By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN Ragu can be made from any meat or combination of meats, but the earthiness of a pure pork ragu is undeniably attractive_and great comfort food. Most recipes for traditional pork ragu use pork shoulder and a hard-to-find, bony cut like neck, shank, or feet to ...
By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press For thousands of teens, the ideal summer camp has nothing to do with roasting s’mores over a fire. It’s about devoting an intensive week or two — or maybe the entire summer — on a college campus, immersed in the world of policy debate. ...
(AP) Kids spend hours having fun at day camp, their summer schedules brimming with swimming, boating and aiming for that bull’s-eye. Through all the laughs and memory-making, though, they’re also getting something else: a boost to their social development. “Because there is so much social interaction, you see an acceleration of kids’ friendship skills, conflict resolution skills, empathy and other social skills,” says Christopher Thurber , a clinical psychologist and longtime camp employee and leadership adviser. “Day camp is great because your child becomes their best ...
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MARQUETTE — It might not be “advisable” to write an overly long “narrative” on a “roadrunner.” But if you were one of the participants in Tuesday’s Scripps Spelling Bee held at Kaufman Auditorium, at least you probably knew how to spell those words. Sixth-, seventh- ...
Well, this will be the second time I’ve written a column about a video game made in the early 2000s. If you didn’t read the first one I wrote, it was about Battle for Wesnoth, a tile-based fantasy battle game released in 2003. For a solid year, I have been researching on-and-off a game called Dwarf Fortress. The game was released in 2006. One of the most notable features of Dwarf Fortress is the fact that it has no graphics. It uses ASCII symbols of varying colors to represent the environment, characters and animals that populate the in-game world. The main theme of the game is to ...
