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Welcome, fellow megalomaniacs intent on domination. You don't care about ruling the Earth, or even presiding over the solar system. It's all or nothing; give us the title Ruler of...

Most people think of their homes as safe and comfortable. New parents, however, may not realize that their homes are full of life- and limb-threatening hazards for young children. More...

Warning: Exposure to computer screens for long periods can make users act strangely, like making strange little symbols with keyboard characters. Surfers of the Internet know them as "emoticons" or...

Data courier Johnny Mnemonic (ni-MAHN-ik) has a problem. He's carrying valuable information on a computer chip in his head. People want that information badly enough to kill him for it--if...

How long can regular viewing of one workout tape, one teacher and one set of routines be inspirational? A new video series, presented by Shape magazine and BodyVision videos, seeks...

In Percy Adlon's "Younger & Younger," a direct-to-video winner that should have been a hit for some movie-theater distributor, we have the most delectable supernatural-romance fantasy since Rex Harrison spooked...

When my orange tabby cat, Pebbles, scratched furniture, I tolerated it . . . until I had had too much. So I had his front feet declawed. Now, 13 years...

In an effort to preserve the nation's tall-grass prairies, Ft. Worth millionaire Ed Bass is paying a private conservation group $2 million for grazing rights on almost 11,000 acres in...

As animal owners may have discovered, pet books are taking more and more shelf space in bookstores. Books offer good reading about purebreds, randomly bred animals, behavior and health. They...

In July 1991, Benjamin H. Jones Jr. lay on an operating table at Osteopathic Medical Center of Texas while a surgeon removed most of his cancerous right lung, leaving him...