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• Familiar music from past may give Alzheimer's patients a cognitive boost: study

  07-11-2018 22:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - It's long been known that Alzheimer's patients often retain musical memories, even when recall of names, faces and places has been lost as the disease relentlesslydestroys ......
  
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• Taste test: the best and worst vegan Christmas sandwiches

  07-11-2018 19:00
  This year, M&S joins a growing number of high-street shops selling meat- and dairy-free Yuletide sarnies. From mock turkey to brussels sprout pesto, which make a festive feast?With the number of vegan Britons quadrupling in the past four years, and one in three of us in the UK reducing the amount of meat we eat, the competition for our festive sandwiches is heating up. Marks & Spencer just released its first ever offering – with marinated fake meat – and most other high-stree
  
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• 24 Thanksgiving Table Runners That Can Add Flair to Your Table

  07-11-2018 19:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. For as little as $18, you can transform your holiday table with a Thanksgiving table runner. You don’t have to go all out with fine china, pumpkins, leaves and a forest wonderland (although that would be pretty cool). All you need is a dining table, countertop or coffee table and one of these table runners. Layer as much or as little as you want to add
  
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• Time is money: `Asprey' may bring up to $4 million at auction

  07-11-2018 14:31
  "The Asprey", a legendary vintage Patek Philippe watch, will go on the auction block next week in Geneva, where it could fetch $2 million to $4 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.
  
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• Kitchen cleanup hacks

  07-11-2018 14:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  My favourite kitchen cleaning strategy: use the dishwasher.Alas, not everything can go in the dishwasher, and these days, mine is so chock-full of regular dishes and toddler accoutrements that fitting ...
  
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• Our fashion choices always reveal something about us – even Julia Roberts’s armpit hair

  07-11-2018 13:59
  The actor, whose unshaven look was so inspiring in the 1990s, is a living embodiment of how the way we present ourselves is always a form of self expressionCan someone ever just wear clothes without making ‘a fashion statement’? Daniel, by emailNo. Everything you wear, Daniel, is a statement about you, I’m afraid, even if that statement is: “I am so scared of anyone thinking I care about how I look that I am wearing the same gross T-shirt, Gap jeans and trainers combo I h
  
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• Mulberry blames high street crisis and House of Fraser woes for loss

  07-11-2018 13:58
  Sales fall 8% while debts from department store collapse and fewer tourists add to lossesThe luxury handbag maker Mulberry has blamed tough high street conditions and the collapse of House of Fraser for widening first half losses.The company, best known for its Bayswater and Alexa bags, slumped to a loss before tax of £8.2m in the six months to 30 September, compared with £600,000 a year ago, as the failure of House of Fraser wiped out more than £2m of profit. Overall sales fel
  
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• Ravinder Bhogal’s recipe for mussel, rice and sweetcorn soup

  07-11-2018 13:03
  A cross between a chowder and a Chinese broth, this will brighten up the darkest winter days in only 15 minutesMy mussel and sweetcorn soup is a cross between a chowder and a Chinese soup. It mixes briny shellfish with sweetcorn like a chowder, but employs sesame oil, ginger and turmeric for an Asian twist. I add rice to give the broth some body. This recipe is especially good because it can be rustled up quickly to brighten the darkest winter days – especially with the convenience of froz
  
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• Under wraps: the rise of the blanket-scarf

  07-11-2018 11:00
  The autumn/winter catwalks had the trend for oversized scarves well covered. How did it become cool to be swaddled?It has been six years since Lenny Kravitz launched a million memes with his gigantic scarf. This autumn, his neckwear looks a little less daft: the blanket-scarf trend has gone big.Cardi B was one of the first to nail it, wearing a purple blanket boldly decorated with a picture of her own face in lieu of a coat to traverse the concourse at LAX airport earlier this year – the p
  
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• Get comfy! How curling up on the sofa became the height of fashion

  07-11-2018 08:00
  Thanks to the bathroom selfie, Netflix-and-chill culture and #iwokeuplikethis humblebrags on Instagram, ‘sleepleisure’ is the off-duty look for 2018What are you doing tonight? With the sun setting before 4.30pm, the onset of winter is enough to make even the most sociable of us want nothing more after work than a simple formula: sofa, sweatpants, a series on the laptop and – depending on whether your mood is more Olivia Pope or the Queen – a glass of wine or a nice cup of
  
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• U.S. midterm elections were... something

  07-11-2018 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Wow! Was that an exciting election, or what?For those of you who have been hiding in a drainpipe for the last couple of months, I am referring here to the ......
  
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• Beyond Beijing: six Chinese cities you need to know

  07-11-2018 07:30
  By 2030 China will overtake France as the world’s largest tourist destination, making culturally rich cities such as Suzhou, Lanzhou and Qingdao major attractionsMost visitors to China are inevitably drawn to the headline-stealing trinity of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, all enormous, vibrant cities that are, justifiably, at the top of the list of must-sees. However, China has more than 100 cities of over 1 million residents, many of which remain little known to foreign travellers but b
  
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• Mid-season fur coats and frocks – fashion archive, 7 November 1938

  07-11-2018 06:30
  7 November 1938 With six clear months of colder weather before us, what to wear under fur coats For the more realistic kinds of clothes the mid-season has considerable advantages over those when winter clothes are shown in torrid temperatures and summer clothes are shown when everybody is wearing furs. By the end of October everybody knows and feels what is wanted. Fur coats have come out and the question of what to wear under them has become actual. There are six clear months of colder weather
  
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• Sudoku 4,211 medium

  07-11-2018 01:00
  Click here to access the print version.Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,133

  07-11-2018 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,660

  07-11-2018 01:00
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• Correction: Food-Column-Deadline-Texas Red Chili story

  07-11-2018 00:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In a story Oct. 22 about a recipe for Texas Red Chili, The Associated Press failed to specify in some references that the chili without beans is Texas Red, and ......
  
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