All Stories from February 16, 2014 (Change date)
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Should busy, stressed-out kids have to do chores?Feb 17, 2014 5:06 am - It's the dirty work of home life: dusting the shelves, mopping the floors and doing the laundry, load after load. Yet asking kids to help has gotten harder for some pare...
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Danes hoping for fourth Oscar with 'The Hunt'Feb 16, 2014 6:42 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark - When Danish director Thomas Vinterberg wrote the script for "The Hunt" - one of this year's contenders for Best Foreign Language Film - he pictured...
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60 years an actor, June Squibb takes a bowFeb 17, 2014 5:04 am - NEW YORK - June Squibb recently ducked into a Times Square office above the theaters she spent decades knocking about, taking any decent part she could get. "We ran aro...
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A new 'Tonight' dawns with Jimmy Fallon as hostFeb 17, 2014 5:04 am - NEW YORK - On the walls of Jimmy Fallon's office are photos. Lots of photos. Of his 2007 marriage to film producer Nancy Juvonen. Of their 6-month-old daughter, Winnie. ...
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Tiny doses may help peanut-allergic kidsFeb 17, 2014 5:06 am - For some children, even trace amounts of peanuts can be deadly. But these kids have no options other than to avoid the legumes completely. The results of a new clinical ...
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A stone's throw from Sochi? Older athletes aim for OlympicsFeb 17, 2014 5:06 am - While we're all just sitting around watching the Olympics, Anne Abernathy is training for them. Again. The 60-year-old known as “Grandma Luge” appeared in a record six W...
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Facts distorted on Obama and deficitFeb 16, 2014 4:05 am - Donna Brazile had a column in the Feb. 11 Daily Herald that led me to believe that her opinion of her readership is that they are either uninformed, naive or easily bamb...
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Praise these OlympiansFeb 16, 2014 4:05 am - LILONGWE, Malawi - Yamikani walks deliberately, intently, with a bean bag on his head, showing a balance that is probably hard-earned. "When he falls," his grandmother I...
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Bravo to those fighting sugar subsidiesFeb 16, 2014 4:05 am - Congratulations to Sen. Mark Kirk and Rep. Danny Davis for at least raising awareness of the unconscionable, job-killing, pernicious sugar price-support program. Though ...
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The real question to ask about guns, potFeb 16, 2014 4:05 am - "Do guns, pot mix?" asks the headline for your Feb. 6 article on proposed rules for medical marijuana. Let me offer you an alternative headline: "Should a lifelong, law-...