Bob Condor

You have likely read or heard the news that McDonald's has been reporting monthly losses for more than a year. But sales rebounded to a 1.3 percent gain in April,...

Thirty years ago, Dvera Berson was wintering in Florida to escape the cold weather of her native New York. She suffered from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and cervical spondylosis. Every...

Here are some of the numerous ingredients in Chicken McNuggets (besides chicken): water, salt, modified cornstarch. OK, the first two are straightforward. It's unclear how you "modify" cornstarch, but apparently...

The lawsuits are certainly conversation-starters. In one case, McDonald's settled out of court for $12.5 million because the company used tallow or beef fat in its french fries without telling...

Running has carried Beth Onines through her years of mothering. She started running as a 27-year-old with two toddlers at home. Her third child wasn't yet born. "I went to...

Be ready to put aside your opinions about Bill Gates and whether any person should accumulate that much wealth. Gates will show a different side of himself in an extensive...

Some of the simplest questions have the most difficult answers. Here's an example: How do we stop the epidemic of obese and overweight children? "Oh, that's a good question," said...

Baseball and beer go together like, well, outfielders and whopping contracts. Although there is concern about the recent tackling of an umpire and last weekend's unfortunate cell-phone beaning of a...

One privilege of writing a newspaper column is hearing from the people who read it. I was especially honored to hear from Lauren Jurgens, who explained herself in a Feb....

This is the sort of people British psychologist Richard Wiseman studies as part of his research: a British gentleman who considers himself unlucky because the week he won the lottery,...