Knight-Ridder Tribune

Picture a long-haul trucker. Maybe he's sitting in a truck stop off an interstate, drawing on a Marlboro and drinking some muddy black coffee. And listening to Patsy Cline. Then...

Haydee Marin, an activist in Miami's Nicaraguan community, recently had a quick pizza lunch with a male friend. The check was less than $10, and the place wouldn't take the...

The red sign outside the Toledo Museum of Art reads "The Age of Rubens ... An Extraordinary Exhibition." And that is so. This is a show of virtuosity, of sublime...

New Zealand took painstaking measures to produce the $20 definitive-its highest value stamp ever-which was issued Friday. "We believe that on all fronts the new $20 stamp is a masterpiece...

So what's a luxury-loving traveler to do? Like a turtle, you can carry your accommodations with you: cruise to intriguing places and let the ship be your hotel. On shore...

Historian David Levering Lewis says that if W.E.B. Du Bois were alive today, the controversial sociologist and activist would "stand before us and say, `I told you so.' " Du...

If low interest rates prompted you to refinance your home last year, you were in good company. More than 34,000 Dallas County homeowners chose to refinance their mortgages in 1993....

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found an unexpected signpost pointing to a physical cause for premenstrual syndrome. Psychiatric researchers compared the reactions to stress...

Every day, many Americans are carrying around evidence of an international trade conspiracy that is threatening millions of jobs, government investigators say. It's printed on small tags tucked in trousers,...

They were bred big not to pull manure spreaders but to carry medieval knights into battle. The biggest stand over 6 feet tall at the shoulder, have hooves up to...