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When the bills started piling up and the banks wouldn't lend, the white-haired art dealer in the elegant tweed jacket said he drove to the outskirts of Rome and knocked...

One of the stories Augustus Palmer loved to tell about his exploits as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering black fighter pilots of World War II, involved an...

In the British popular imagination, the global financial crisis now has a name, and it is Fred. As in Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland,...

William Jorden, a former New York Times reporter who later served as U.S. ambassador to Panama and who wrote a definitive account of the 1978 Panama Canal treaty negotiations, has...

Your wedding photos are just about the only thing -- besides your marriage itself, hopefully -- that lasts beyond your wedding day. In this economic climate, dropping $6,000 on a...

With its mud-walled houses and narrow lanes, Chehel Gazi looked like a hundred other dusty villages that Paula Loyd had visited in southern Afghanistan over the years. She greeted villagers...

OK, so: kissing. Here's what we know. It has major evolutionary advantage. Only the hottest and highest species do it. Yet among current humans, the future of kissing seems an...

It's easy to just toss on whatever black-and-white get-up the tux rental salesman offers, but why be one more identical penguin in a rookery of thousands? It may be a...

When it's very hot or cold outside, your house has to work hard to make that air the perfect temperature for indoors. But if it were 55 degrees year-round, heating...

If you've lost interest in lifting dumbbells and strapping on weights, consider what a London fitness center is doing. Last month, Gymbox added human weights, which allow exercisers to pump,...