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Top 10 Best Places for Donuts

Every culture has fried dough—German Berliners, Italian zeppole, French beignets, and Indian balushahi—but none can top the gut-busting pleasure of the American donut. It’s the latest iconic food to undergo a renaissance; here are our picks for the best classic and newfangled donut purveyors across the country.

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By Andrew Knowlton

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The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

You Have to Be Able to See the Screen

I was interested in extending my “computer” glasses, the ubiquitous reading glasses of yesterday set for the focal length for computer screens and I wondered what everyone else was finding now that computer screens are finally commonplace.  I ran across this article “To Work on the Web, You Have to Be Able to See the [...]

Squeeze in exercise at work as well as home

Was it only last October 7th that the new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans was released by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services?  It was!  The highlight of the new guidelines was the amount of exercise set for adults for a minimum, 2 1/2 hours a week, and for extensive health benefits, five [...]