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Trysts, Love Triangles and Flowing Hair. The Plot Twist: It’s About Horses
17Dec By adminNo Comments
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Trysts, Love Triangles and Flowing Hair. The Plot Twist: It’s About Horses

Dec. 17, 2023 10:17 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)MEDORA, N. D.—Chris Kman used a long-lens camera to scour sprawling grasslands tucked among snow-dusted buttes in Theodore Roosevelt National Park for signs of what she calls her family. She was most excited to spot Flax, who’s been hard to find lately.“He’s the Fabio of this park,” said her husband, Gary, 61, noting the sorrel horse’s noble bearing and flowing mane.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Christmas Movie People Love to Hate
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Christmas Movie People Love to Hate

Most Christmas movies make people feel good. “The Family Stone” makes them mad. And yet the 2005 film has become a fixture of the holiday movie calendar. One reason: People love to hate it. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘The Great British Baking Show’ Fantasy League Keeps Score: Who Will Win? Who Will Cry This Week?
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘The Great British Baking Show’ Fantasy League Keeps Score: Who Will Win? Who Will Cry This Week?

When Nikki and Steve Hammond got to Livingston, Texas, they needed Wi-Fi and a power outlet, urgently. Despite their being on vacation in the U.S. from Wales, thousands of people around the world were relying on the couple to update the scores in their Bake Off Fantasy League. The Hammonds, who were just passing through the small city, settled into the corner booth at Shrimp Boat Manny’s, a Cajun restaurant that was winding down lunch service. Over plates of hush puppies, fried green tomatoes, crawfish étouffée and pecan pie, they found an outlet, plugged in their laptop and headphones and focused on their stream of “The Great British Baking Show” semifinal. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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$11.23 to Live Like Martha Stewart (for a Night)
27Nov By adminNo Comments
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$11.23 to Live Like Martha Stewart (for a Night)

 Martha Stewart’s 150-plus-acre property in Bedford, N.Y., includes a farm with horse stables and a chicken coop, a fruit orchard, a peacock pen and seven stately houses. One of the abodes opened for a night’s stay this month.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters

Listen to article(1 minute)COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put graphite to paper, copying sample sentences like: Do you want to jump into this pile of leaves?Music played lightly in the background of the otherwise pindrop-silent room. Teacher Bertha Robles said she hears chatter during other independent lessons, like math, but focus reigns during cursive. “They’re very into it,” she said. “It’s something new to them.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Hunting In Hot Pink May Be Safer, But Some Men Resist. Maybe ‘if I Was Stalking Flamingos.’
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hunting In Hot Pink May Be Safer, But Some Men Resist. Maybe ‘if I Was Stalking Flamingos.’

Kevin Clements, an upland game hunter who lives outside Seattle, plans to start wearing blaze pink instead of orange when he’s out stalking chukar partridges on the high desert of the Pacific Northwest.“I might get a little razzing for wearing pink,” says Clements, a construction contractor. “My friends will absolutely give me a lot of crap. But they give me a lot of crap anyway.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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