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Myrecipes.com tried 13 brands of chocolate ice cream. Which one do you think they judged the best? IT WASN’T BLUE BELL!! The champions If there’s one thing we learned from this test, it’s that ice cream is a highly personal experience, and we all have our own priorities in terms of evaluating measures of quality.  The…

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Peace-Of-Mind  During America’s Gilded Age, Clarence King was a famous geologist, friend of wealthy, famous, and powerful men. He was a larger-than-life character whose intellect and wanderlust pushed him to survey far-flung regions of the western U.S. and South America and develop an abiding appreciation of non-Western culture and people. What his family and wealthy…

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How the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic’s Fake Stash House Cases Changed a Controversial Charging Practice, Lowered a Discovery Standard, and Saved Clients Hundreds of Years in Prison Becky Beaupre Gillespie, Director of Content June 30, 2021 “We were alleging discrimination based on race,” Zunkel would later recall, “and I remember looking over at the jury…

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BY ARIANNE COHEN 07-07-21 The good doctors of Canada would like you to be prepared for death. Enter the RESPECT calculator, which predicts deaths within five years based on declines in daily activities such as bathing and walking—which are typically stronger predictors of mortality than diagnoses of disease. The calculator is based on data from 491,000 older people’s…

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