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Do your boiled eggs come out like old shoe leather? Is your broccoli flaccid? Swiss chef Rene Notter may have some ideas. The 55-year-old started the website ABC of Cooking four years ago to offer home chefs tips and tricks. “It’s not meant for prof...

E-mail issues left Jennifer Fahnbulleh wanting to tear her hair out last summer. Deaf, she couldn’t call the company hotline, and her e-mails went ignored. “I think employees see the e-mails and think what is this, and just ignore them,” said Mrs Fa...

Colleen DeGrilla used to spend her time dashing from crisis to crisis. She was a social worker at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital at the time, dealing with everything from suspected child abuse to emergency air vacs. Today her pace is a lot slower...

Cap, Sheikh, Lucky — everyone had a nickname when “Forty” Rego was growing up. Few people know that Bermuda’s legendary boxing trainer was given his as a teenager, while working on a farm. “Every time I did something, I’d do it fast,” said the 85-ye...

Dots, stars, stripes, you name the pattern and DaShawn Vickers has drawn it. The Purvis Primary student decorated hundreds of tiny equilateral triangles and then arranged them to form a larger equilateral triangle, known as a Sierpinski pyramid. Prin...

Five bags of groceries, two children and no transportation: Shellvina Caines really needed a hero. The 28-year-old was stranded at Maximart Supermarket, and had her hands full. “My two children and I walked to the grocery store from our home as we ...

Winnie Oatley’s mother lived to be 96; her brothers are both in their nineties. Still, she was a bit disbelieving when she celebrated her 99th birthday in February. “I don’t know why, I just never expected to live so long,” said Mrs Oatley. “Life is...

J.P. Skinner will never forget the wonder of his first scuba dive. He was 16, and captivated by all the fish. “I thought, for thousands of years people haven’t been able to do this, and I can,” he said. Since 2001 he’s spent much of his time sharing...

The four-letter expletive he’d spread across canvas appropriately summed up Calix Smith’s frustration with the education system. He couldn’t believe it when the organisers of a fashion show wouldn’t let him hang it at their event last year. “It was o...

At 23, Jason Minors was riding his bike when he impulsively hit the throttle. It’s a decision he will always regret. Before he knew it, he was flat on a sidewalk, his back broken. Doctors told him he would never walk again. Two years ago, determined ...