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What I learned staying out of the grocery store

A month ago, in an attempt to eat healthier and shop locally, I embarked on the 30 Day No Grocery Store Challenge. Now, 30 days have come and gone and I lived to tell the tale. Continue reading

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London businesses bemoan Olympic slump

The Olympics have turned London into a tale of two cities, with shops, hotels, theatres and restaurants in the centre suffering a tourist drought while crowds throng to the games a few miles to the east. Continue reading

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Little Calogero in "A Bronx Tale": ‘Memba Him?!

Francis Capra is best know for playing the curious Calogero in the 1993 mafia movie “A Bronx Tale.” Guess what he looks like now! Continue reading

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Sugar Ray Leonard — I Coulda BEAT Manny Pacquiao

Sugar Ray Leonard says … in his prime, he could’ve taken Manny Pacquiao Continue reading

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Motor racing-Formula One lives in a Bahrain bubble

MANAMA, April 21 (Reuters) – While demonstrators hurledpetrol bombs at the police a half hour’s drive away, the onlysmoke that reached the Bahrain Grand Prix paddock on the eve ofSunday’s race was laid on by the organisers at the “relaxedBahraini-style barbecue”. Formula One’s Bahrain experience has been a tale of twoparallel universes, with the drivers and team bosses staying inluxury hotels and safely sheltered inside their paddock bubbleof familiar routine, while running battles are fought on thestreets and in villages Continue reading

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Why the path to social success means going mobile first

It isn’t every day an Android and iOS app gets scooped up by Facebook for $1 billion. Continue reading

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Romney wouldn’t put dog on top of car again

The tale of Seamus, the Romney’s Irish setter, who got sick while riding on top of the family car, has been used against the GOP nominee. Continue reading

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Radio’s ‘This American Life’ retracts Apple story

The public radio program “This American Life” on Friday retracted a story about the harrowing tale of what an artist said he found while investigating Apple operations in China, citing “numerous fabrications.” Continue reading

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Artist admits to shortcuts in show about Apple

An artist admitted Friday to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.’s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man theatrical show was challenged by a public radio program that had based a broadcast on his work. Continue reading

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Artist admits to shortcuts in show about Apple

An artist admitted Friday to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.’s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man theatrical show was challenged by a public radio program that had based a broadcast on his work. Continue reading

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