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Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's striking writers and production companies have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, which could lead to a tentative deal as early as...

When Evan Gotlib and his fiancee, Lindsey Pollack, bought a three-bedroom cottage surrounded by pine trees in rural Sharon, Conn., they couldn't wait to flee their cramped Manhattan studio to...

Dr. David A. Stoker, a plastic surgeon in Marina Del Rey, Calif., has a surgical cure for the ravages of motherhood. He, like many plastic surgeons nationwide, calls it a...

There are designers who proudly haunt thrift shops and tag sales, but Thomas Hays, an investment banker turned interior designer who has just redone a boutique hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco,...

In between being a Hollywood stuntman, a NASCAR driver, a carpenter on HGTV's "Designed To Sell" and the host of the show "Hammer Heads," also on HGTV, Steve Hanneman learned...

Talk about an uh-oh moment. It was late October, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, had received just three months earlier a $12 million investment...

The quilt world is in the throes of a digital revolution with professor Michael James leading the charge. James, of Lincoln, Neb., has mastered the art of digital imagery. This...

The Chadian army waged fierce battles Friday against rebel troops who were headed for the country's capital, Ndjamena, where they are seeking to force the country's president, Idriss Deby Itno,...

A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer...

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west...