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As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up. Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy...

Probiotics, the potentially beneficial bacteria and yeasts available as diet supplements and in some foods, may not be as helpful as widely believed. A new study suggests that under certain...

Dozens of far-right Israeli nationalists on Sunday evening threw stones and scuffled with police in and around the Jerusalem neighborhood that is home to the family of the Palestinian gunman...

Since he helped create Wikipedia in 2001, Jimmy Wales has been called many things, among them benevolent dictator and constitutional monarch. Unfortunately for him, the news media love a good...

For decades this speck of a place called Bill had one, two or five residents, depending on whether you counted pets. But recent developments have increased the population to at...

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...

When actors Alysia Reiner and David Alan Basche embarked on a renovation of their four-story, 5,000-square-foot row house in Harlem two years ago, they did not intend for it to...

The Central Intelligence Agency secretly detained an Al Qaeda suspect for at least six months beginning last summer as part of a program in which CIA officers have been authorized...

Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated in the first interracial collegiate debate in...

For years, William Zammer Jr. has relied on 100 seasonal foreign employees to turn down beds, boil lobsters and serve cocktails at the restaurants, golf course and inn he owns...