Good morning. I loved this column Genevieve Ko wrote for the newspaper that we sent to the plant yesterday, printed overnight, stuffed into blue bags and hurled in the direction of our home-delivery subscribers’ front doors this morning. It’s about how she’s keeping the culinary traditions of her immigrant parents alive, adapting Western kitchen equipment…
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Market Overview Brittany, a peninsular region in western France with dramatic coastlines and ancient megaliths, has remained popular with foreign home buyers and is now seeing an influx of French buyers from larger cities, said Gilles Durin, the regional commercial director in Brittany for Patrice Besse. “The interest in Brittany has not changed for foreign…
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Need to have a conversation in a language you don’t know, make sense of a printed sign or quickly translate a message? With Google and Apple revving their machine-learning engines in their Google Translate and Apple’s Translate apps, there’s a whole new world of communication possibilities right in your pocket. Keep in mind that computer…
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Have you recently become a vegan? Making such a decision doesn’t necessarily mean you should give up your favourite sweets. Nowadays, the majority of UK confectionery brands have become aware of the importance of introducing vegan-friendly treats. These candies and gummies are free from gelatin, palm oil, artificial colours, and synthetic flavours. Instead, they feature organic…
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Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientific breakthrough that one day may yield a vast new supply of organs for severely ill patients. Although many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences…
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For David L. Culp, the walk is a daily practice, not for its exercise value, but in pursuit of insight. The familiar route he has taken most days, over some 30 growing seasons, is around his two-acre garden in Downingtown, Pa., along the paths he created. He walks the sloping site in search of ideas…
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“Men love shortcuts, they like noninvasive, minimal downtime devices that they don’t consider cosmetic but more like upkeep,” said Dr. Frank, who has also seen an increase in male clientele. “Ten years ago these machines didn’t exist, now they do.” Dr. Arash Moradzadeh, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Beverly Hills, Calif., suggests truSculpt…
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When Jim Lewis was told earlier this month that his 90-year-old mother, who lives in a nursing home outside of Boise, Idaho, tested positive for Covid-19, he wondered if she had gotten the virus from an unvaccinated employee. And he had reason to worry. A little more than half of the workers in the home,…
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I don’t have a first oyster memory. It has been crowded out by so many others, vivid and indelible, that followed. There was a fried-oyster po’ boy that I once asked a cabdriver to make a detour for on the way to the airport. I had him stop and wait for me outside Domilise’s in…
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WASHINGTON — The campaign to vaccinate young children in the United States against the coronavirus will not look like it did for adults. There will be no mass inoculation sites. Pediatricians will be enlisted to help work with parents. Even the vials — and the needles to administer doses — will be smaller. Biden administration…
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