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Kitchen Window
3:20 am
Wed November 14, 2012

Giving Thanks For Can-Free Cooking

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Get recipes for Buttermilk Biscuits, Cornbread and Andouille Dressing, Stevie Lee Webb's Cranberry and Port Relish, Green Bean Casserole and Pumpkin Pie.
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Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 8:21 am

I love Thanksgiving. It is the best food holiday on the calendar. However, one thing has always bothered me. Even the most accomplished cooks take unnecessary short cuts when it comes to preparing the Big Meal.

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Humans
2:19 am
Wed November 14, 2012

Reading 'Maxim' Can Make You A Target For Thieves

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Originally published on Wed November 14, 2012 7:06 am

Some time ago, a man wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a hoodie drove a dirty Ford Explorer into a carwash in Fort Worth, Texas. As soon as the car came back clean, he got it filthy again, and drove to the next carwash. He did this with every single full-service carwash in town.

The man wasn't suffering from a strange mental disorder; Patrick Kinkade was a criminologist conducting an experiment.

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Environment
2:18 am
Wed November 14, 2012

A 'Green' Gold Rush? Calif. Firm Turns Trash To Gas

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Energy Of The Future? California company Sierra Energy is testing out a reactor that turns garbage — like these wood chips, metal fragments and plastics — into synthetic gas that can then be turned into a low-carbon diesel fuel.
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Sierra Energy is testing a reactor that makes fuel in a warehouse at an old Air Force base near Sacramento, Calif.
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Originally published on Wed November 14, 2012 7:17 pm

Second of a two-part series. Read Part 1

California starts the ball rolling Wednesday on a controversial scheme to keep the planet from overheating. Businesses will have to get a permit if they emit greenhouse gases.

Some permits will be auctioned today; the rest are free. The big idea here is the state is putting a ceiling on emissions.

It's a gamble. And for this top-down climate plan to work, it has to usher in a greener, more efficient economy.

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The Record
2:17 am
Wed November 14, 2012

A&M Records: Independent, With Major Appeal

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Herb Alpert (left) and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M Records in Alpert's garage in 1962.
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Herb Alpert with Karen and Richard Carpenter, whom the label signed in 1969.
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The Police's 1978 single "Roxanne" helped the band secure its deal with A&M Records.
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Originally published on Thu November 15, 2012 4:12 pm

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Sweetness And Light
9:03 pm
Tue November 13, 2012

Dear Sports Czars: Take Your Ball And Go Home

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Originally published on Wed November 14, 2012 7:06 am

Czars.

It was fun to call American sports commissioners czars, but once players started to have unions, a commissioner really became more like a majority leader in a legislature, trying to keep his party — the owners — together in their financial battles against the minority opposition, the athletes.

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