This five-layer dip channels the Mediterranean

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A multilayered dip with eye-catching appeal is always an attention grabber at a gathering, drawing everyone to it. And it carries a conversation-starting spirit ...

Bird lovers flock to adopt parrot who is ‘rated R’

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“If you adopt Hendrix, you’re basically adopting Samuel L. Jackson,” the animal sanctuary wrote on Facebook, referring to the actor who is known, in part, for his ...

Who’s your daddy? These days, who isn’t?

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What distinguishes the dads from the daddies. The term signifies an older man who’s protective, experienced, usually a more dominant type. These are all associations ...

He lost his wedding ring on a 50-acre farm. It was returned 15 years later.

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Wayne Corprew cut down a Christmas tree for his family at a farm in 2010 - and when he got to his truck, he realized his wedding ring was missing. He searched to ...

Trump tariffs sour fortunes of SA’s citrus farmers

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South African citrus has become a staple in the US - the world’s largest citrus importer - especially during the off-season summer months when in the southern hemisphere ...

How the Dogist turned canine photos into a social media phenomenon

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When Elias Weiss Friedman began the Dogist in 2013, he had no idea his street photography of pooches (and their people) would one day make him a leading dog influencer ...

Is ChatGPT really killing Google?

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There are regular headlines suggesting chatbots like ChatGPT may be taking over for Googling. Maybe you’ve also started using artificial intelligence instead of ...

He knows he was adopted from South Korea. The rest is a troubling mystery

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For most of his life, Aaron Grzegorczyk believed that his birth name was Cho Yong-kee. He thought he was born on April 28, 1988, in a clinic in Anyang, South Korea, ...

Single-use plastic is a scourge of takeout. How I to escape it

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What’s in your take-out order? Plastic. Lots of it. Most to-go food comes boxed, bagged or otherwise accompanied by petrochemicals. You ingest this unsavory stew ...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory is a Barack Obama moment

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Obama had to swear over and over that he wasn’t Muslim just to get elected. Minnesota Democratic ...

The aircon broke at an animal shelter. People lined up to foster pets

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Boord left with three cats named Sponge Bob, Sandy Cheeks and Gary. The trio was among the roughly 70 animals who were fostered from the shelter this week as Montgomery ...

She lost her diamond. An airport full of strangers began looking

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April Schmitt was never superstitious about Friday the 13th. She got engaged on Friday, March 13, 1992, and married on another Friday the 13th that November. For ...

For ‘Jaws’ fans, there is no other island

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Fifty years ago, the summer blockbuster about a homicidal shark warned millions of moviegoers, “You’ll never go in the water again. ”

Is the semi-colon semi-dead?

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No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced ...

Shelter dog alerts man he is about to have a seizure

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Shelter dog alerts a man that he is about to have a seizure.

I hate Khamenei’s regime, but I love Iran even more.

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I’ve loathed the dictatorship of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for as long as I can remember. I resent the strictures, the atmosphere of moral probity the man in robes ...

There is no one-and-done on Iran

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Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran’s hard-to-reach nuclear site at Fordow would appear that it have worked out better. But there will be more tough decisions for ...

Glowing axolotls could help humans regrow limbs

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Scientists think axolotls could help humans regrow limbs.

Is ‘Trump always chickens out’ worth repeating?

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To see his political allies on Wall Street call him weak and goad him into a Truth Social tantrum scratches a particular itch. But this attack enrages Trump only ...

The battle on antisemitism: Fighting prejudice with prejudice

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In the aftermath of a Molotov cocktail in Boulder and the tragedy in Washington just 11 days earlier, when two employees of the Israeli Embassy, ...

We finally may be able to rid the world of mosquitoes. But should we?

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The question is no longer hypothetical. In recent years, scientists have devised powerful genetic tools that may be able to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests ...

Nervous about using the bathroom at work? A gastroenterologist shares advice

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If you have coffee with breakfast in the morning, and exercise before work or perhaps sprint around to catch the train, you’re physiologically priming yourself to ...

How a French bulldog who surfs ended up a movie star

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One sunny morning in 2023, Dale went to a beach in Oahu, Hawaii, to surf three-foot waves in the Pacific Ocean. To Dale, a French bulldog, it was just another day ...

Secret agents enter the battle against wildlife smugglers

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Davis and his colleagues work to disrupt smuggling networks that every year move $23 billion worth of wildlife products around the world. Since he left the FBI nine ...

Rescued bear cub raised by humans dressed as bears

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When staff interact with the cub, they are usually garbed head-to-toe in a bear costume. They wear a bear mask and an oversize fur coat, as well as leather gloves. ...