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Here are links to help keep you and your family busy, including things to do and places to hold birthday celebrations. It is not a comprehensive list, but there are lots of options. Best of the Springs The Gazette's 2013 Best of the Springs edition points out the year's best offerings...
Medicinal marijuana stops seizures, brings hope to a little Black Forest girl
Six-year-old Charlotte Figi, a picture of precious in her "Gatsby"-style bob and blue toenails, stands patiently as her mother reaches up her dress to change her out of her soiled Pull-Ups. - Charlotte never says a word. She hasn't in the past hour, and won't for at least another 30 minutes,...
The new dads: Diaper duty's just the start
NEW YORK (AP) - Laura Radocaj of Vero Beach, Fla., was warned when she was pregnant with twins that motherhood would be harder than she imagined - especially because she planned to go back to work while the twins were still babies. "But this has been the easiest transition," said Radocaj, 28,...
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Quieter, please: New products reduce noise
For baby boomers, noise matters. "Decreased tolerance for loud sounds is a fairly common symptom of age-related hearing loss, as the range of comfortable listening levels seems to shrink," says Ted Madison, an audiologist in St. Paul, Minn., and a representative of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Beyond creating stress and...
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Dog days of summer: So what in the world is my dog thinking?
It's the age-old and seemingly answerless question: What in the world is my dog thinking? And a question that has spawned a growing market not only of scientific research but of everything from decks of pet tarot cards to television and radio shows and books by pet psychics and animal trainers. Whether any one of them can ever provide real...
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The new dads: Diaper duty's just the start
Laura Radocaj of Vero Beach, Fla., was warned when she was pregnant with twins that motherhood would be harder than she imagined - especially because she planned to go back to work while the twins were still babies. "But this has been the easiest transition," said Radocaj, 28, who works from home in corporate communications. So what's her...
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Drive thru review: Burger King unveils McRib competitor
Burger King's Rib Sandwich is a shot across McDonald's bow. If BK can cut even a few percentage points into McDonald's cult classic, the McRib, Burger King will have a monster cash-register winner. It's called confusion in the marketplace. You want a fast-food rib sandwich ... hmmm, which place has that again? It's called a Mc ... a Mc ......
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Manitou Springs author pens pirate novel
Imagine an exotic setting and the ideal you - the hair, figure and pedigree with which you wish you'd been born. Now, weave a story. Say, a tale of lost pirate treasure and swashbuckling on the high seas ... Thus Wendy Wilkinson began sketching the skull-and-crossbones outline of "Pirate's Plunder," a new adventure novel and the first work of...
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Dear Donna: Cat on counter? Don't worry too much
Dear Donna: I was very excited about a lady I have gone out with a half-dozen times until I went to her home for the first time. She has a cat and she lets him walk on the counters in the kitchen and basically anywhere else he wants to go. We already had agreed that she is going to cook dinner for me for my birthday in two weeks, and now all I...
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Waffle cone makes Wendy's Frosty easier to eat on go
This week I tried a new Chocolate Frosty Waffle Cone at Wendy's. Don't worry, Wendy's hasn't tinkered with the Frosty formula; it's just made the Frosty easier to eat with one hand ... by swirling the soft frozen dessert into a crispy, sweet waffle cone. Rewarding yourself with a Frosty after a burger-and-fries lunch is an American classic....
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Sesame Workshop project urges kids to visit parks
NEW YORK (AP) - "Sesame Street" wants kids to take a break from parking it indoors, and head out to a park instead. A new project has recruited Muppet monsters Elmo and Murray to visit national parks in six short videos that encourage children ages 3-5 to experience the great outdoors, wherever it might be, and to apply scientific skills of...
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Changing families: 2 in 5 women would consider parenting solo
As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it alone. Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 2 1/2 years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child. "Was it worthwhile? Well, I'm thinking of doing it again, aren't I?" she says. Everson and...
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Drive-thru review: Arby's adds another quality sandwich
The King's Hawaiian Roast Beef & Swiss sandwich takes what Arby's does best - slow-cooked roast beef piled high - and then makes it better. By piling the roast beef even higher. The sandwich stacks one-third more meat than Arby's regular roast beef sandwich. And then Arby's makes it twice as good by putting all that roast beef on a King's...
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Tips for safekeeping your valuables in event of fire
he stifling heat generated by the Waldo Canyon fire melted many things locked away in gun and fire safes that claimed to be fire proof. And, in many cases, the safes were not destroyed by the fire - only the things inside them. As summer draws near, so do the dangers of wildfires and flooding and the fears of, once again, losing everything....
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