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Steve Kieley doesn't have to worry about where to put his guests in the summertime. He's entertained up to 100 in his back yard. No, it's not a yard the...

Excuse me, sir. Would you like some hot buttered popcorn with that floppy disk? Like the rest of America, Hollywood has discovered that cyberspace is the hot place to be....

Looking for more than pineapple to grill for dessert this summer? How about barbecued bananas? From the "Good Eating, Good Health Cookbook," here's how: Cook 4 unpeeled bananas on the...

A bomb similar in size and force to the one that killed 167 people in Oklahoma City last April will be detonated at Kirtland Air Force Base next month. The...

A refreshing glass of iced tea might make you sick if not brewed properly. The Cincinnati Health Department issued a "tea preparation advisory" last week after studies at 20 local...

Federal auditors studying why Medicare's home health-care costs rose $5 billion over four years have found many apparently improperly billed expenses, including large liquor bills for health executives, $1 million...

Splitting By Fay Weldon Atlantic Monthly Press, 246 pages, $21 At the beginning of "Splitting," Fay Weldon's 20th novel, her heroine, Angelica, is the oddly naive teenage leader of a...

The government offers lots of food-related brochures free or at low cost. All can be obtained by requesting the title and department number from: Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, Colo. 81009....

Cybill Shepherd walked into a Mexican buffet lunch CBS held for TV critics wearing an ankle-length red dress with a white floral print, a straw sunhat with a black ribbon...

Unlike mad dogs and Englishmen, dedicated gardeners don't necessarily have to enjoy the midday sun. But they can't completely avoid it. "Plants and weeds don't stop growing in the heat,"...