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It's one of the great unanswered hypotheticals of the modern age--as profound, in its way, as the question "What if Archduke Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated in 1914?" What if an...

Televised shopping is growing . . . trendy. Gabe Doppelt, former editor in chief of Madamoiselle magazine and now non-music merchandising head of MTV, enlisted some of New York's trendiest...

For millions of American home remodelers and wannabes, Bob Vila is practically a member of the household--at least for the time each week when television viewers are tuned into his...

A congressional witness says Senate investigators violated her right of privacy by reconstructing a personal letter she had erased from a computer disk. The attorneys for witness Jean Lewis have...

Just because a car or truck is old, it isn't necessarily a clunker. That, at least, is the message from the American Automotive Heritage Foundation a non-profit, charitable and tax-exempt...

For people worried about the confidentiality of their medical records, this is a period of high-energy nail-biting. We're far more vulnerable to snoopers today than in the days when there...

The baby carrot is growing up--and may have a bright future. Ten years ago carrots that were cracked, bent or broken were plucked off conveyor belts at California carrot processing...

Unbeaten Florida whipped 'em all: the cold, the polls and the 'Noles. On one unforgettable Saturday afternoon before the largest crowd in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium history (85,711) the No....

Stable, relatively low interest rates are drawing a lot of refinancers into the market. Many homeowners figure if they can knock a hundred dollars or more off their monthly payments,...

Among the sure signs of fall in this post-Industrial Age: falling leaves and falling personal computer prices. In many ways, the holiday shopping season is the best time of year...