The Philadelphia Inquirer

In this mostly Hindu, tradition-steeped land with little taste for beef, what is one of the hottest eateries around? McDonald's. On any given night, this city's blue jean-clad hip jostle...

Linoleum, a popular flooring material for more than 100 years, dropped out of fashion for residential use in the mid-1970s. But new processes have made linoleum more durable. The flooring's...

`We're out here trying to change people's perceptions of cruising," said Rob Wheatley, a thirtysomething cruise director for Celebrity Cruises Inc., who was making the rounds to tout cruising to...

A mammogram showed the underarm lump was a cancerous tumor. When she first felt the tenderness under her arm, Kim Petraglia thought maybe she'd pushed herself too hard, maybe she'd...

Is it any wonder that religion feels more at home with poetry than science? In his poem about enlightenment, the Zen poet Kukai speaks of the "singing image of fire."...

Fact: Men and women TV viewers enjoy watching Olympic figure skaters. Here's my theory: Women love ice skating because it's so swooningly romantic, a dramatic enactment of the idealistic possibility...

Rehabilitation engineer Michael G. Fiore suited up for battle. The familiar beeps of Pong, the classic computer table-tennis game, started to sound as he moved the paddle up and down,...

Cooked eggs are a perfect choice for breakfast. And for a special occasion, omelets are easy and oh, so refined. They can be filled to suit any taste. A few...

That was three years ago. The pets were considered too sick to derive much benefit, but their reactions would show whether the therapy, called TALL-104, had toxic side effects. If...

Not too long ago, much of the Internet industry didn't even consider America Online, or its millions of subscribers, part of their fraternity. There were predictions that it would die...