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Making chocolate shavings or curls looks more difficult than it really is. Shavings are somewhat smaller and more broken up; curls are wider and, generally have a curled shape to...

The familiar roar of ski boats is back in Central Florida. Cypress Gardens, the landmark theme park that closed in April 2003 after more than six decades and 50 million...

Inexpensive computers do a fine job at the tasks most consumers take on. They'll cruise the Web, crank out correspondence, figure family budgets, edit photos and run almost any modern...

In a weekend in mid-October--theoretically off-season--all 2,300 rooms at the sprawling Atlantis resort were booked. Even the $700 rooms at the fashionable Ocean Club. For three days, the spa had...

Good-looking people get all the breaks, including the ultimate one. Now there's evidence they live longer too. Researchers have found that--get this--people with the most attractive faces live longer than...

T.I. Urban Legend T.I.'s 2001 debut "I'm Serious" wasn't taken that way, even though it deserved to be. He followed it two years later with the even better "Trap Muzik."...

They spend most of the year in dusty corners of the garage, basement or attic. Coiled like vipers, they await the spark that will bring them back to life. If...

It's December--do you know where your back-yard birds are? Better yet, do your neighborhood birds know where you are? When it comes to the cabin fever that no doubt lies...

Fantasia Free Yourself The "American Idol" champ--who has dropped her last name, Barrino--outclasses the competition and emerges with the finest debut of all the former "Idol" contestants. "Free Yourself" is...

Is she nuts? Or just New Age? Aleta St. James probably didn't set out to become one of the oldest women on record to give birth when she snagged some...