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AP poll: Family dinner survives tough competition
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pass the gravy — plus the phone and the remote control. It’s dinnertime in America. Between the blare of the TV, the ring of the phone and Junior texting his buddies under the table or from the couch, the modern dinner comes with a heaping helping of distracting bells and whistles, an…
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Doctors use social networks to educate patients
MIAMI (AP) — In the waiting room, the patient’s family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing. “M is asleep,” one of Wolf’s nurses typed at 9:13 a.m. on June 3. “We will start…
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Doctors use social networks to educate patients
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MIAMI (AP) — In the waiting room, the patient’s family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the…
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Kettlebell training rings true; Weights offer variety and a workout for all parts of the body
What’s round and has a flat bottom? You? If that’s the case, grab a similarly shaped kettlebell and work hard as this old standby helps transform you into a lean, mean exercise machine. Kettlebells resemble cannon balls with handles, and they can be used to do a wide variety of exercises that hit the entire…
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Wal-Mart Looms as the Store That Stole Christmas
With another tough holiday season looming, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is ratcheting up a price war that could be good for shoppers but has competitors fearing the worst. The world’s largest retailer has for years snatched sales from department stores, discounters, supermarket chains, electronics sellers and small mom-and-pop shops. Its intensive discounting helped drive chains such…
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Wal-Mart Looms as the Store That Stole Christmas
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With another tough holiday season looming, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is ratcheting up a price war that could be good for shoppers but has competitors fearing the worst. The world’s largest retailer has for years snatched…
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Thanksgiving _ we do the math, you do the cooking
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right. Here are all the numbers you need to have a safe, worry-free and delicious Turkey…
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Thanksgiving _ we do the math, you do the cooking
Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right. Here are all the numbers you need to have a safe, worry-free and delicious Turkey Day dinner. All serving estimates are generous to allow for plenty of seconds and leftovers. ___ HOW BIG? For turkeys…
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Springs native mines box tops in TV-land to help mom’s school
All the work that goes into producing this year’s television special on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is going to benefit one of the poorest schools in Colorado Springs School District 11. Really. Here’s how: The production team will eat a lot of snacks and use a lot of office products, and Colorado Springs native…
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RECIPES: No need to get fancy to get good turkey meat
Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird has swelled in recent years.This year, leave them all behind.For tasty fowl on Turkey Day, the new thing can be the old thing: a classic one-two punch of an overnight brine followed by a quick morning rub…