Some might vote for Christmas, but for me, the holiday most closely associated with the idea of family is Thanksgiving. It has a distinctly ecumenical flavor -- or maybe that's just the odd tang I always detect in my mother's...
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By James R. Carroll • jcarroll@courier-journal.com • November 25, 2009 Thank Abraham Lincoln for Thanksgiving. But Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation first established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in November. The Lincolns also...
NEW YORK, NY.- The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-established yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season from November 24, 2009, through...
magazines, almost every page is full of information about nutritional supplements making big claims that are hard to ignore. They show you very convincing "evidence" for the claims they make for the range of powders and...
many doctors, nurses, nutritionists and dieticians who condemn the eating of fatty foods. However is fat the villain it has been made out to be? A couple of weeks ago I read a research paper in a health and nutrition journal,...