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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Plus-Size Clothing Should Fit Women’s Bodies, So Why Is That So Often Not The Case?

By Gianluca Russo Dec. 15, 2020 The art of finding the perfect fit clearly is costly, from collecting data to the process of hiring fit models. As Chan explains, there is so much that goes int

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  • January 4, 2021

Thinking About Post-Covid Travel?

Global Entry Application and Interview: How Not to Screw It Up By now, you’ve learned all the differences between Global Entry and TSA PreCheck, and are ready to bite the bullet and commit t

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

What are Your Goals for 2021?

We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021.

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

20 Cookbooks for 2020

At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wan

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Who was the real Jesus? Here’s what archaeology tells us.

BY KRISTIN ROMEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON NORFOLK (This is why I subscribe to Nat Geo! This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.)

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  • December 30, 2020

Rockefeller Foundation built on a fossil-fuel fortune becomes largest philanthropist to shun oil investments

By  Rachel Koning Beals Dec. 19, 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy built by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, says it will completely break with the fossil-fuel indust

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

10 Hiding Spots Burglars Always Look First

Marissa Laliberte Under the mattress Bedroom closet Dresser drawers Portable safe Medicine cabinet Read more HERE.

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  • December 30, 2020

A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’

Fenit Nirappil – The Washington Post – Thursday, December 24, 2020 Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital be

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

The secret history of black Santas

By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington DC Published 9 December 2016 In the overheated post-election atmosphere, Santa Claus is seen by some as another cherished cultural institution under attac

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  • December 30, 2020

New Labor Department rule would let employers distribute tips more widely.

Dec. 22, 2020, 6:42 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2020 By Noam Scheiber Under the so-called tip pools authorized by the new rule, the tips of waiters and waitresses can be shared with back-of-the-house wor

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Chicken – The Gospel Bird

Did you know that Americans eat more chicken than any other kind of meat?I bought a small chicken the other day, stuffed it with onion and apple, and baked it. When I took it out of the oven, the b

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Tax Tips for 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, finally, many of us start thinking about taxes. We should have thought about tax-saving strategies at the start of the year, but, you know, we were too busy worrying about

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  • December 30, 2020

How to Stop Robocalls and Spam Calls for Good

Joe McKinley @ Reader’s Digest “The first step in stopping robocalls if you’re in the U.S. is to use the FTC [Federal Trade Commission]’s solution and register your number with th

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

How to Make Prime Rib

This is my favorite cut of meat. Treat it well, and it will melt in your mouth. Yum. I also like Yorkshire pudding, either cooked in the same pan or made into popovers. CREDIT: IAMJEKOB Prime rib i

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  • December 30, 2020

Saving Money on Vegetables

When you go to the grocery, or order your veggies, you expect to get perfect-looking fruits and vegetables. There is an alternative! You can pay less for equally nutritious but not-at-all pretty fo

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