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Life couldn't be cushier than it is these days for Robert Vaughn, once "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and now a caricature of a reality-show host. Vaughn made his debut as...

Let the buyer beware: Convenience is costly. "Prepackaged and precut foods can cost 50 to 100 percent more than bulk and whole items," says Sharon King, editor of The Penny...

Good news for millions of youngsters who suffer painful middle-ear infections: Researchers have discovered that one injection of the antibiotic Ceftriaxone is just as effective for middle-ear aches as the...

Barney must have a tough purple hide, or else public TV's perky prehistoric playmate would have turned black and blue after the beating he has taken from big people lately....

Major appliances are a costly proposition. Knowing which features to look for and how to make the appliances you own more energy-efficient can net considerable savings in the long run....

Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, a star in the Cabinet, is engaged in a fast-paced series of public appearances on behalf of administration goals. Reno, possibly the most popular Clinton nominee,...

A box deemed suspicious at the California State Automobile Association claims office here was blown up Wednesday by a police bomb squad. "This was a first, finding money," said platoon...

The famous investor Bernard Baruch once said: "Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done, except by liars." The most common fear...

The Belgrade Zoo is looking for someone to go on display in a furnished, glass-fronted cage for 12 hours a day as a representative of the "threatened species," homo sapiens....

A new method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders has been discovered by researchers in Pasadena, Calif. Using medical scanners that measure brain chemicals, physicians at Huntington Medical...