Carol Ann Carnese never considered herself an anxious person. Except when it came to wet wood.
Five years ago, Sara Vreed got embroiled in soap-opera-style custody arrangements with her ex-boyfriend -- and they don't even have children. What was at stake were the living arrangements for their 5-year-old canine, a Shetland sheepdog named Ivo.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- More than 100 fans welcomed Spanish guard Rudy Fernandez to the Portland Trail Blazers upon his arrival to the city with chants of "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!"
Thousands of fans passed through the turnstiles of Yankee Stadium for the last time Sunday to watch the Bronx Bombers beat the Baltimore Orioles.
A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
I've never considered myself materialistic. I don't like to shop. I own maybe five pairs of shoes, and would much rather spend money on an adventure, a good cause or a gift.
It's no surprise: Americans are super-opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit. In fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 America's Favorite Cities survey -- conducted by travelandleisure.com and CNN Headline News -- Americans voted more than 600,000 times on 45 characteristics of 25 cities, weighing in on things like shopping, food, culture and nightlife, as well as cleanliness and affordability.
He's only 34, but Darin Knight admits he's already losing sleep over his retirement. He would like to stop working at age 55, but watching $18,000 in his 401(k) disappear over the past 12 months has left him uncertain and disillusioned.
Since the U.S. Open (among other tennis events) is all about gender equity, do you think we will ever have the evening session "start" with a men's match and then be "followed" by the women's match. For a working person on the East Coast, it's hard to stay up and watch the men's matches, such as the Blake/Young match, especially when they start after 9 p.m. Just looking for equal rights. -- John, Greenville, S.C.
Soccer turns out to be the only language the kids need.
Carol Ann Carnese never considered herself an anxious person. Except when it came to wet wood.
Five years ago, Sara Vreed got embroiled in soap-opera-style custody arrangements with her ex-boyfriend -- and they don't even have children. What was at stake were the living arrangements for their 5-year-old canine, a Shetland sheepdog named Ivo.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- More than 100 fans welcomed Spanish guard Rudy Fernandez to the Portland Trail Blazers upon his arrival to the city with chants of "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!"
Thousands of fans passed through the turnstiles of Yankee Stadium for the last time Sunday to watch the Bronx Bombers beat the Baltimore Orioles.
A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
I've never considered myself materialistic. I don't like to shop. I own maybe five pairs of shoes, and would much rather spend money on an adventure, a good cause or a gift.
It's no surprise: Americans are super-opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit. In fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 America's Favorite Cities survey -- conducted by travelandleisure.com and CNN Headline News -- Americans voted more than 600,000 times on 45 characteristics of 25 cities, weighing in on things like shopping, food, culture and nightlife, as well as cleanliness and affordability.
He's only 34, but Darin Knight admits he's already losing sleep over his retirement. He would like to stop working at age 55, but watching $18,000 in his 401(k) disappear over the past 12 months has left him uncertain and disillusioned.
Since the U.S. Open (among other tennis events) is all about gender equity, do you think we will ever have the evening session "start" with a men's match and then be "followed" by the women's match. For a working person on the East Coast, it's hard to stay up and watch the men's matches, such as the Blake/Young match, especially when they start after 9 p.m. Just looking for equal rights. -- John, Greenville, S.C.
Soccer turns out to be the only language the kids need.
Gasoline prices fell Sunday, bringing down the nationwide average in a motorist group survey by more than 42 cents overall from a mid-July high.
Most states don't recognize gay marriage -- but now Hallmark does
Would you still watch your favorite television program if you had to cycle for an hour before you could view it?
Let it never be said that Kevin Schwartz's marketing isn't tasteful. Schwartz is founder of BabyGanics, an 11-employee outfit in Oceanside, N.Y., that makes green cleaning supplies. Whenever Schwartz demonstrates his product's eco-friendly attributes, he fills a shot glass with a BabyGanics product and drinks it.
A new study shows that dieters can double their weight loss by jotting down what foods they eat
Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90
The rock trio will set out on tour in September – for a good cause
This is already one of the worst national housing downturns in half a century. But what's really scary is that judging from the still-huge overhang of unsold homes - one of the key indicators of the market's prospects - things could get worse. In fact, much worse if the economy slips into recession.
Conventional wisdom has it that professional fighting is simply a way out, a rough sport where society's poor excel and few others even dare attempt. Just look at the all the rags-to-riches stories associated with boxing.
What if there was something simple you could do every day that would burn calories, be good for your heart, and help you stay young. You'd do it, right?
When Mike Sinyard started importing Italian bike parts in 1974, his toughest challenge was finding space to store them inside his eight- by 30-foot trailer.
The average price of gasoline has jumped another 17 cents a gallon in the past two weeks to a record-breaking $3.79 a gallon for self-serve regular, according to a national survey released Sunday.
The GOP candidate's global warming plan has its flaws. But he has engaged the issue, and that bodes well for the '08 campaign
Attorneys will attempt to show that vaccines with the thimerosal preservative triggers symptoms of autism
Some of the last, best housing markets - the ones that continued to climb even as the rest of the country cratered - have turned south lately.
After a two-week climb in gasoline prices, there appeared to be some short-term moderation Monday - but another run at the record high set last week seems likely, two surveys indicated.
Home prices have posted another record decline, as most of the nation's largest markets suffered double-digit drops over last year, a survey released Tuesday shows.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The most intriguing players in the Nike Hoop Summit came from the World Select Team, including one who will be in the NBA draft this June. With better guard play, the 19-and-under international team could have made a run at upsetting the heavily favored U.S. Junior Select Team, a 98-78 winner Saturday thanks to impressive performances from forwards Demar DeRozan (17 points), who is headed to USC, and Drew Gordon (15 points on seven shots), one of four players in the game committed to UCLA.
Also in this column: • Rose vs. Beasley draft debate • My picks for the All-Defensive team
When Susie Toth's boyfriend told her a few months after she moved in that they "needed to talk," she was crestfallen.
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kobe Bryant has invested these past five months in trying to gain leverage over his career. The previous four years are his self-imposed burden, and lately he has been trying to lift that gathering weight and tip it over upon itself. He is succeeding.
More than a decade after the Internet allowed millions of people to work at home, the next phase of telecommuting involves, well, not working at home.
With energy prices soaring, affordable solar power would be welcomed by any entrepreneur looking to trim the electric bill. Trouble is, power generated by the most widely available technology - panels covered with photovoltaic (PV) systems, which translate sunlight into AC current - still costs two to three times more than electricity generated from coal and other fossil fuels. That may be about to change.
Gas prices surged nearly 7 cents over the past two weeks to reach an all-time inflation-adjusted high of $3.26 per gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Gas prices surged nearly 7 cents over the past two weeks to reach an all-time inflation-adjusted high of $3.26 per gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
For 24 years, the NBA commissioner has helped globalize pro basketball. And this year's compelling season could lift the league out of a ratings funk. David Stern will now take your questions
Jenni Hunt is an attractive, talented and ambitious professional from Portland, Oregon. She runs her own Internet business, selling on online auction site eBay and advising others how to navigate the site to gain maximum profits.
Jessica Caulfield decided to open a women's clothing boutique in Hoboken, New Jersey, she had no idea what she was doing.
The decline in residential real estate accelerated though the end of 2007, and home prices in 20 key markets plunged 9.1% for the year, according to a survey released Tuesday.
To celebrate our 20th year of publication, Cooking Light wanted to know what places best fit our philosophy to eat smart, be fit, and live well. Using statistics from such organizations as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Zagat Survey, we ranked major metropolitan areas on 15 criteria. The result, we think, is a ranking of U.S. cities that best provide the resources people need to live healthful lives.
The Kevin Hart saga zoomed past weird last week and careened directly into surreal. How? Jerry Glanville got involved.
U.S. Coast Guard planes and ships were searching Friday for a Japanese balloonist who disappeared off the Alaska coast while flying from Japan to the west coast United States.
The housing market is only getting worse, according to the latest report from S&P Case/Shiller released Tuesday.
After a lull toward the end of 2007, gas prices shot back up nearly ten cents a gallon over the past three weeks, crossing the $3 mark again, according to a survey published Sunday.
Home prices fell 6.7 percent in October, compared with a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller 10-city home-price index. It was the largest drop recorded since the index began in 1987.
A pair of storms that slammed into the Pacific Northwest had much of the region under water Tuesday, leaving five people dead, thousands without power and major highways shut down.
At Hook, a Washington, D.C., seafood restaurant, there's no Chilean sea bass, bluefin tuna or grouper on the menu. You can't order asparagus in the fall, or strawberries in winter.
Use five-minute windows of time to make big headway on making meals.
I'd like to take a second to pat myself on the back for my spot-on Davis Cup predictions. If you take a look at the column I wrote back in February, I stated this would be the year the United States would end its Davis Cup title drought. Now, with the final upon us, I feel like it's time to bask in the glory.
What's the most valuable lesson you've learnt? Has school or life taught you more? What do you think is the future of education? Share your thoughts and we'll print the best ones here.
The price of gasoline has jumped another 13 cents in the last two weeks, close to the all-time high set earlier this year, according to a survey published Sunday.
I wish someone had tapped me on the shoulder back in early August when I was churning out all that season preview material and informed me that come mid-November, I would be leading the Mailbag with a debate over Kansas' place in the BCS pecking order.
Dear FSB: What is the best strategy for hiring quality employees and retaining them? How do small businesses compete with bigger firms and become successful enough to grow larger?
"I picked up the kids from daycare all week; you bathed the dog."
What does the "war on terror" mean for America's small businesses? A government report, released Wednesday, said that military operations related to the war could add as much as $1.7 trillion by the year 2017 to the hundreds of billions we already spend on defense.
Say you're in the mood to indulge in a shoe-shopping spree -- does a certain city pop to mind? How about an urban destination for a romantic weekend? Where in the U.S. can you find the most compelling museums or thrilling club scene? Is the city with the most attractive citizens also the one with the best opportunities for people-watching?
The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever next week when three fictional "dirty bombs" cripple arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam
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