When beer was a health drink

Source: MPR | Minnesota Public Radio

NEW YORK (AP) -- Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times. And it's not your ty ...
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No dogs allowed!? Fighting words on the Incline

Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

For an illegal hiking trail, the Manitou Incline has a lot of suggested rules – not that they don’t make sense. But the one rule that may by the most contentious is that dogs are not allowed on the brutal one-mile climb up ...
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Falmouth raps out 13 hits, rolls at Freeport, 12-2

Source: The Forecaster, Southern Maine

FREEPORT—It might have been the 10:30 a.m. start time or even the aftermath of a tough loss Friday afternoon, but it took the Falmouth baseball team a few innings to hit its stride Saturday. But the Yachtsmen ultimately d ...
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Braves quotes after Saturday loss to Nationals

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution Blogs

FREDI GONZALEZ On Minor “There were some hurdles that he cleared. The first inning gets second and third and minimized that damage, just one run. And then after we scored he came back and gave us a shutdown inning. He gave us ...
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Afloat and feeling free

Source: The Star Malaysia

Water, sun and fun have a way of buoying up ones spirits. ILL be honest and state here that I had started another piece to share with you this week, but it had hints of negativity, so I decided that I would refocus and keep ...
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S/V Si Bon: What happened to Bud?

Source: Sail Blogs

The first hurricane of the 2012 Eastern Pacific hurricane season has come and gone. I had been tracking a tropical depression which formed off of the Southern Mexico coast for about a week. I had watched the forecasters change ...
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Sounders FC vs. Chivas USA, pregame

Source: The Seattle Times

Joshua Mayers is the Seattle Sounders FC writer for The Seattle Times. Watch for his coverage of the team, Major League Soccer and soccer around the world. CARSON, Calif.---Welcome to The Home Depot Center, where it's a cool, sunny Saturday evening. The ...
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Food industry experience offered

Source: This Is London

Thousands of unemployed young people are to be given free skills training from giants of the food industry. Farms, factories and shops are throwing open their doors for the scheme, Feeding Britain's Futu ...
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High temperature in Boise Saturday didn't reach 60 find out how much longer cool, wet weather expected to last

Source: Boise Basin District

Hot enough for you? Probably not, if you were looking forward to basking in the sun this weekend. The high temperatures in Boise the past few days have been cool just 62 on Thursday and Friday, according to the Nation ...
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