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• Buy a sofa, hire a helper: Handy expands retail partnerships

  07-01-2018 18:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - These days, lots of customers don't want to just buy sell TVs and sofas. They also want someone to come over to hang up the flat screen ......
  
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• Private N.S. island remains unsold after eight years, despite $2.5M price drop

  07-01-2018 16:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HALIFAX - An American family's striking 57-acre private Nova Scotia island remains unsold, eight years after it went on the market and despite a $2.5-million price drop.Now, realtor Mariana Cowan ......
  
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• Was Serena Williams unrealistic to try to return so soon after giving birth?

  07-01-2018 15:00
  The tennis champion has withdrawn from the Australian Open three months after having her first child. So, when is the right time to come back to sport?Being a new parent is exhausting, but there are additional physical challenges for a post-partum mother – including recovery from childbirth, bleeding and dealing with breastfeeding. And those challenges are only magnified when you are a top sports star hoping to return to elite level. Which is why it is perhaps unsurprising that Serena Will
  
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• How Hitler could solve our housing crisis | David Mitchell

  07-01-2018 11:00
  Thanks to the unhappy residents of Bell End, I’ve come up with a foolproof way to stop house prices soaringThe residents of Bell End, like many of us, hope 2018 will bring a fresh start. To be clear, I mean the residents of Bell End, the street in Rowley Regis, not Bell End, the village in Worcestershire. The latter Bell Enders probably hope it’ll be a fresh start too, but not in the same way as the Rowley Regis ones.The English grammatical convention that names of places seldom take
  
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• How Trump helped Twitter find its true purpose | John Naughton

  07-01-2018 08:00
  For years, people wondered what the platform was for, but now we know – it was to help the Donald control the global news agendaThere is a famous story about the great 19th-century statesman Gladstone on the campaign trail. During one of his trademark three-hour speeches, a little girl posed a question to her mother. “Mummy,” she supposedly asked, “what is that man for?” Since Twitter appeared in July 2006, people have asked the same question about it. An incredulou
  
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• I’m struggling to find love through online dating | Dear Mariella

  07-01-2018 07:00
  Learn to make friends first, Mariella Frostrup advises a woman who wants a mateThe dilemma I am 31, with a successful career, friends, my own home and a close family, but I struggle to find relationships with men. Now the time has come where I want to settle down. I usually meet men online, though never really pass date three – this often being my decision. I find it difficult to “fancy” men I have met online, though I have fancied those I’ve met in real life. Sadly these
  
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