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Alyia D'Ambrosio, age 5, tied a rubber tourniquet on her patient's arm and searched for a vein. "Got it!" She inserted a needle for an IV -- a real needle...

In ancient Greece, the original Olympic games were a no-tech event. Athletes competed in the nude in sports such as running and wrestling, and there was no such thing as...

Whenever Steve Seagal, Wesley Snipes and Jean-Claude Van Damme are around, you can expect plenty of blazing bullets and plenty of flying bodies. They are just three of the stars...

College students, often bombarded with tempting offers to apply for credit cards, are using credit to pay tuition, books, meals and transportation. Consider these findings from a recent survey by...

Sylvia Fowles never imagined as she practiced silky post moves on Liberty City's asphalt courts in Miami that she'd one day find herself halfway around the world at the Olympics,...

Q: My 21-year-old daughter, "Kelly," has worked in a small retail store for several months. She recently spotted a shoplifter trying to steal a pair of shoes by wearing them...

During the years Michael Davis spent panhandling in Palo Alto, Calif., his nickname was "3850." Every day before he bought so much as a soda, he would try and find...

When it comes to viewing the Summer Olympics on TV, take this professional advice: Don't even think about trying to watch all 3,600 hours of coverage being offered by NBC...

Big trees, especially shallow-rooted ones like some maples, cast dense shade, making it difficult to impossible for grass to survive underneath. The trees' roots also soak up most of the...

Q: I'm not sure if this has anything to do with energy, but we're running out of people to help us. When we bought this house last summer, we had...