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Book review: Cloudy with a chance for terror in Joe Hill’s “Strange Weather”
Joe Hill, the author of several terrifying best-sellers, rises to this challenge in "Strange Weather," a striking if sometimes uneven collection of four short novels.

Book review: How a military catastrophe became Britain’s “finest hour”
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory

Don’t believe the hype. You don’t need glasses in multiple shapes and sizes to enjoy wine.
Have you ever stood before a store shelf full of wine glasses and just shook your head? Or flipped the pages of a wine gadgetry catalogue, or Googled wine glasses?...

How good has U.S. cheese become? Good enough to worry the Italians.
A few weeks ago, I witnessed an unprecedented moment in the evolution of American artisan cheese.

Book review: What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew
Although her life was cut short at 30, her correspondence was voluminous.

Book Review: On the road with a new kind of workforce
Hitting the open road - not for adventure, but to make ends meet

Being in shape may not protect your heart
Exercise does a lot to strengthen the heart and lengthen lives, experts say. But heart problems are still common -- and sometimes dramatic -- in active people.

Review: “Marshall” is an engaging portrait of the justice as a young man
"Marshall" is set in the Jim Crow era and centers on the case of a black man who has been accused of raping a white woman.

Veterinary team uses a 3-D printer to create a plastic prosthesis for a parrot attacked by a fox
The stump of what remained of Pete's left leg rested in a bootlike prosthesis, just one day after he was introduced to the latest in a line of 3-D-printed plastic...

“The Woman Who Smashed Codes” should be the next “Hidden Figures”
Jason Fagone's "The Woman Who Smashed Codes" is a fascinating combination of love story, spy novel and war tale, all of it true, most of it perfect for the big...