By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press Eggplant shines in this dish, where its melt-in-your mouth consistency and ability to soak up a flavour-packed sauce are on full display. But its excess moisture can be a serious liability, leading many recipes to require time-consuming salting, draining and drying. We wanted […]
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By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press One of the best ways to serve banana bread is with toasted nuts. Toasting nuts in the oven makes them taste better. Spread the nuts out on a rimmed baking sheet and heat the nuts in a 350 F oven until you can […]
By David Paddon The Canadian Press TORONTO — Anyone who has seen an “Intel Inside” label on a piece of computer technology will instantly grasp what BlackBerry Ltd. is aiming to achieve with its “BlackBerry Secure” branding strategy. The Canadian technology company, based in Waterloo, Ont., unveiled the latest components […]
The Associated PressBarry Wilner CHICAGO–The Philadelphia Eagles needed help to get into the playoffs–and Chicago provided it. Look how the defending Super Bowl champions repaid the Bears. Nick Foles hit Golden Tate with a two-yard touchdown pass on fourth down with 56 seconds to go against the NFL’s stingiest defence, […]
By Joe McDonald THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Huawei Technologies Ltd. showed off a new processor chip for data centres and cloud computing Monday, expanding into new and growing markets despite Western warnings the company might be a security risk. Huawei and other Chinese technology companies that rely on Western […]
By Barbara Ortutay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The world’s largest tech conference has apparently learned a big lesson about gender equity. CES, the huge annual consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas, caught major flak from activists in late 2017 when it unveiled an all-male lineup of keynote speakers for […]
The Associated Press BEIJING–China’s burgeoning space program achieved a first today: a landing on the so-called “dark” side of the moon. Three nations–the United States, the former Soviet Union, and more recently China–have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces Earth, but this landing is the […]
The Associated PressMarcia Dunn LAUREL, Md.–A NASA spacecraft four billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures yesterday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object has been dubbed, was found to consist of two […]
The Associated PressJeff Karoub DETROIT–No collusion! (Or at least a lot less of it). That’s according to a Michigan school’s latest “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use, and General Uselessness.” The politically-charged term at the centre of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether U.S. […]
The Associated Press MEXICO CITY–Mexican experts say they have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said yesterday the find was made during recent excavations of Popoloca Indian ruins in Puebla state. […]
The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexican experts say they have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday the find was made during recent excavations of Popoloca Indian ruins in […]
By Bill Graveland THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Dollar and Ghost are watching with great interest as their owners bounce along to “Staying Alive” by the Bee Gees. Dollar, or Dolly as she is called by her owner, even gets up close and personal. The Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever […]
