St. Louis Post-Dispatch

North is north, and south is south, and never the twain shall meet-at least not when north and south are the two ends of Padre Island, Texas, a 115- mile...

Norfolk Southern Corp. is trying to make the use of truck trailers on flatbed rail cars obsolete. The Virginia-based holding company has abandoned its traditional ''piggyback'' service because it was...

Innovation is the new buzzword in the tradition-bound brewing industry. In the past, brewers have stuck by their flagship brands with a ferocious loyalty unequaled in the consumer products industry....

Hurricane Hugo was bad enough, lament the folks in golf-crazy Myrtle Beach, but the San Francisco earthquake really put them in the rough. ''Sure, we were scared out of our...

Just eight years ago, only 36 men could be mustered for a national meeting of bankruptcy lawyers at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Over drinks and hors d`oeuvres, they chatted...

Grown-ups who have to provide food and shelter for themselves, their children and sometimes their own parents, too, should not have to deal with acne. Somewhere between pimple cream and...

Puerto Rico has long been a favorite Caribbean destination for families, but most visitors never venture beyond San Juan, with its gorgeous beaches, deluxe hotels, world-class casinos and endless night...

The owners of an electronics fix-it shop say they`ve found all types of foreign objects stuck inside videocassette recorders brought in for repair, but the 3-foot-long boa constrictor was definitely...

On the high road between Santa Fe and Taos is a tiny community where a dusty quiet settles in around sunset and the day`s unrelenting blue skies give way to...

Walt Disney World, with its Magic Kingdom and Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), gets a lot of ink and film-and rightly so. It`s imaginative, visually exciting, intellectually stimulating and...