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ERWINNA, Pa. — Five and a half years ago, Stephen McDonnell, the founder of Applegate Farms, the company that made cured meats seem like health food, collapsed on a street in Florence, Italy. It was Christmas Eve, and he and his wife, Jill Kearney, their three daughters and other family members were on their way…
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MALIBU, Calif. — When Denise Richards first met with the producers of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” she wore a Guns N’ Roses T-shirt and ripped denim. “They said I was the first one ever to come in not all dolled up,” Ms. Richards, 48, said as she melted into a plush gray chair…
DetailsAccording to new research, both high systolic and high diastolic blood pressure can lead to heart attack and stroke. New research suggests that both blood pressure readings are equally important. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide. In the United States, more than 600,000 people die of heart disease every year.…
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Crystal Renée Sanders and Uwemedimo Okon Umoumoh were married July 27 at the Duke University Chapel in Durham, N.C. The Rev. Dr. Sterling E. Freeman, a Baptist minister, performed the ceremony. The bride, 35, is an associate professor of history and the director of the Africana Research Center at Penn State. She graduated cum laude…
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Rates From 890 Swedish kronor, or about $96. The Basics The Blique by Nobis is the third Stockholm hotel designed by Gert Wingardh, a pre-eminent Swedish architect, for the NobisCQ hotel group. Opened in April, this industrial property spans two buildings, a former warehouse designed in the 1930s by another renowned architect, Sigurd Lewerentz, and…
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Faced with a lethal Ebola outbreak threatening eastern Africa, public health officials are conceding that their battle plan is failing and have proposed a comprehensive new strategy for containing the virus. It envisions reframing the epidemic as a regional humanitarian crisis, not simply a health emergency. That may include more troops or police to quell…
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The path of high-summer cocktail hour matches the ease and pace of its season: Open the refrigerator, take out a bottle, relish the cold condensation in your hand, pour, mix, drink. Nothing embodies that spirit quite like wine cocktails, which take little more effort than remembering where you last set down the corkscrew. Start with…
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