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Turning trash into treasure
Click the image to view galleryBy AMANDA KWAN Associated Press PHOENIX -- If you can look at a dented, chipped, dusty piece of furniture that's been in someone's garage for years and see potential and...
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Celebrate Year of the Dragon
Click the image to view galleryAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- The Year of the Dragon is approaching, ruled by the fabulous beast that is the most powerful sign in the Chinese zodiac. And the San...
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Grand Canyon cabin undergoes renovation GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) -- One of the oldest buildings at the Grand Canyon's South Rim has been renovated for use as a rental cabin. The...
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Visit desert after dark
Click the image to view galleryBy CHARMAINE NORONHA Associated Press PHOENIX -- "Everything in the Sonoran Desert either sticks, stings, bites or eats meat. There are quite a few things you don't want...
View ArticleNepal promotes Buddha
Associated Press LUMBINI, Nepal -- Nepal's president has announced a campaign to lure hundreds of thousands of tourists and pilgrims this year to visit the area in southwest Nepal where Buddha was...
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Ski or snowboard?
Click the image to view galleryBy KAREN SCHWARTZ Associated Press The relationship between skiers and snowboarders might still be a bit icy at times, but a versatile group has discovered there's more...
View ArticleVoltaggion squared
By MICHELE KAYAL Associated Press FREDERICK, Md. -- Bryan Voltaggio stands in his restaurant, Volt, arms folded. He doesn't break a smile, a frown or a sweat. It's the same modest, soft-spoken persona...
View ArticleSimple and sensational
By J.M. HIRSCH Associated Press When you select the right ingredients, it doesn't take many of them to create a fantastic dinner. Nor much time. The trick is to pick ingredients with tons of flavor,...
View ArticleChefs rooting for ginger
By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Fresh, dried, candied or pickled, the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale -- ginger root to you and me -- is a hot commodity at the moment. Used quietly for...
View ArticleLet's Talk Food for Jan. 17
By Audrey Wilson Next Monday, Jan. 23, is Chinese New Year's Day. This is the year of the Dragon, the only mythical animal in the Chinese zodiac, and is the symbol of good fortune and intense power. If...
View ArticleHuman Matters -- 'Strange' idea may be source of trouble
By STEVE KALAS Sooner or later, married people will acquire and manifest The Strange Idea. The word "strange" here can mean anything from ideas not useful to ideas absurd, untrue, unfair or dishonest....
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Paula Deen has diabetes
Click the image to view galleryBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK -- Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has...
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Welcome to tax season
Click the image to view galleryBy CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press There are tax breaks for college students, job hunters and victims of natural disasters. If much of it seems familiar, that's because...
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There's an app to help you file
Click the image to view galleryBy CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press For the taxpayer on the go trying to file a return quickly and easily, there's an app for it. "We're trying to anticipate and follow...
View ArticleGarden Guy -- Controlling fungus gnats
By NICK SAKOVICHI would like to know how I can control the fungus gnats in my vegetable greenhouse. Many hours were spent on the Internet looking for possible answers, but I am finding that what you...
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