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• No recall of romaine in Canada, but CFIA keeping tabs on E. coli outbreak in U.S.

  23-04-2018 23:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has not ordered a recall of romaine lettuce, despite an outbreak of E. coli cases in the U.S. linked to the popular salad ......
  
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• CDC chief makes $375K, far exceeding his predecessors' pay

  23-04-2018 21:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The new head of the nation's top public health agency is getting paid nearly twice what his predecessor made and far more than other past directors, government ......
  
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• Doctors must get better at diagnosing patients with darker skin: Dermatologists

  23-04-2018 21:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - About a month ago, a frustrated Emma Schmidt turned to Google for help. The 28-year-old Regina teacher was tired of the acne-related dark spots on her face. A ...
  
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• It's a boy: 'Very excited' Prince William takes Kate home after birth of prince

  23-04-2018 21:01
  LONDON (Reuters) - Kate, wife of Prince William, smiled and waved as she left hospital on Monday after giving birth to a boy who is now fifth in line to the British throne.
  
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• Veteran who survived blast receives unusual penis transplant

  23-04-2018 20:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - A veteran who lost his genitals from a blast in Afghanistan has received the world's most extensive penis transplant, and doctors said Monday he is recovering well and ...
  
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• All dolled up for Britain's royal wedding

  23-04-2018 19:12
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Like many Americans, Shirley Lee fell in love with Meghan Markle and Britain's Prince Harry the day they announced their engagement last November.
  
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• ‘Unlike Hillary Clinton, I have never wanted to be someone’s wife’

  23-04-2018 19:05
  After writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grilled the former US presidential candidate about why the first word on her Twitter bio is ‘wife’, Clinton said she would think about changing it. Why do women still let their domestic roles define them?Hillary Clinton: “Wife, mom, grandma, women+kids advocate, Flotus, senator, SecState, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, 2016 presidential candidate.” To be clear, this is not how Wide Awoke would describe Clinton. It’s her own Twi
  
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• How to redesign the vaginal speculum

  23-04-2018 18:23
  The number of women going for cervical tests is at its lowest in 19 years. An all-women team at the US design firm behind early Apple computers hopes that replacing the 19th-century metal tool with their silicone model will help change thatYou lie back, legs wide. You relax as much as you can. Anxiety makes you clench, because someone you probably don’t know is about to insert an implement into your vagina. This procedure is what most of us call a smear test (its official name is “ce
  
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• European rights court rejects case on terminally ill toddler

  23-04-2018 18:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - The European Court of Human Rights on Monday rejected a case from British parents who want to take their terminally ill toddler to Italy for treatment instead of ...
  
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• URI will try to improve fisheries management in Philippines

  23-04-2018 18:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The University of Rhode Island says it will use a $25 million federal grant to help improve the Philippines' struggling fishing industry.The Coastal Resources Center at URI's ......
  
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• UK man convicted of hate crime for Nazi-salute dog video

  23-04-2018 16:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - A Scottish man who filmed a dog appearing to give Nazi salutes has been convicted of a hate crime and fined.Mark Meechan filmed his girlfriend's pug responding to ...
  
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• Turin fixes legal loophole, registers babies of gay parents

  23-04-2018 16:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ROME - The Italian city of Turin has moved to fill a legal loophole by registering three babies born to gay parents who conceived abroad via artificial insemination.Mayor Chiara Appendino ...
  
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• Girl Talk! How queer pop came out

  23-04-2018 16:06
  It has been 10 years since Katy Perry released I Kissed a Girl, a global hit that fetishised lesbians. Now with mainstream stars from St Vincent and Princess Nokia to Halsey and Marika Hackman singing about their myriad sexual identities, it’s time to put sapphic stereotypes to bedThe LGBT community has always had a talent for embracing things that are so awful they could almost be good. But even we couldn’t save Katy Perry’s 2008 smash hit I Kissed a Girl, which was released 1
  
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• Etiquette and protocol highlights for royal wedding guests

  23-04-2018 15:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Grab those nude stockings, ladies. You'll be at a royal wedding, after all.While the May 19 nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be a lower ...
  
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• Spatzle Primavera is made with vegetables, cream and cheese

  23-04-2018 15:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Springtime is the right time for Pasta Primavera, which is, after all, the Italian word for spring. There's some controversy about who invented this wonderful dish, but everyone agrees that ...
  
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• No frills over 40? Why you should ignore age-based fashion rules

  23-04-2018 15:26
  Former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman would like to ban frills and bows on anyone over the age of 40. Where’s the fun in that?My mother made many of our clothes when we were small and, in her book, frills and little girls were a match made in heaven. Also, she believed women went into sartorial retirement the moment they had their first baby. Having had five kids before she was 30, she wisely relented on the latter point. Unfortunately, however, either her dressmaking skills, or the speed
  
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• Iran police's assault on woman over headscarf stirs debate

  23-04-2018 14:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TEHRAN, Iran - A grainy video of female officers from Iran's morality police assaulting a young woman whose headscarf only loosely covered her hair has sparked a new public debate ...
  
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• I want to eat a 'veggie sausage', not a 'mycoproteinous food tube' | Phoebe-Jane Boyd

  23-04-2018 14:41
  France is banning producers of meat-substitute food from using words like ‘burger’ as it’s ‘misleading’. As double-standards go, this is a whopperMycoprotein, fusarium venenatum, fermentation, albumen, cultures, coagulating, curdling – these aren’t tasty words. Some of them are quite disgusting, actually. But if you’re vegan or vegetarian and incorporate meat substitutes into your daily diet, you’ll recognise them as the words in tiny font on
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises

  23-04-2018 14:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Americans overwhelmingly believe teachers don't make enough money, and half say they'd support paying higher taxes to give educators a raise.The findings of the new poll from The ...
  
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• Pope offers gelato to Rome's neediest to mark feast day

  23-04-2018 14:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is offering up 3,000 servings of gelato to Rome's neediest.Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, funded the special dessert Monday for guests at Rome ......
  
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• 5 Feng Shui Home Decor Tips for A Peaceful, Prosperous Space

  23-04-2018 14:01
  The recent celebration of Chinese New Year ushered in the Year of the Dog. The dog is an animal known for it’s loyalty, faithfulness and, especially, it’s ability to remain perfectly happy and content spending time at home with it’s family. In the spirit of Chinese New Year, here are some ancient Chinese feng shui home tips to help you remain happy and content at home by creating a perfectly peaceful and prosperous space.What is feng shui?Feng shui is an ancient Chinese art. Th
  
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• My friend and I are buying a house – but I'm paying the whole deposit

  23-04-2018 13:02
  I need advice on setting up a deed of trust so I get the £51,000 I’ve paid in back when we sell Q My friend and I are buying a house together. It’s very exciting but also very confusing to know how everything works.We are going to have a declaration of trust drawn up which needs to take account of the fact that I am contributing the whole of the deposit of £51,000 which is 15% of the £340,000 value. We are splitting all legal fees, stamp duty, home improvements and
  
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• Five quick recipes for supermarket pasta

  23-04-2018 13:00
  For a cheat meal, upgrade ready-made tortellini in minutes, or make a speedy lasagne that’s lazy but luxuriousPasta has me hooked like nothing else. My love affair with pasta was cemented in the making of stuffed agnolotti, caramelle and everything in between in restaurant kitchens, but it started with something simpler: my mum’s lasagne and her 10-minute weeknight dinners. When there is pasta in the house, there is a meal to be had. This lasagne is the quickest I’ve made, read
  
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• 10 of the best wild cycle rides in the UK

  23-04-2018 12:27
  A bicycle is the perfect way to explore the countryside. These off-grid routes, from mountainous lung-busters to scenic family rides, explore history as well as wildernessThe Malvern Hills are wilderness in the Midlands, outliers of the Welsh mountains and beloved by artists, writers, poets and composers. The Malverns were composer (and keen cyclist) Edward Elgar’s muse, and the inspiration for 14th-century poet William Langland, whose famous work Piers Plowman includes the words: “O
  
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• Could a robot play snooker? | Notes and queries

  23-04-2018 12:15
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsCould a robot play snooker?Eric Ludlow, Leicester Continue reading...
  
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• Crossword blog: try our American-style puzzle No 7: Money talks

  23-04-2018 11:20
  Another puzzle in our ‘American-style’ series – along with some tips on how to tackle itIf you’re already familiar with this puzzle series, here’s the latest in digital or printable form – and do candidly let us know what you think. If not, read on.And if any of you are considering my invitation to construct a puzzle for these pages, the New York Times’ crossword blog has begun a delightful series on how to go from idea to solver-ready grid. Continue rea
  
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• 'It's limitless:' Paralyzed toddler moves from homemade wheelchair to treadmill

  23-04-2018 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  EDMONTON - Evelyn Moore sings the alphabet song as her tiny running shoes plunk down on the treadmill.The paralyzed 2 1/2-year old is strapped to the machine with a special ......
  
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• Turkey bounces back as package holiday favourite

  23-04-2018 10:00
  Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia on the road to recovery, according to Thomas Cook Holiday ReportTurkey is outselling mainland Spain and the Canary islands as British holidaymakers return to the destination in big numbers.Package holidays to Turkey are up 84% year on year, according to Thomas Cook – a growth being fuelled by families, who account for 61% of bookings. The country is also seeing the highest number of return customers of any of Thomas Cook’s destinations. Visitor numbers to Tu
  
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• My partner wants me to have sex with other men. I find it very strange

  23-04-2018 09:00
  He thinks I want to sleep with others – and would even like to be involved himself. But I’ve never suggested it and have no idea where this idea is coming fromMy partner of seven years would like me to go out and have sex with other men. He would also like, occasionally, to be involved himself. He seems to think that I want this myself, and that it will make me happy, but I have never suggested nor wanted it. He says he wants me to do whatever I&nbs
  
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• Exposed: the laws that allow rogue traders to duck their debts

  23-04-2018 08:00
  Unscrupulous builders can close an insolvent firm, then start afresh under a new name, leaving homeowners who have paid deposits thousands of pounds out of pocket – and with unfinished workPensioner James Bidwell* decided to invest his savings in a conservatory and bifold doors at his home in Sevenoaks, Kent. Sussex Double Glazing submitted a tempting estimate via a job quote website and its director, Luke Tester, visited Bidwell’s house to assess the job in February 2017.The quote w
  
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• Beyond cookies: Thousands of girls are becoming Cub Scouts

  23-04-2018 07:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DURHAM, N.H. - Ten-year-old twins Tatum and Ian Weir aren't about to let matching, minor injuries deter them from their goal of becoming the first sister-brother pair of Eagle Scouts."I ......
  
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• There's a cup of coffee for everyone

  23-04-2018 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If there were a choose-your-own-adventure guide to finding a coffee maker, there would be four choices to determine how the plot would twist.First, paper filter or metal filter. Then, immersion ...
  
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• Science fails to take into account tiny male mind

  23-04-2018 07:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Now that they’ve finished curing all known diseases and exploring every corner of the universe, it seems scientists have finally decided to try their hands at something useful.For instance, according ...
  
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• Motherly love

  23-04-2018 07:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Every holiday has a food or meal that is synonymous with it: Halloween is full of candy and chocolate, Thanksgiving has its turkey dinner and pie and Mother's Day always ...
  
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• A local’s guide to Kendal and the southern Lake District: 10 top tips

  23-04-2018 07:30
  The Lakes’ southern gateway opens up fantastic hiking, cycling and running routes and plenty of spots to savour the views and refuel, says the director of Kendal Mountain FestivalKendal is a vibrant, growing town of almost 30,000 people in South Lakeland and is also a gateway to the Lake District national park – itself a Unesco world heritage site. The town, eight miles south-east of Windermere, is listed in the Domesday book but while there is history to explore, it is the opportuni
  
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