On a trip to New York this summer, I was in the newsstand/gift shop of a hotel, and a man in front of me in line was purchasing something. I heard the clerk say to him: "That will be $18.30."
How do dry economic numbers translate into real human pain?
You have no interest in being 21 again. (Neither do we.) But, oh, wouldn't it be nice to feel 21 again: The energy! The metabolism! The sense of I-can-accomplish-anything-I-set-my-mind-to!
You know that great television commercial you saw from the peanut butter company that wants the world to know how much U.S. troops in Afghanistan love eating its product?
Why did no one miss him? Why didn't anyone seem to even notice he wasn't around?
There was a moment that came and went quickly during Monday's White House ceremony posthumously awarding the Medal of Honor to two Army privates who were killed in the Korean War.
Bagpipers sing "God Bless America" with a crowd of people at Ground Zero to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden.
Even as her grandson and his new bride were saying their vows Friday, there she was, being gazed upon by the world.
The happily-ever-after business would not necessarily seem to be a growth industry these days.
CNN's Zain Verjee shares details of who will be attending the royal wedding.
CNN's Max Foster goes to one of London's top men's tailors to see what to wear for the royal wedding.
First, I wanted to find out if Lyndon Sanders was still alive. Second, I wanted to find out if he was feeling triumphant.
How worried are you feeling about radiation?
So there is Abraham Lincoln -- Henry Fonda, actually, in a stovepipe hat -- walking toward the horizon as the gorgeous strains of an orchestra swell up behind him. Soon the orchestra is joined by a choir, the strings and the voices blending into a beautiful, almost ethereal, rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Thunder crackles in the cinematic sky.
Graciousness can pay priceless dividends.
Why does it always seem to take something like this to move us, however briefly, toward civility and mutual understanding?
On Monday night, with millions of fans watching every play, Auburn will take on Oregon for the national championship of college football.
A person who dies a violent and newsmaking death is often destined to be defined by a brief label.
Earlier this year I happened upon a movie I had heard nothing about.
As you are standing in an airport security line this Thanksgiving week, waiting to be funneled into one of the invasive new body-imaging machines, or, if you decline that, to be pulled aside and subjected to a way-too-personal pat-down, ask yourself how you would feel if you lived in a country like this:
TSA administrator John Pistole says that airport screening procedures will not change because they keep us safe.
It is one place where they wish that business wasn't booming.
The good news is that you'll still be allowed to look out the window.
The searchers search, even when they fear that they may fail.
If you should find yourself visiting New York -- or even if New York is where you live -- there is a place I'd like to recommend that you stop by.
Families remember the moment they were told a Chilean mine had collapsed and their loved ones were trapped. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports.
You wouldn't think the stakes could get any higher.
Want a hot tip about how to make a financial killing this year?
The throaty, thumping churn of the military helicopter convoy is a sound like no other.
The question is not just whether Jim Thorpe, in death, will ever be allowed to rest in peace.
It's beginning to feel like this has been with us forever.
The enduring beauty of the U.S. Open has little to do with the golf course on which it is played in a given year.
When Butler plays Duke for the national championship of college basketball Monday night, you can count on two things with absolute certainty:
It would have been one of the most memorable moments in the history of the Olympic Games.
There was a phrase, or so we have long been told, that was heard in occupied Europe during World War II.
If you plan on watching the Super Bowl Sunday, there is one aspect of the game that can be predicted with absolute certainty:
If you've ever had a group of friends who have meant the world to you, take a look at the old black-and-white photo that accompanies today's column.
The woman's Halloween costume featured a Third Reich motif.
It is a phrase that has for centuries been associated with human conflict:
There are some things we should never allow ourselves to get used to.
You seemed a little bit interested in last Sunday's column: the one about the prospect of Saturday mail delivery being eliminated by the U.S. Postal Service.
Beer summits at the White House notwithstanding, not all controversies between the police and the citizens they serve are destined to turn into gauzy, orchestrated "teachable moments."
The localness of what we did down at the paper defined everything. Even as a kid brand-new to the staff and brand-new to the newspaper business, hired to work during summer vacations, I could tell that.
She would come walking across the lawn just after sunrise.
The two guys were wrestling the heavy glass-fronted cooler from the back of a Pepsi truck.
This is the Mother's Day we thought was going to be empty.
Showbiz Tonight's AJ Hammer talks with panel members about their reaction to Kristie Alley's apology for her weight gain.
Celebrities and their bodies. We're obsessed. They're obsessed. And it spills over to how many people feel about themselves. But how much concern over weight gain is about vanity and how much is about critical health issues?
Take a stroll through the aisles of one of the big national chain-pharmacy stores: Walgreens, or CVS, or Rite Aid.
You've undoubtedly heard that John Madden has left the football broadcast booth. What you may not have heard is that he's not leaving his bus.
"We have to keep up with the world," said Laurel Selkin, in Rapid City, South Dakota. "This has always been a peaceful, loving haven, a place to sit and reflect and be able to think. That part won't change."
There is a beach in Coronado, California, just across the bridge from San Diego. It offers a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean, which is why it attracts tourists who are drawn to the sun.
As the country frets about extricating itself from the financial mess, there is one group of Americans to whom the rest of us owe the most sincere words of apology.
Carnage in Germany, carnage in Alabama, and one of the most saddening aspects of the killings is this:
I've never been one to attend the performances of symphony orchestras, but off and on, for more than 35 years, I gave myself the gift of something even better:
There is a sound we have come to take utterly for granted, as instantly recognizable as the reliable resonance of baseball games on the radio, or the timbre of the television weathercaster telling us whether it will rain tomorrow morning.
He was one of the relatively few people in the world who couldn't see the picture.
CNN's Larry King spoke Tuesday evening with a team of fitness and health experts about Oprah Winfrey's latest bout with weight gain, and they reveal how she's fighting back.
Oprah's struggle with her weight has become almost mythic--it's not just that she's been so open and honest about it, but that millions of people share her story.
Whatever's keeping you up at night -- enough already! Give peace of mind a chance with this expert advice.
Consumers these days endure advertising on the floors of supermarkets, in the sanitary-cakes of urinals, even tattooed onto the heads of college kids.
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