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Flaming Star of David! The international icon of pop culture is hanging out in the mountains outside of Jerusalem, greeting visitors to Israel wearing a cowboy hat and sitting atop...

If the Toronto Blue Jays hold on to win their fifth American League East title in nine years-and history is on their side-nobody will be able to say they backed...

In 1941, 5-year-old Terry Johnson made a discovery. While he was helping his father run a small filling station in Rockford, a new Cadillac pulled up to the pumps. "My...

A sense of humor, flashes of honesty and rousing film careers are some of the things that Ellen Barkin and husband Gabriel Byrne have in common. But what they don't...

Jan Weber of Evansville, Ind., could cite long lists of statistics to persuade youngsters to wear helmets when they ride their bicycles, but she thinks fruit and candy are more...

Singer Regina Belle has just turned 30 and it doesn't bother her at all. "Twenty-five got me," says Belle. "I wasn't really sad about turning 25. I felt blessed, but...

It took a gentle farmer named Lasse-and a best-actor Academy Award nomination-to remind American casting directors that Max Von Sydow could play someone other than a bad guy. Lasse, central...

Actress Kim Basinger likes to think that standing up for the things that you believe in helps to make you strong. Basinger, 39, rattled some cages when she and some...

Stephen Schramm and Erica Munson stunned their bosses at Arthur Andersen & Co.'s Denver office last December with a joint declaration of independence. At a tense meeting, the two junior...

Before using your toothbrush, stop to consider where it has been, its age, how it has been stored, and what may be growing invisibly on its bristles. This humble implement-the...