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• Southwest 'casta' paintings spotlight race, popular culture

  10-03-2018 17:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The painting shows masked Mexican rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos in a purple three-piece suit, paired with Britney Spears in a Wonder Woman costume. Their child is a ......
  
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• Study: Cholesterol drug lowers risk of death, heart attack

  10-03-2018 16:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. - A newer cholesterol drug, used with older statin medicines, modestly lowered heart risks and deaths in a big study of heart attack survivors that might persuade insurers ...
  
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• Escape rooms good for team building, relationships

  10-03-2018 15:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Mitchell Graham and Stephanie Berrellez knew each other for only a week before they decided to travel together. They met online, had their first date at the U.S. beer restaurant ......
  
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• "Dumpster fire" added to dictionary

  10-03-2018 15:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In 2008, a user at Urban Dictionary defined the “dumpster fire.” The figurative one, that is: 1. A complete disaster; 2. Something very difficult that nobody wants to deal with.“It’s ...
  
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• Olympic skeleton champion Lizzie Yarnold: how I eat

  10-03-2018 13:00
  What does the athlete put in to come out with those gold medals? A lot of tea, for startersDuring the winter months, we’re away, sliding and training, but on a typical summer training day back in the UK at Bath University, I wake up hungry at 6.30am. I have a cup of tea straight away, then two slices of toast with salted butter, sometimes with marmalade on one, and always with two eggs (scrambled, boiled, or poached). Then I leave for the gym with another cup of tea. Continue reading...
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for peanut and broccoli pad thai

  10-03-2018 10:30
  A vegan twist on Thailand’s national dishIn the late 1930s, Thailand’s prime minister held a public competition to find a new national noodle dish. The winning entry was a dish that combined rice noodles, vegetables, peanuts, shrimp and egg, and it was named “pad Thai” in a bid to promote Thai-ness. This vegan interpretation of that classic dish celebrates the brilliance of the original, while also bringing in something new in the form of purple sprouting broccoli. I&rsqu
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s noodle recipes

  10-03-2018 10:00
  From udon with orange to sea spaghetti with tahini, these dishes show off the spectrum of textures and flavours offered up by the versatile noodleI’m often asked what my guilty food pleasure is, and my reply is usually: “I don’t mix guilt with pleasure.” But if pressed, I’ll come up with another answer: “Pot Noodles.” I know several chefs who are more than happy to pour boiling water into a plastic cup for their dinner, especially after many hours of &ld
  
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• Déjà you? The rise of the five-year trend

  10-03-2018 09:30
  Fashion used to operate on two seasons a year. Now trends are staying in fashion for years, not months. From now on, fads are out and personal style is in• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementSo there I was, perched on my gilt chair at the Paris haute couture shows one evening in January, waiting for the Givenchy show to start, fiddling with the satin ribbons that cinch the wrists of my favourite new Mother of Pearl sweater, idling th
  
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• The Fashion - hottest fashion item for men s/s18 children

  10-03-2018 09:00
  The world’s most influential brand billed its recent show as ‘young dad in the park with their kids’. But a trip to the swings wearing clothes straight from Paris left one ‘daddy blogger’ feeling far from catwalk-ready• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementFlawless. Avant garde. Cutting edge. These are words that have absolutely nothing to do with my personal style. Knackered. Functional. Occasionally smar
  
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• ‘I left my pride somewhere near the swings’ – dressing as a Balenciaga dad

  10-03-2018 09:00
  Fashion’s most influential brand chose to celebrate fatherhood for S/S18. So how did a ‘daddy blogger’ fare wearing clothes straight from the Paris catwalk to the park?• Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementFlawless. Avant garde. Cutting edge. These are words that have absolutely nothing to do with my personal style. Knackered. Functional. Occasionally smart … That’s a bit more like it, I’m afraid.
  
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• Can I cook like Jay Z? | Stephen Bush

  10-03-2018 09:00
  With little in common with the superstar musician but a mild obsession with Italian food, our columnist tries to live the dream by indulging in a shared passion for pasta.Jay-Z and I have a lot in common: we’re both black, we’re both phenomenally successful musicians and we both love Italian food. Well, two out of three ain’t bad. Where we differ is that I love to cook and eat Italian, but Jay-Z prefers to get his in restaurants.He and Beyoncé are regularly spotted
  
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• Kanye West collaborator Virgil Abloh: 'My brand started in the alleys of the internet'

  10-03-2018 08:15
  His label, Off-White, has the kind of millennial fanbase that more established fashion houses can only dream of. So what lies behind Abloh’s fascination with Princess Diana? • Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementVirgil Abloh doesn’t have a desk. The designer has a label, Off-White, one of the most hyped in fashion, which is based in Milan – but no workplace from which to run it. Instead he works on the street, in car
  
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• What links clownfish, African reed frog, wrasse, moray eel and gobies? The Weekend quiz

  10-03-2018 08:00
  From the moon to Mojang, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Where are the speeches supposedly limited to 45 seconds?
  2 What land was located “on the east of Eden”?
  3 Which book set off a hunt for a buried golden hare?
  4 The point on the moon’s orbit closest to Earth is called what?
  5 Which sports league contains teams from England, France and Canada?
  6 Where would a kelpie be encountered?
  7 What was divided along the 38th parallel north?
  8 Elizabeth Ann Seton was the fi
  
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• Top 20 art exhibitions to visit on a European city break in 2018

  10-03-2018 08:00
  From Grayson Perry in Helsinki to Frida Kahlo in Budapest, an exhibition makes a brilliant focal point to city break. Here are 20 of this year’s best, with arty hotels to matchDates | 8 Mar-3 June
  Best in show | RembrandtRembrandt’s wedding portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit – his only life-size, standing, full-length portraits – were jointly purchased by the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre for €160m in 2016, and this is the first chance to see them – in
  
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• Jungle tales: village-based tourism in Thailand

  10-03-2018 08:00
  Away from Thailand’s popular island destinations, inland, amid exotic fauna and flora, there are unspoiled villages where visitors can stay with local people‘Snake!” My guide’s shout shattered the peace of the lazy Sok river in Khao Sok national park, southern Thailand. He grabbed the rubber ring I was floating in and dragged me to an overhanging branch to gaze up at the black and yellow coils. For someone with ophidiophobia – fear of snakes – it wasn’t
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘I hadn’t realised that fermentation is so vital to the gut’ | Zoe Williams

  10-03-2018 08:00
  If you like your health awareness with a side-order of self-flagellation, fermentation is quite deliciousThe problem with the science of diet is that if you’re only partially interested, gobbets of information go in and stick, surrounded by great gaps that you fill by whistling and not quite caring. So, I know that the microbial environment of the gut is crucial to good health and longevity. And that fermentation is vital to the gut, though I didn’t realise how vital until I spoke to
  
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• Bad boss? Oh, you don't slay...

  10-03-2018 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Here is one of the things I have learned in my years as a big-shot newspaper columnist — some news stories are so alarming, they leave you totally alarmed.For instance, ......
  
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• Toxic work environment

  10-03-2018 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It has all the trappings of a Hollywood spy thriller.Last Sunday afternoon, a man and a woman were found unconscious on a bench in a shopping mall in Salisbury, a ...
  
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• My family after the Holocaust: ‘The urge to draw a line under the past is strong’

  10-03-2018 07:00
  Our grandparents lived through the horror of the war. So why do we want to reclaim our German nationality?‘Go and get back what was taken from us,” my eldest daughter said as I left the house to meet my brother at the German embassy in London. We had to attend in person to receive our naturalisation certificates, and I had little notion of just how powerful a moment this would prove to be.My mother, Eva, was seven when her family left Berlin in 1939. They were assimilated Jews, born
  
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• Blind date: ‘Did we kiss? That was never going to happen’

  10-03-2018 07:00
  MA student Adelheid, 26, meets auditor Harry, 35What were you hoping for?
  A fun and pleasant evening with someone who shares the same interests. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,926

  10-03-2018 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,453

  10-03-2018 01:00
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