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• Plant a tree: Milan's ambitious plans to be cleaner, greener

  09-12-2018 13:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - If Italy's fashion capital has a predominant colour, it is grey — not only because of the blocks of neoclassical stone buildings for which the city is celebrated, ......
  
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• I've tried logging my exercise and diet – but are health apps really a good idea?

  09-12-2018 13:00
  There’s an app for just about every aspect of wellbeing, from training to water consumption to menstruation. Do they help build good habits, or is there a darker side?There is no way to write this without sounding as if I am bragging: every morning, I wake up and do a 12-minute mini-workout, shower, then learn some Japanese over breakfast.I know, I know. But I am also one of an increasing number of people who have turned to apps to make themselves fitter, healthier and more productive &nda
  
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• Georgia on my plate: a culinary journey in the Caucasus

  09-12-2018 12:00
  No lesson in the complex art of Georgian cuisine is complete without a toast or two, says our writer on a tour of the country’s mountains and cities
  Suzanne Moore in ‘mind-blowingly gorgeous Georgia’“This is a crazy Georgian situation,” says Ketino Sujashvili, with a hint of theatrical relish, as a dozen different crises flare up in her kitchen all at once.I’ve just arrived at Ketino’s guesthouse in Kazbegi, northern Georgia, for an informal cooking clas
  
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• Alek Wek: ‘See this? This is all woman. I know what I’m doing’

  09-12-2018 10:00
  After 20 years at the forefront of fashion, trail-blazing model Alek Wek talks about her first film role, diversity in the industry and why she prefers dating younger menAfter more than two decades on the front line of the fashion industry, and at an age at which most models might previously have been regarded as reaching (or even having passed) a suitably graceful moment to retire, 41-year-old Alek Wek is finally hitting her stride. “The party’s just getting started,” she tell
  
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• Underwear revolution: how lingerie grew up and put women’s comfort first

  09-12-2018 06:59
  Sales of push-up bras are plunging. The new lingerie is all about comfort and body confidenceIn 2019 it will be 25 years since Gossard’s Wonderbra unleashed what has been called the “most iconic” advert of all time: Ellen von Unwerth’s black and white photograph of Eva Herzigova gazing down at her own marvellous cleavage above the legend, “Hello, boys.” Remember it? Of course you do. Later that year, the waif-like Kate Moss endorsed the same push-up, padded br
  
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• I’m 40 and chronically single. Is my unhappy childhood to blame? | Dear Mariella

  09-12-2018 06:59
  You can meet a partner at any stage of life, says Mariella Frostrup. But to hold onto someone, you need to deal with your insecurities firstThe dilemma I am a 40-year-old chronically single woman. I have had a number of short relationships, but only three lasting more than a year and my longest was three years. I was recently dumped after a few months and it has greatly impacted my self-esteem. One issue was his long stretches of non-communication (four-day periods of non-response). Having exper
  
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• An affordable winter sports break in Oslo, of all places

  09-12-2018 01:00
  Despite its pricey reputation, Norway’s capital may be the world’s most accessible snow sports hub, with an Olympic bobsleigh run and cross-country skiing a short schuss from the centreI’m on the metro, Line 1 of Oslo’s T-bane, but instead of shopping bags and briefcases, people are getting on with skis and snowboards. The train heads north, emerges from the tunnel in a forested suburb covered in thick snow then climbs up and up. At Midtstuen station a crowd of excited ch
  
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