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When considering a fitness club, don't be dazzled by the high-tech equipment, muscular instructors or seductive promises. Keep your eye on the contract. Fitness clubs are increasingly popular with those...

Ask a kid on the street about Cypress Hill and maybe he'll talk about the group's funky, whacked-out hip hop, its near-double platinum record "Black Sunday" or its crossover recordings...

If it hurts, modify the activity or don't do it. What's more, let them eat cake . . . occasionally. That advice comes from Kathy Alexander, an exercise physiologist and...

In department and specialty stores, the trees have been trimmed for this year's holiday season. And whether you visualize a Christmas tree to echo the latest trends or prefer to...

When shopping for the cat-or the cat lover-on your holiday list this year, keep a few rules in mind: - Cats do not dress up in cute little outfits. You...

Jesse Yarbrough, 15, and his friend, Micah McCullough, 14, are tuned in to the latest electronic gizmos. Although they are in that awkward stage-too young to drive but too old...

Although the growing season is over, it's a prime time to use leaves and some garden residue for another type of growing. In fields and forests, nature does her recycling...

When Joy and Robert Habenicht of Boulder, Colo., vacationed in Washington State earlier this year, they paid $20 a night for lodging. And they weren't staying in fleabag motels. They...

The most popular wall treatment, besides paint, is wallpaper. It's a choice that offers a number of options and can require some planning to select the finish best suited for...

He was raised in a mainline Protestant home, the loyal son of a free-thinking father who didn't believe in hell. He says televangelists are "potentially dangerous," shuns Bible-thumpers and gets...