Knight-Ridder Tribune

Many pesticides are toxic and will kill not only the bad bugs, but the good ones as well. Greenpeace recommends promoting beneficial pests such as ladybugs, bees, fly larvae, aphid...

The power miter saw, one of the most useful new tools in years, recently became available in an improved version that cuts wider boards. Occasional do-it-yourselfers can get along with...

Chester and Bevilee Hicks have been in sales since they graduated from college, selling mostly consumer products and medical supplies. So when Terry Deboise, Bevilee`s brother-in-law, came up with the...

Roberta Flack had a great idea for her new album-a record filled with her performances of Nat King Cole songs. She still thought it was a terrific idea as she...

Dick Jones was little Dickie Jones when he and his mother went to lunch with Walt Disney in 1939. The 11-year-old had been one of 200 child actors that Disney...

A gas grill is basically a simple device, but grills can and do get balky and fail to perform properly, usually at the worst times. A breakdown is much less...

Two cop thrillers, two sets of images. Each as savage and familiar as the recent paroxysms of violence played out on the nightly news. ''One False Move,'' a low-budget independent...

Baseball is a game of percentages. Earned-run average, batting average, on-base percentage. The Book-by which most managers make or don`t make decisions-is built on calculations. Little Leaguers know this. So...

The 100-yard heron was lifting off again. That was about as close as he was going to let us get. We would come paddling around a bend in the Bigfork...

A long trip can affect you in unexpected ways. The oddest urge I had after two months in Southeast Asia was to clean out my closets. Then buy a palette...