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You spend a third of your life with your head on a pillow. Learn something about that bag of fiber, foam or feathers that cradles your skull all night. Too...

Carole Caldwell Graebner, a top-ranked women's doubles player and tireless supporter of the Fed Cup, an international tennis competition that she and longtime friend Billie Jean King helped inaugurate in...

In this Himalayan hill town, where Tibetan prayer flags flutter and red-robed monks study Buddha's call for forbearance, talk is brewing of kicking off the world's next separatist movement. Posters...

Donald Finkel, an American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions that helped illuminate the function of poetry itself, died on Nov. 15 at his home in St. Louis. He...

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, currently touring the country with his solo project the Nightwatchman (and in town Saturday with the equally fiery Steve Earle), is well aware...

The cost of heating a home is expected to be higher than ever this winter, so this is a good time to batten down the hatches by caulking, sealing and...

Good news for worried parents: All those hours teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study to be released Thursday by the...

Grace Hartigan, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture, leading some critics to see in them prefigurings of Pop Art, has...

For all the talk about how boring turkey is, it can be quite rewarding when handled properly. But roasting a whole bird is among the least "proper" methods. If the...

The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reportedly is dismissing Iraqi oversight officials who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the U.S. occupation administration. The...