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Chloe’s French Catering shutters Windsor business after 15 years
Jul 02, 2022 | Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Chloe’s French Catering — known for their extraordinary pastries, jambon sandwiches and antique Citroen delivery truck — is bidding adieu to Sonoma County.
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How The Princess Bride Built Film’s Most Beloved Sword Fight
Jul 01, 2022 | Vanity Fair
Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes, and Mandy Patinkin on what it really took to create the greatest sword fight of modern times—30 years later.
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Scientists tested the natural gas used in kitchen stoves around Boston. They found dangerous chemicals. - The Boston Globe
Jun 29, 2022 | BostonGlobe.com
A study sheds new light on the full spectrum of chemicals that can leak into homes, finding 21 different chemicals designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as hazardous air pollutants.
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He built a grass-fed beef empire. Now he wants to be your bank - The Boston Globe
Jun 29, 2022 | BostonGlobe.com
Charley Cummings wants to build the "Patagonia of banking." Walden Mutual would be a mutual bank and use its depositors’ funds to offer loans to local agricultural entrepreneurs in New England and New York.
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Star Wars needs new characters, not endlessly recycled ones
Jun 27, 2022 | Polygon
Move over, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker, and make room for the next generation
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America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
Jun 25, 2022 | The Atlantic
The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.
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Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in a year, study estimates
Jun 24, 2022 | STAT
New research finds one in five of the deaths due to Covid-19 in low-income countries between December 2020 and 2021 could have been prevented if the WHO’s global vaccine targets were met.
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Alito’s Attack on Miranda Warnings Is Worse Than It Seems
Jun 24, 2022 | Slate Magazine
The justice lays the groundwork for a direct blow to the right against self-incrimination.
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Roe v. Wade has been overturned. In these states, abortion access will no longer be accessible.
Jun 24, 2022 | The 19th
Thirteen states have trigger laws that would immediately, or almost immediately, ban abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has the MCU’s best villain so far
Jun 23, 2022 | Polygon
Marvel’s movies usually lack memorable monsters, but this one is different — and scarier than Thanos
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Perspective | Parenting: We celebrate growth, and mourn little losses along the way
Jun 23, 2022 | Washington Post
Parenting, which is made up of moment after moment of guiding and raising our children is also, essentially, made up of moment after moment of letting go.
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Opinion | Pediatric covid vaccines could change how we deal with the pandemic
Jun 21, 2022 | Washington Post
The vaccination campaign for children means shifting the response to covid-19 from a wartime effort to a routine part of primary care.
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Evaluating the Jan. 6 Committee’s Evidence
Jun 17, 2022 | Lawfare
The committee promised to prove seven key points about the former president’s conduct. How is it doing?
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Legalize housing, not tent encampments
Jun 17, 2022 | www.slowboring.com
The war on rooming houses and SROs was a mistake
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The Jan. 6 committee's plan to prove Trump’s culpability
Jun 10, 2022 | Axios
To show Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election and prevent the transition of power to Joe Biden.
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SQLite's web renaissance
Jun 10, 2022 | Changelog
I won’t call SQLite’s current moment a comeback, because the most used database engine in the world doesn’t have anything to come back from. I’m going with “renaissance”, because despite its already mass adoption, there has been something of a rebirth...
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