Knight-Ridder Tribune

Let`s cut-no, make that hack-right to the heart of the matter: Cooking is a blood sport. You`d never know it to look at a delicate souffle or a tender little...

Because of efforts to put the U.S. on the metric system, you may eventually have to order all new typing, photocopying and fax paper. The old reliable size we`ve all...

During the Bush administration, the quarterly meetings of the National Council on the Arts were often the stuff of drama. Protests erupted in the bland, fluorescent-lit room at the Old...

An age-old grain is migrating from health-food stores to grocery store shelves. Some are even calling it the super grain of the future. That`s ironic, considering that quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah)...

While teenagers fantasize about it and yuppies analyze it, grandma and grandpa just do it-once a week, on average. Those who don`t ''quit having sex for the same reasons they...

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to override states, particularly New York, that are setting more restrictive limits than the federal government for the amount of oxygen that must be...

After three weeks in the Saudi desert without a shower, soldier Tiffin Woody desperately wanted to bathe. Woody had seen the guys string up a blanket for privacy when they...

Here, courtesy of the Associated Press, are some statistics to ponder as you contemplate family values and the state of the union: Number of counselors in the American Counseling Association...

Don`t start worrying yet, but an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is predicting that comet Swift-Tuttle could strike the Earth in the year 2126. Such a collision, Brian...

Even if you don`t have any skeletons in the family closet, you may have an embarrassing mess-hats, coats, tennis rackets and the like-and you`ve been promising yourself to put it...