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Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills
December 17, 2023 - 5:14 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s the fortnight before Christmas and all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base even in rapidly secularizing countries.
Retailers are ready to kick off Black Friday just as shoppers pull back on spending
November 23, 2023 - 4:12 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements. But executives are growing concerned with a spending slowdown that could temper sales on the day after Thanksgiving as well as throughout the holidays.
No more Thanksgiving 'food orgy'? New obesity medications change how users think of holiday meals
November 20, 2023 - 1:30 PM

For most of her life, Claudia Stearns dreaded Thanksgiving. As a person who struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the annual turmoil of obsessing about what she ate — and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food.
Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope
October 04, 2023 - 12:04 PM

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country.
Kimberly Palmer: How to make summer camp more affordable
May 08, 2023 - 7:50 AM

To create a fun but affordable summer for her daughters, ages 11 and 13, Flossie McCowald plans out camps well in advance. The Pennsylvania resident snags early bird discounts, takes advantage of a church-based sleepaway camp that offers scholarships and leverages sibling discounts.
In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies
March 15, 2023 - 4:13 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — New pants to replace Alex Morisey’s tattered khakis will have to wait. There’s no cash left for sugar-free cookies either. Even at the month’s start, the budget is so bare that Fixodent is a luxury. Now, halfway through it, things are so tight that even a Diet Pepsi is a stretch.
In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas
January 09, 2023 - 4:33 AM

BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in Norwegian, in a shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night.
This Old House: Restoration honors Black Atlanta postmaster
September 07, 2022 - 4:39 AM

ATLANTA (AP) — Most contractors told them they would tear it down. A two-story five-bedroom Victorian built around 1900, it was abandoned and collapsing, with vines reaching its rafters. Elegant features were scavenged long ago. The house’s place in American history was at risk of disappearing.
Splendid Byzantine churches head Thessaloniki’s holy sites
August 03, 2022 - 5:59 AM

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping it would shelter festivalgoers from the heat that already shrouded the view of Mount Olympus across the gulf.
Up in the Bavarian Alps, rugged trails with German cheer
July 20, 2022 - 5:53 AM

SCHÖNAU AM KÖNIGSSEE, Germany (AP) — At 23 minutes before midnight, at 1,703 meters (5,600 feet) above sea level, the lashing rain and furious winds outside the darkened bunkroom prompted two questions to turn over in my head: Will the roof of this hut be ripped off in the dead of night? Will I be able to continue my ridge trek to my next destination on the German-Austrian border the next day?
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Lifestyle News

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Retailers are ready to kick off Black Friday just as shoppers pull back on spending

No more Thanksgiving 'food orgy'? New obesity medications change how users think of holiday meals

Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope

Kimberly Palmer: How to make summer camp more affordable

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

This Old House: Restoration honors Black Atlanta postmaster

Splendid Byzantine churches head Thessaloniki’s holy sites

Up in the Bavarian Alps, rugged trails with German cheer

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