Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Say a publishing company announces that it plans to release 25 books issued during a 12 1/2 -year period to celebrate one artist's 50-year career. Who, would you suppose, would...

Few electronics sales have been sealed on the head of a zit. But that's precisely what it finally took to convince this television consumer she needed HDTV. Specifically, the eruption...

As a high school history teacher in San Francisco, Mike Holmgren learned to tolerate the inevitability that some students are bound to get out of hand and disrupt the class....

Lawrence Paros considers himself the lone crusader of the cuss word. Those with certain puritanical dispositions might have other names for him, like, say, "dirty old man." But that would...

Humor tends to be culturally specific, but unlike other barriers, it can translate well enough with a little work around the edges. This idea, anyway, is driving British television companies...

The irony in the trade of Jeff Nelson for Armando Benitez is so sweet that we should all be able to skip dessert for a month. But even if Nelson's...

When she was 16, Ariel Gore dropped out of high school with $2,000 in savings and trekked through Asia and Europe. She slept on the streets, did drugs, hooked up...

Life is a gamble. More so for some people than for others. For a guy like Rick Neuheisel, the exposure-- both to high reward and to numbing loss--has seemed especially...

Call it the "Lizzie McGuire" effect. The Disney Channel's dream tween has so many fans that other cable channels are shoring up their programming. Not that Lizzie cares, because "The...

Deep in their hearts, do fathers really prefer boys to girls? New research just published by two University of Washington economists suggests that may be the case--or perhaps that mothers...