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With his eyes fixed on the open river ahead, John Briley signals to fire up the boilers. A bell rings out from the steamboat's lower deck as he pulls the...

The Olympic seasons have become blurred for Johann Olav Koss, a man who made his name on a pair of skates but whose commitment to the Games now stretches beyond...

Beds in winter are stripped of their leafy camouflage. Nothing but the garden's bare bones poke through the snow. And if you've just moved into a brand-new house, your property...

Timothy Leary is dying. In fact, by the time you read this, he may be dead. At the start of the year he was told he had terminal prostate cancer...

Are you revolted by the smell of coffee, nauseated by the sight of your favorite breakfast burrito, woozy at the thought of swallowing spinach? Congratulations! You're probably pregnant and suffering...

Tired of all your old Christmas discs? This year there is a whole sleigh-load of new collections in stores. Here's a roundup by music genre: Traditional To steal the promo...

I used to be skeptical about the connection between eating disorders and thin role-models such as Kate Moss. If a child is going to have a psychiatric breakdown, this has...

The sky is laced with "air highways" that curve less than a country road, but do zig and zag. A flight from Kentucky to Baltimore, for example, dips south to...

In Eagle River, Wis., waking up on a mid-October morning to find 5 inches of snow on the ground isn't an omen but a cause for celebration. "We get excited,"...

This year's Christmas present for borrowers is falling interest rates. Even though everyone from banks to money market mutual funds pays less in interest, savers shouldn't feel they're getting a...