As consumers focus on the essentials these days, perhaps the businesses most hurt by the current recession are the local mom-and-pop stores. ...more

October 21, 2009

Are hard times threatening your Christmas dinner? If so, Peru has the answer: guinea pigs. ...more

December 16, 2008

You can't put a price on unconditional love, but with emotional commitment comes financial commitment. ...more

September 10, 2008

Brittany Barrett finds it almost impossible to resist the alluring smells and scrumptious tastes of freshly baked treats. ...more

September 3, 2008

Perhaps there are many others who did just as we should have this past weekend and early days of the week in getting ready for what could have been a hurricane. I took down and put away anything that could have become a projectile and basically cleaned up my back yard, which was in great need of being cleaned up. But just as we are a bit angry at the work we put into getting ready for what turned out to be not much more than some rather heavy rain showers, we are just as thankful for all the rain Tropical Storm Fay dumped onto our lawns and lakes. ...more

August 29, 2008

Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection - and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news. ...more

August 24, 2008

Water is typically a firefighter's best friend. But drop a 180-pound man wearing 60 pounds of bunker gear into a swimming pool and you've got problems. Add the fact that the firefighter is probably stumbling blind through black smoke when his solid footing gives way and the problems multiply. ...more

August 20, 2008

Water is typically a firefighter's best friend. ...more

August 20, 2008

Remington ShortCut Clipper Remington is playing the David Beckham/Justin Timberlake card in promoting its ShortCut Clipper, a product designed for men - and presumably women after the shaved-head Sinead O'Connor look - who want to cut their own hair. ...more

June 28, 2008

Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that scurried across wooded areas of South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was not connected to North America. ...more

January 17, 2008