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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Specialists say there are benefits to couples sleeping separately
Michael Solender and his wife have been together for 42 years. They slept in the same bed for the first 10, taking to separate rooms after that.
Their sleep separation wa...
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LONDON (AP) — Tequila-based margaritas and palomas have long been cocktail-menu staples, but their base ingredient — agave — is working its way into other cocktails for a...
Joanetes, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a...
Cynthia Holzapfel, 76, knows what it’s like to share a home with someone else — or even 30 others.
As one of the early residents of the Farm, a 1970s-era commune in Summe...
For kids, summer can revolve around playgrounds, pools, bikes and just being outside. For parents, it can mean a litany of ouchies to take care of — including scrapes, su...
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For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I’d have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can’t say for sure wheth...
When a heat wave settles in and makes life uncomfortable, it can also complicate air travel.
The effect of high temperatures can force planes to reduce the weight they ar...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Lisa Walling’s first house call of the day was with a particularly fluffy hospice patient — a 13-year-old Newfoundland named Rugby.
Rugby happily lick...
For families who want to keep their tween children from spending too much time in front of screens, a new study offers illuminating - and potentially challenging - advice...
United Airlines pilot Carole Hopson spent years honing her craft while taking countless trips aroundthe globe. Eventually, she realized she’d mastered it. Not flying the ...
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Summer can be a stressful time for parents and guardians: The kids are out of school, adult children are popping over for an extended visit, and trying to plan the “perfe...
Between the sweat smell, fluorescent lights and omnipresent television screens, April Herring has never connected with going to the gym.
Instead, she runs, bikes, hikes, ...
You may have heard of white noise used to mask background sounds. Now, it has colorful competition.
There’s a growing buzz around pink noise, brown noise, green noise — a...
Providing the soundtrack for the Grace by Nia experience: live music that, on a given night, might showcase local jazz, rhythm and blues, soul or hip-hop artists.
Because I’m an active gardener, my countertop compost bin gets a lot of use. All my veggie and fruit peels and scraps get binned until they get dumped into the big compos...
Digital diversions may have us tethered to tech, but screen fatigue is real. Even my digitally-native, young-millennial kids prefer printed books these days. And a recent...
The first time Marcelle Hutchins sat down to meditate, she put on a guided session, relaxed her shoulders and tried to close her eyes. She lasted two minutes.
“I had a de...
I’m staring at two new bottles that represent a tension at the heart of tequila.
One is from Casamigos, the brand founded by actor George Clooney, ex-model Rande Gerber a...
The American Heart Association calls them "game changers."
Oprah Winfrey says they're "a gift."
Science magazine anointed them the "2023 Breakthrough of the Year."
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I recently started my seeds — tomatoes, cucuzza squash, climbing zucchini, golden beets, Florida cranberries, nasturtiums, zinnias, edelweiss, various herbs and Roma bean...
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