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Stephanie Sandleben, a yoga instructor with tattoos on each shoulder, just finished Chapter 19 of Tina Brown's biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Sara Nolan, a 28-year-old graduate student, is...

Even the most fabulous, high-flying lives hit pockets of dead air, periods when the sails go slack. Movie stars get marooned in DMV lines. Prime ministers sit with frozen smiles...

The plaza in front of Baghdad's famous Abu Hanifa mosque in the Adhamiyah district has lately been a place of joyous celebration and worship. On Sunday evening it was a...

C. Lester Hogan, a pioneer in the electronics industry whose departure in 1968 from his job as a top executive at Motorola to one at Fairchild led to a celebrated...

Methadone, once used mainly in addiction treatment centers to replace heroin, is being given out by family doctors, osteopaths and nurse practitioners for throbbing backs, joint injuries and other severe...

Breast-fed kids handle stress better British researchers have discovered another benefit of breast-feeding: Children who are breast-fed seem to cope with stress and anxiety more effectively when they reach school...

Last year Nikki Frahm, operations manager at Carlson Wagonlit Travel in Forest Lake, Minn., arranged a February vacation for a family of four to Ixtapa, Mexico. They enjoyed the trip...

Dropping her opposition to a vote on coastal oil exploration, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that the House would consider expanded offshore drilling as part of broad energy legislation when...

Let's face it, carpeted kitty condos, the ones with the stairs, ramps, scratching posts and cubby holes, have all the aesthetic appeal of tires hanging from ropes at a primate...

When it comes to household repairs, you win some, you lose some. The Mighty Putty epoxy stick successfully fixed one item around my house but left another wobbly and unusable....