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Shannon Hayes makes her own soap, composts her garbage and plans to home-school her unvaccinated daughters, who have grown huge and pink-cheeked on unpasteurized milk from the cow Hayes milks...

Sure, traveling alone can be an extremely freeing experience, with no one else to slow you down or bicker with over which sights to see along the way. But it...

The last time James Galway, "the man with the golden flute," performed as a featured soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (indoors, as opposed to the Hollywood Bowl) was way...

'Alien vs. Predator: Requiem' ** The second "Alien vs. Predator" film is, like its predecessor, one very dark movie. Not psychologically dark; dark dark, as in, not very generously lighted....

Another insurer plans to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening. Aetna, one of the nation's largest private health-plan...

As his wedding day approached last spring, Marshall Whittey found that his money could not keep pace with the grandiosity of his plans. But rather than scale back, he chose...

As contemporary art often does, the giant crack in the floor at the Tate Modern inspires different responses from different people. Some might agree with the Tate that the work,...

When Rena Wilson Jones and her husband, Drew, were building a house 10 years ago in a subdivision near the edge of Urbana, they knew the property was likely to...

Child malnutrition rates have increased sharply in Darfur, even though it is home to the world's largest aid operation, according to a new UN report. The report showed that 16.1...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that employers could reduce or eliminate health benefits for retirees when they turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare. The policy, set in...