That's a photo of Kilimanjaro. The latest word on Africa's highest peak is that all of its snow will be gone by 2030. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calculates, for the first time, the volume of ice lost from Kilimanjaro's snow fields. Between ...

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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm not eating meat this month (or at least, trying not to eat it). I've hit a few snags - most notably, Scottish sausage, which I was not familiar with until my friend Lisa had a bunch of girls over for a Scottish brunch ...

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Sure, a natural pink-hued manicure may be easy to maintain but is it as fun as going dark? I think not. Grey polishes are overtaking pinks on the fashion-savvy and I for one am jumping right on that bandwagon. Let me share with you a few of my recent favs.   Yves Saint Laurent's ...

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With the Giller and the GG wrapped, and the Writers’ Trust doled out next Tuesday, you’d be forgiven for thinking the literary award season had drawn to a close. But, readers, it isn’t so, and yesterday brought us the shortlist for a very prestigious, very competitive prize: The Literary Review’s ...

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All right, full disclosure: I once, very briefly, tried to play by the Rules. (I’m speaking, of course, about that bestselling book by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, which insists that if you act totally uninterested and unavailable, men will be tripping over themselves to hand you a giant diamond ...

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