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Your quest for the best tech gifts of the year starts right here. From the hottest tablets and our favorite big-screen phone to a booming wireless speaker, these are the gadgets at the very top of our wish lists. You’ll also find a killer smartwatch and a fitness tracker that will help your loved ones get a head start on …

ong-term unemployment is damaging to individuals and communities, it affects mental and physical health, and holds back economic growth. We want to help people into work and make sure that work pays. In return, people on out-of-work benefits need to take the opportunities available to them to move off benefits and into work. Out of work older people can find …

Competition can be fierce in today’s post-financial crisis job market, so ensuring a secure future starts with planning a course of college study that will garner a lucrative, long-term career. Which college you attend definitely makes a difference, but the type of major that produces an in-demand degree is paramount. Here are three current college majors that can net you …

To describe the pattern of alcoholic beverage consumption and the prevalence of at risk drinking behaviors, as well as their association with demographic and socioeconomic factors in the adult population of Porto Alegre, a southern Brazilian city.

BAFTA nominated Jessie Wallace (EastEnders) as Lil and Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet, The Krays, The Bodyguard) as PC Collins will lead the cast in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, with Sarah Middleton as Rosie, Ruth Alfie Adams as Brenda, Will Barton as Percy and Suzie Chard as Betty, with further casting to be announced shortly.

Workers began removing 12,000 cubic yards of arsenic-contaminated sediment in Lake Union on Thursday. It’s a first-of-its kind clean-up program launched after many years of planning by the Washington State Department of Ecology. And with the first load of gunk hauled up by an enormous crane, an important chapter begins. The owner of the Northlake Shipyard bought the property years …

Barely out of her teens, singer, songwriter and classically trained pianist Alicia Keys stormed the pop charts in the early 2000s with a mature-beyond-her-age mix of soul, jazz and hip-hop. Thanks to an extra push from an appearance on Oprah the day before its release, her debut Songs in A Minor (Number One, 2001) sold 235,000 copies in its first …

“Making Hanukkah cookies is a tradition I began last year when [my daughter] Josselyn was 3 years old,” says ET correspondent Samantha Harris, a collaborator on the Samantha Jean for DL1961. “It’s a fun, hands-on experience for her that also promotes her artistic expression while allowing for bonding time. This year, she is so excited to do it again and …

The Cooking Channel is featuring a new holiday cookie recipe from Michelle. Learn how to make Cinnamon and Chocolate Spiced Mexican Wedding Cookies – a recipe Michelle and her family bake for holiday cookie exchanges. Get the recipe and read her blog here. What’s your favorite holiday cookie to bake? Have you tried one of Michelle’s recipes? Share your comments …

Carrie cooked up Ooey Gooey bars for Neil Patrick Harris. Since she made such huge batch, she sent him home with a bag of extras (mostly the edges, since those are his favorite). Mariana said that after her shoot was finished, Blair Underwood, his mom, and the rest of their family all sat down to eat the casserole that she …

“As a vegan, a chocoholic, and someone who likes the ingredients of pecan pie but not in a pie form, I love this recipe as the solution to all of my holiday problems,” says The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik (who also has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a parenting book being published by Simon & Schuster next spring). …