Scripps Howard News Service

Shopping bags full, wallets and patience exhausted by the push, shove and interminable angst over 1997, inhabitants of Hong Kong start their periodical retreats from the city at Shun Tak...

Former Marine Mike Ladich is amazed that he and three members of his Iwo Jima assault squad are still alive. "I didn't expect to walk off Iwo, didn't expect to...

As far as upholstery fabrics are concerned, things have never been better. Anything goes. Should it be dressy or casual, sloppy or pristine, the look is up to you. It's...

They weren't runaway victories, but Thursday was a banner day for Chevrolet at Daytona International Speedway. Defending Daytona 500 champion Sterling Marlin and Dale Earnhardt drove new Monte Carlos to...

The way Barry Corbin sees it, his turf is threatened by the processes of a corporate giant. And much like Maurice Minnifield, the high roller and former astronaut Corbin plays...

There are many ways to make positive changes in your diet, says Sara Parks, president of the American Dietetic Association: - If your favorite foods are high in fat, calories...

Saint-Exupery: A Biography By Stacy Schiff Knopf, 525 pages, $30 `Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to...

Congress is being asked to repeal a 65-year-old federal program that regulates the shipment and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables. Wearied by infighting among farmers, shippers and retail stores,...

What's hot and what's not in interior design these days? - Colorful walls are hot; plain vanilla walls are not. Accenting one wall in the room with bright, cheerful color...

Landscaping and vegetables are not mutually exclusive. Tastefully done, a gardener can have his landscape and eat it too. Unfortunately, an unwritten code of conduct seems to exist among gardeners...