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They didn't line up the "Chicago Hope" actors and shoot them at the end of last season, perhaps because it would have been a shame to waste perfectly good ammo...

Tom Walton and Debby Fortune were having dinner at Cafe Beaujolais in Mendocino when Walton, in timeless spousal tradition, snitched a scallop from his wife's plate. Two minutes later, he...

In case you weren't confused enough about what the government wants you to eat, note that a new version of the mother of all federal food guidelines comes your way...

Just a few years into the World Wide Web's existence, advertising expenditures on the Internet have surpassed spending on outdoor ads, an old-as-the-hills medium that includes billboards and taxi tops....

Backers of Internet2--a faster, more powerful sequel to the Internet--are launching the on-line system nationwide this week. A coalition of universities and high-tech companies said a key technological piece of...

Some of TV's best shows ever died young and left handsome corpses. They make up our list of all-time top flops -- shows that were canceled too soon but buried...

There's a great "Seinfeld" scene in which George, after fretting that he has become impotent, rediscovers his manhood and shouts, for all the world to hear, "I'm back, baby!" That...

They're falling fatally and disturbingly fast. Roy Rogers, Buffalo Bob Smith, Shari Lewis -- all representing the last time the world made sense to the Baby Boom generation. Even Robert...

"The Simpsons" perks along merrily to the delight of Fox and the show's creator, Matt Groening, who can see "no end in sight." "King of the Hill" is an established...

The rational mind would dismiss it as a "Baywatch" promotional event at San Jose State University, and a small and chintzy one at that. But one person's gaseous promo event...