The Philadelphia Inquirer

Coming clean: Thirteen percent of the respondents to a survey said they would rather go to the dentist than clean house. Another nine percent responded that they would rather visit...

Home alone: Forget the bachelor flat. Single young consumers are forgoing rent and going straight to mortgages. By next year, the traditional home buyer--a married couple with two children--will make...

Easy does it: Sunset Books of Menlo Park, Calif., has come up with 14 "fix-it maps"' that provide easy instructions for simple home repairs and do-it-yourself jobs. The laminated fix-it...

The toilet had been running for so long that I either had to repair it or enter it in a 5K race. Actually, it had been running for a few...

Say you buy a toaster and use it every morning but never clean it. Then, a year down the road, right after the manufacturer's warranty expires, a thick slice of...

Move over, sake. The Japanese, encouraged by affordable foreign brands and reports of health benefits, are drinking imported wine in record amounts. Wine imports more than doubled last year to...

Michio Kaku is known for keeping his eye on the future. When he looks at what's ahead in technology, he talks with great vigor of quantum computers, DNA computers, molecular...

Dig this: Toss out the old shovel and rake. Among the newest gardening products unveiled at the recent National Hardware Show is the Garden Weasel "Gold Digger"--a single tool with...

There is little that annoys airline travelers more these days than the diminishing amount of legroom they get. In recent years, most airlines have devoted lots of resources to increasing...

More of you are taking coffee breaks. Surveyed by the National Coffee Association, 48.5 percent of U.S. consumers, or 114 million people, identified themselves as coffee drinkers. That's up from...