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RIO DE JANEIRO - With its starched white tablecloths and stately crystal chandeliers, Rio de Janeiro's upscale O Navegador restaurant doesn't look like the birthplace of a revolution.

Dear Eric: Just wondering if you could provide a recipe and some background information for Scottish black bun. I’d like to try making it in place of Christmas fruitcake this year.

The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what to tell their children. President Barack Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, would tell their daughters that they love them and hug them a little tighter.

Last week, a mother asked how to help her teenage son deal with peer pressure to drink: “My son is 16 and he’s just reached the age where he’s going to parties where kids are consuming alcohol,” she wrote.

Cindy MacDougall: Baby Makes Six. My mother makes good old St. Nick look like a rum-and-nog-drinking procrastinator. She starts buying her Christmas gifts for the next year on Boxing Day.

Mary Beth Breckenridge Akron Beacon Journal Dear Mary Beth: I have two windows that had a black substance on them. I treated them with a water/ bleach mixture, then sanded, re-stained and re-varnished.

Dear Doctors Donohue and Roach: My great-grandson has been diagnosed with a tic. It seems his eyes open wide and roll around — what is that? He is six years old. A.A. It sounds like Tourette’s syndrome, or a closely related neurologic condition.

JERUSALEM - Israeli security guards at the Western Wall on Friday searched women worshippers arriving at the holiest place where Jews can pray for a seemingly inoffensive object — the Jewish prayer shawl, which under the Orthodox tradition can be wor

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The judges have made their lists and checked them twice. With dozens of entries from homes and businesses to choose from, the panel of seven judges worked hard this week to narrow the field to the best Christmas light displays in Greater Victoria.