yet another marrow?”This week I made tw
  
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• My daughter is dating a much older man | Mariella Frostrup

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup says a father’s anger at his daughter’s relationship is understandable – but may be to do with his own unresolved pastThe dilemma I have a 23-year-old daughter. Her mother and I split up when she was seven due to her mother’s infidelity. I still see my daughter regularly and she is close to my wife and the two other children we have. My daughter didn’t have a “proper” boyfriend until she was in her late teens. Last week I was informed t
  
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• Inside my art gallery home | Kate Jacobs

  24-09-2017 07:00
  Art sets the tone in each room of this home, a gallery with a difference. Kate Jacobs is given a private view
  When Jemma Hickman launched the bo.lee gallery in Bath nine years ago, her choice of artists was intuitive. “I would ask myself, would I want to hang this piece in my own home?” she says. This proved to be a prescient principle as, having brought the business to London in 2012, she decided to look for a space that was a home and gallery in one.This decision was partly down to
  
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• East European wines: Bulgaria’s cheerful best | David Williams

  24-09-2017 07:00
  A keenly priced Chardonnay, Shiraz and Viognier, all benefiting from BrexitDomaine Boyar Deer Point Chardonnay, Bulgaria 2016 (£7.55, Oxford Wine) The word from wine retailers is that Brexit is good news for eastern and central European wine producers. Majestic, for example, recently put out a press release trumpeting a 400% increase in sales of wines from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovenia in the past year, which they say is down to people trying to find value for money now that the
  
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• Chin Chin's sticky date pudding with red date caramel sauce

  24-09-2017 01:09
  Chef behind Melbourne’s – and now Sydney’s – popular Thai restaurant proves he’s just at good at desserts No meal is complete without dessert. In the last in our recipe series from Chin Chin chef Benjamin Cooper, he offers up an easy but delicious pudding that can be preprepared or served fresh.Continue reading...
  
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• Simone Rocha: ‘With every show I’m telling a story’

  24-09-2017 01:06
  Simone Rocha’s feminine but edgy clothes have won awards and found many fans. She talks to Alice Fisher about being inspired by nature and why she puts women at the centre of everything she doesDe Beauvoir Town in Hackney is known for many things, but bucolic views is not one of them. Yet look out of Simone Rocha’s office window and all you see is leaves and water. Somehow she’s found a rare spot along this busy stretch of the Regent’s Canal where a climbing vine has smot
  
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• Best new season buys for autumn/winter 2017 – in pictures

  24-09-2017 00:50
  From floral dresses to sock boots, cords and statement earrings, here are 15 trends to try this season Continue reading...
  
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• The great cover up: modest dressing – in pictures

  24-09-2017 00:45
  Long skirts, generously cut tops, opulent knits and rich textures all make modesty this autumn’s big new trend Continue reading...
  
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