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Last year perhaps you went through the hassle to refinance and were rewarded with a very good rate on a 15-year mortgage-8.3 percent and no points. But now, perusing the...

Will the hiker of the future be able to spray on a little "rattlesnake repellent" to ensure a fang-free trek? Well, if it works for mosquitoes, why not snakes? That's...

Tommy Doss developed a talent for disguising his voice when bill collectors called. Getting loans was easy, the former Jackson (Miss.) State football player discovered after he graduated with a...

Pillows are a fun, easy way to add comfort, color and panache to almost any room. But as they pile up, so does the cost. After a while cushion collectors...

You're Dale Brown. It's 1989. You have three young stars named Chris Jackson, Shaquille O'Neal and Stanley Roberts. You think about 1992. You dream about winning it all, about a...

Great Lakes Insulspan Inc.'s, building construction system is so efficient, the container it's shipped in becomes the walls and the roof of the finished product. Insulspan has taken an old...

In 1800 if a man had a pounding headache from plowing fields in the hot sun, he took salicum - a natural remedy, made from the bark of the white...

Read this statement by author Jane O'Reilly from an essay in the current issue of "Media Studies Journal": "When I watch the pale males I feel I am seeing imminent...

When Sam Malone and Diane Chambers almost married on television's "Cheers," one of their major prenuptial disagreements erupted over art. Sam insisted his mural-size picture of dogs drinking beer and...

The nation's new junior high mathematics champion is Carleton Bosley, a 14-year-old 8th grader from Topeka, Kan., who likes "Star Trek" and hopes to become a computer programmer. Carleton won...