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Holiday season's a great time to feel the creative vibe with felt

Holiday season's a great time to feel the creative vibe with felt

It's that time of year when texture, character and warmth define the most successful decor. The perfect time for felt. This season has seen a variety of creative, decorative felt items for table and tree.
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Missing snowboarder located

Missing snowboarder located

WEST VANCOUVER — Search-and-rescue responders in West Vancouver have found a 33-year-old snowboarder who has been missing for more than two days.
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Halle’s Hollywood Hills house is on the market

Halle’s Hollywood Hills house is on the market

Lauren Beale Los Angeles Times Actress Halle Berry is trying to sell her Hollywood Hills West house.
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Scalpel-free brain surgery gives patients with tremor disorder steady hands

Scalpel-free brain surgery gives patients with tremor disorder steady hands

TORONTO - Tony Lightfoot extends his right hand in front of him. Steady as a rock. He picks up a pen and signs his name on a clipboard, then draws a spiral. "I can't believe it," he says, looking down at the page.
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Almost any healthy human dinner will make a healthy dog dinner, especially during holidays

Almost any healthy human dinner will make a healthy dog dinner, especially during holidays

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The most prized holiday guests are those that eat with gusto, express their appreciation and lick their plates clean.
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When shoppers hit 'like' on Facebook, retailers stock stores with what they want

When shoppers hit 'like' on Facebook, retailers stock stores with what they want

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Facebook isn't just for goofy pictures and silly chatter. Whether shoppers know it or not, their actions online help dictate what's in stores during this holiday season.
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Seed catalogues and stores promote grafted veggies for higher yields, better taste and more

Seed catalogues and stores promote grafted veggies for higher yields, better taste and more

In many of the seed catalogues arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock.
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Russian foreign minister criticizes proposal to ban adoptions

MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday strongly criticized a proposal in the country's parliament that would ban Americans from adopting Russian children.
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In a slaughter's aftermath, grateful parents offer small indulgences to their kids

In a slaughter's aftermath, grateful parents offer small indulgences to their kids

NEW YORK, N.Y. - There's snow on the ground in Londonderry, N.H., nearly 200 miles to the north of the still-raw slaughter at a Connecticut elementary school, and dad Eric Heenan found himself in a routine fuss with his 9-year-old son over boots.
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Varied diet provides the vitamins you need

Dear doctors: I took a multivitamin faithfully for 20 years. I also have asthma. I wheezed every day. I ran out of the vitamin and forgot to buy more. Ten days without a vitamin and the wheezing stopped. S.W.
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