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• Science Says: What we know about cancer risk and coffee

  30-03-2018 21:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Trouble is brewing for coffee lovers in California, where a judge ruled that sellers must post scary warnings about cancer risks. But how frightened should we be of a daily ......
  
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• Art of the streets

  30-03-2018 20:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The Winnipeg Jets 2017-18 National Hockey League campaign has had its share of intriguing storylines, chief among them sophomore sensation Patrik Laine gunning for the league lead in goals, captain ...
  
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• The Social Page: Eye on the arts, Chinese community's International Women's Day Celebration

  30-03-2018 20:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Eye on the artsThe Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) hosted its 19th annual Eye on the Arts benefit auction on March 1 at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg. ...
  
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• 'I've never been so happy': Nobel winner Malala in Pakistan

  30-03-2018 20:00
  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled two years living in fear under the...
  
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• Recalls this week: electric blankets, halogen light bulbs

  30-03-2018 18:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Electric blankets that can overheat and start a fire are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include faulty halogen light bulbs.Here's a more detailed look:ELECTRIC BLANKETSDETAILS: Shop LC's heated ......
  
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• The It dress that shows how to promote brands and influence people

  30-03-2018 18:01
  £145 green dress epitomises how social-media influencers remain useful marketing toolsThe dress of the summer isn’t by a famous high street brand, nor is it popular because it has been worn by a chart-topping singer or famous actor. The dress everyone wants to get their hands on is by the London-based label Kitri after an influential blogger shared it with her 344,000 Instagram followers.The £145 Gabriella dress – a green, belted shirt-style garment with a black and white
  
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• Cocktail of the week: verdant

  30-03-2018 17:00
  This refreshing sip unites gin, calvados and absinthe with a fiery ginger cordial for a balanced drinkGinger cordial is really easy to make at home, although you do need a fair bit of ginger; if you can, buy it from an Asian food store, because it’ll be much cheaper than in the supermarket. In a blender (we use a NutriBullet), put 500g peeled and roughly chopped fresh ginger, a quarter of a dried chilli (or more, to taste), 900ml water, 710g caster sugar and five dashes of Angostura bitter
  
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• Devotees nailed to crosses on Good Friday in Philippines

  30-03-2018 16:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Seven Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, were nailed to wooden crosses in a Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ's suffering that was watched ...
  
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• Seven ways ... to manage acne

  30-03-2018 15:57
  Acne is almost exclusively associated with teenagers, but hormone fluctuations mean up to half of adult women will also suffer from a breakout of angry pimples at some point in their lives Continue reading...
  
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• California judge rules that coffee requires cancer warning

  30-03-2018 15:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LOS ANGELES - Coffee sellers in California should have to post warnings because the brew may contain an ingredient that's been linked to cancer, a judge has ruled.The culprit is ......
  
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• Bishop's fate highlights China's power amid Vatican talks

  30-03-2018 14:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAIQI, China - The twin-spired church in this southern Chinese village was packed with more than a thousand Catholics observing Good Friday, but the bishop who tends to the congregation ......
  
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• What I wore this week: a waterproof

  30-03-2018 14:00
  A showerproof outfit doesn’t need to relinquish all styleLooking stylish in the rain is advanced-level, letters-after-your-name level chic. Audrey Hepburn manages it in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Humphrey Bogart pulls it off in Casablanca. It is worth noting that these are both essentially divine beings. “Look like Audrey Hepburn” is sadly not a realistic style strategy for most of us.When it rains in Hollywood, the chic response is all blithe, carefree oblivion. No hud
  
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• Readers’ travel photography competition – April: win a trip to Greenland

  30-03-2018 13:33
  If you’ve taken a great travel photo recently, why not enter it in our monthly competition, and give yourself a chance of winning a fantastic nine-night photography holiday to West GreenlandWhether you captured a snowman in Sussex or a temple in Thailand, enter your best travel shot in our monthly competition. We’ll choose and publish the best and the winning image will receive a £200 voucher that can be used against an i-escape stay at one of 1,500 boutique properties worldwid
  
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• No more pain for Philippine devotee nailed to cross for 32nd time

  30-03-2018 13:11
  CUTUD, Philippines (Reuters) - A Philippine man who has been nailed to a cross every Easter for the past 32 years in a Good Friday re-enactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion says he no longer feels...
  
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• I get along with women, but I’m a virgin. Why can’t I get a girlfriend?

  30-03-2018 13:00
  I come from a different culture, but I can’t understand why I never have any success with the dates I’ve been on. Is there some ‘formula’ I’m not able to crack?I am 26-year-old man living in Europe but originally from a country farther east, where the dating culture is different. I have never had sex with a woman. I am well-adjusted to my new home, speak the local language fluently and have great friends. My social life is normal, and while I am introverted, I
  
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• From Daniel Kaluuya to Easter egg hunt kits: this week’s fashion trends

  30-03-2018 13:00
  What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this weekThe One Where No One’s Ready The Friends episode where Joey wears all of Chandler’s clothes. Some say this is now Balenciaga inspo. Continue reading...
  
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• Barn-inspired Dance Studio Rises in Rural Massachusetts

  30-03-2018 13:00
  Each year, Jacob’s Pillow campus in rural Massachusetts, USA, hosts a summer dance festival with more than 200 free performances and other uplifting events. The cultural center challenged Flansburgh Architects to design a 6,000 square foot (557 square meter) dance studio, able to meet the growing needs of the artists all year round.The new building on the site is inspired by the rural barns in the area, but offers the latest in high tech. Its flexible design incorporates mul
  
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• Experience: I birthed a lamb while on a country walk

  30-03-2018 11:59
  I was fresh from the city and hadn’t anticipated my country life being quite so hands-onLast April, my husband, James, and I had friends, Petey and Becky, visiting, and we decided to go for a walk on the South Downs. We’d recently bought a house five minutes from the Downs, in Lewes, East Sussex, and headed towards Mount Caburn, the highest point in the area.We were climbing a steep hill when I saw a sheep lying on its side and not moving. From afar, it looked as if it was dead, but
  
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• My life in sex: the 50-year-old bi-curious gay man

  30-03-2018 11:00
  My fantasies now flip between being caught at the bottom of a naked rugby scrum and wondering what it would be like to pleasure a woman I’ve identified as a gay man since my early teens. I’ve always been happy in my identity and – give or take bullying at school, the nasty experience of coming out to my parents (long since healed), and being diagnosed HIV positive 20 years ago – life has been happy and fulfilling. I’ve had two long-term relationships and have now be
  
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• Antigua Guatemala city guide: what to see plus the best bars, hotels and restaurants

  30-03-2018 11:00
  Thousands of visitors descend on Antigua for its famous Semana Santa celebrations over Easter, but this colonial gem is worth a visit at any time of yearCobblestone streets lined with brightly coloured colonial buildings, a jacaranda-wreathed central plaza, 16th-century ruins and with volcanoes surrounding it … Few cities in Latin America can match Antigua Guatemala (usually referred to as just Antigua) for postcard prettiness. But this Unesco-listed city is about much more than surface-l
  
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• Sweet and low: the 10 best flat shoes – in pictures

  30-03-2018 10:00
  From raffia to fringing and pompoms, put your best foot forward in this season’s loveliest slip-ons, mules and espadrilles Continue reading...
  
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• The best silk pieces for all ages – in pictures

  30-03-2018 08:00
  Move your wardrobe subtly into spring with a swish of silk. Think tonal colours, rather than sexy black, and the result is fresh and modern Continue reading...
  
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• Christ's 'crown of thorns' tree may help in climate change fight: researchers

  30-03-2018 07:58
  NEOT KEDUMIM, Israel (Reuters) - As the sun beats down on the barren slopes around Jerusalem, a tree of the kind believed to have provided the crown of thorns in Biblical accounts of Jesus Christ's...
  
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• Devotees reenact Good Friday crucifixions in Philippines

  30-03-2018 06:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Thousands of Filipino Roman Catholic devotees and tourists descended Friday on a farming village north of Manila to witness the crucifixion of several men in ......
  
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• Filipino devotees reenact Good Friday crucifixion

  30-03-2018 05:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Thousands of Filipino Roman Catholic devotees and tourists have descended on a farming village north of Manila to witness the crucifixion of several men in ......
  
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• Huge chocolate statues spring up in Belgium

  30-03-2018 01:03
  DURBUY, Belgium (Reuters) - It sounds like a chocoholic's dreamland - giant sculptures of elephants and flamingos all crafted from Belgian chocolate.
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,470

  30-03-2018 01:00
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• CDC director pledges to bring opioid epidemic 'to its knees'

  30-03-2018 00:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The new director of the top U.S. public health agency on Thursday pledged to work to bring the nation's opioid epidemic "to its knees" and said he ......
  
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• Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out'

  30-03-2018 00:29
  As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel...
  
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