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Thinking about Champagne cocktails? The classic French 75 mixes gin, lemon juice, sugar and Champagne: a sort of Gin Fizz topped with sparkling wine. Champagne works best here, but a...

Margaret Bush Wilson, 90, the first African-American woman to chair the national NAACP board of directors, and who was ousted in 1983 after a public feud with its executive director,...

Mike Seeger, 75, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Aug....

Anne Wexler, a well-connected political power broker who founded the first major Washington lobbying firm to be led by a woman, and who was considered one of the capital's most...

Thomas N. Schroth, an executive editor of Congressional Quarterly during its early years and the founding editor of National Journal, died July 23 of congestive heart failure at his home...

Most women know the importance of breast self-exams and regular medical checkups in detecting potentially cancerous lumps. But how many know how to spot the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer,...

Hangovers are sort of like opinions. Every drinker ends up having one at some point, and nearly everyone feels the need to share its story, even if the story is...

Actor Hugh Dancy seems to be on the verge of Colin Firth-ery. With his curly brown locks, Brit accent and leading-man repertoire, the 34-year-old may well be the next eloquent...

George Taylor Morris, formerly the daily morning host on XM Satellite Radio's "Deep Tracks" classic rock channel and the primary host of the company's interview program, "XM Artist Confidential," died...

Gerald H.F. Gardner, a geophysicist and mathematician whose statistical research and expert testimony led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that eliminated sex bias in newspaper want ads, died July...