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Have you thought about your refrigerator's condenser coils lately? Spent any time with your dryer hoses this week? The answer is likely no, since we tend to think about these...

Dick Sutcliffe, whose idea to use animated characters to teach religious principles resulted in the cartoon show "Davey and Goliath," died May 11 in Dallas, where he lived. He was...

Is it still possible to find cheap airfares? With prices rising -- the average cost of a domestic airline ticket was up 10.2 percent in March, compared with a year...

I used to give the worst get-togethers. I was a jittery mess, the sort of person who leapt to refill a glass and filled any conversational lull with nervous chatter....

Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York after a long and distinguished career as a photojournalist, first on the staff of Life magazine then as...

Italy announced Thursday that within five years it plans to resume building nuclear energy plants, two decades after a public referendum resoundingly banned nuclear power and deactivated all its reactors....

Uwe Boll is often referred to as the worst filmmaker in the world. This seems to pain Boll, a gregarious 42-year-old German whose latest, "Postal," opens Friday. So he has...

Willis Lamb Jr., who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a slight and subtle discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the...

In 2002, as evidence of prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay began to mount, FBI agents at the base created a "war crimes file" to document accusations against American military personnel...

The Dalai Lama arrived in London on Tuesday as part of a protracted foreign tour, highlighting efforts by European governments to balance China's hostility toward him against their support for...