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Month: October 2019

Wegmans opens its 101st store. It’s in Brooklyn

Wegmans, the 103-year-old grocery chain that has a rabid following, opened its highly anticipated first New York City store on Sunday. The 74,000-square-foot location, which was first announced in 2015, is located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Wegmans is the buzziest part of the former military base on the East River that’s currently undergoing a

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‘The Morning Show’ sounds muted alarm for Apple TV+

“The Morning Show” is the showiest of Apple TV+’s new series, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in a drama with a timely tie-in to the back-in-the-headlines scandal surrounding Matt Lauer’s “Today” show exit. As executed, though, hold that wake-up call, considering that most of its big ideas essentially rehash ground “Network” covered more than

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Mosul takes delivery of recreated icons

Two vast reproduction Assyrian statues were unveiled in Iraq on Thursday as part of a project designed to restore the cultural heritage of Mosul, an ancient city badly damaged by recent conflicts. The statues portray two Assyrian deities known as lamassu and were donated to the University of Mosul by Madrid-based NGO Factum Foundation and

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What makes soda so addictive?

Slashing soft drinks from your diet is a quick way to improve your health and lose weight — that much you probably already know. But actually giving up your soda habit isn’t always an easy task. While some people can function just fine without soft drinks, others find they need their fix starting at breakfast.

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