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Home for former White Sox and current Astro Carlos Lee is a small sugar-cane town in the Panamanian province of Cocle, 86 miles from the capital, Panama City. But that's...

Astronaut William Oefelein has taken a leave from NASA's Johnson Space Center to join girlfriend Colleen Shipman in Florida after the attack on her, allegedly by astronaut Lisa Nowak, a...

Colleen Shipman's 2002 Reserve Officers' Training Corps portrait shows a stern-faced young woman in dress blues, preparing for a career in the military. The 30-year-old Shipman, who police say was...

When Jean Paul Gaultier presented his 30th anniversary collection in Paris last fall, he sent out a zaftig model in a skimpy black peignoir and garters. Was the veteran designer...

When the Texans' Domanick Davis cleaned out his locker Monday, he had a rare request. He wanted his name plate and number removed also. The next time the fourth-year running...

Back in the mid-1950s, Col. Tom Parker wanted an outfit that looked "like a million dollars" for an up-and-coming singer he represented named Elvis Presley. Manuel Cuevas, then working for...

Long the most boring gift under the Christmas tree, the tie is getting a luxury makeover this holiday season. Tiemakers, struggling with declining sales since the early 1990s, are proposing...

It's a horrible sight that sticks in Wendell Brown's mind and won't go away. The senior fashion editor at Esquire looked across the room at a party and saw a...

Texas real estate agent Julie Upton has decided to throw down on the competition. Like any salesperson, Upton is always looking for new ways to attract customers. Recently, she struck...

For three decades, Playboy magazine has been recruiting nude models on U.S. college campuses. Sometimes the response is overwhelming, such as at Arizona State University, the University of South Florida,...