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Cookbook is way to women’s hearts

BOSTON – Single and looking? If you’re a guy who’s willing to do some cooking, Avi Shemtov has you covered. Admittedly, Shemtov’s initial attempt to feed dudes on the prowl read a...

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

New Mexico couple create alternative to ketchup

SANTA FE – Though they tied the knot just last September, Carmit Levin and Jacob Seidenberg Korn playfully bickered recently about the details of how they had created their new product – ket...

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Hard can be difficult

Finally, a US-made hard cider that’s actually worth drinking

DATE: Aug 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Thailand bans commercial surrogacy for foreigners, singles

BANGKOK – Thailand, once a top choice for would-be parents around the world who were seeking a surrogate, has narrowed the choices for people looking to hire a woman to carry a fetus in her ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Viral video sparks concern in Saudi over harassment of women

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – In a minute-long video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the waterfront promenade in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jiddah as a gr...

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Kids are learning curse words earlier than they used to

How do young children learn to swear – and why do they seem to do it at the most inappropriate moments? Recently, a group of parents have become convinced that the Minion toys in ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

OK to hug pope? Lawmakers want to know

WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers are used to a slew of rules about how to conduct themselves, and now they’re anxiously awaiting edicts of another type: how to behave around the pope. ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Religion Briefs

Discuss the spiritual nature of nonhuman animals Karlene Stange will discuss “Animas: the Spiritual Nature of Animals” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

Quran dates to time of prophet

Student finds parchment at a British university

DATE: Aug 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Religion

My interracial family needs its own action figures

Growing up, I can recall owning only two black action figures in a massive collection that spanned movies, television and comic book characters. There was Lando Calrissian – the smooth talki...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

About birds and bees and PG-13s

Q: Can you suggest a response to a 6-year-old who has read the rating information for a PG-13 (I think) movie and asks, “What are ‘sexual situations’?” A: This is life handing you...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Eight things your college kid needs to know before school starts

In the summer before our kids go to college it is easy to feel that we still have much to teach them as the time slips away. Life lessons and laundry usually top the list of things parents w...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family