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Lunch — the other Thanksgiving meal. (Photo by Helen Shen)

Making Room for Thanksgiving Stuffing

I didn’t grow up eating Thanksgiving dinner, but over the years I’ve learned how to do the traditional American turkey-day right. There’s the carving of large birds, the mashing of potatoes, and of course, the skipping of lunch. Most people I know skip lunch on Thanksgiving. We may call it “saving room for dinner,” but…

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Happy Thanksgiving: TurkeyGobbleGobble.

Ben Franklin had a thing for turkeys, and thought they — not the bald eagle —  ought to be the national symbol: “For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly,…

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The worst travel day of the year

Anyone flying on November 24th this year should probably plan to get to the airport extra early: A group of travelers’-rights advocates are organizing a nationwide boycott of the full-body scanners used in security checks in airports. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is usually the busiest travel day of the year, and an organized protests of…

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