Please, no wagering: While it will be months before you can fill out a March Madness bracket, we’ve put together a similar tournament that pits 64 Thanksgiving food favorites against each other to determine the champion comestible. You can vote online at HeraldNet.com/foodfight.
Traditional roast turkey and pumpkin pie are probably the heavy favorites, but we think the county’s Scandinavian community could make lefse a real threat to take the starches division and land in the final four.
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Beauty and the beasts of burden: An economics professor says in his new book, “Beauty Pays” that people with good looks are generally happier and earn $230,000 more in a lifetime than workers with below-average looks.
Like we needed another reason to envy the 1 percent.
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Didn’t realize Thomas Kinkaide was that old: Scientists have used DNA tests to confirm that Ice Age cave painting artists were aiming for a realism when they portrayed horses with spotted coats in cave paintings in France.
The finding also was supported by an Ice Age art review by a prehistoric French critic, in a woolly mammoth beret, who sniffed that the paintings were too representational and deserved to be hidden in a cave.
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