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If you're planning a cruise in 2009, three Web sites can be a big help. CRUISECRITIC.COM This site offers reviews boat-by-boat and port-by-port, evaluating cruise lines and itineraries and offering...

Being listed in fourth place for Time magazine's "Person of the Year," as Sarah Palin was for 2008, sounds a little like being awarded the Order of Purity (Fourth Class)....

The platitude of "energy independence" makes zero economic sense. ... The U.S. currently imports some 60 percent of the oil we use. To imagine an energy-independent U.S. today is to...

The holiday season is notoriously stressful for people with drinking problems and eating issues. But times have never been tougher for those diagnosed with a controversial disorder called "compulsive buying,"...

The greatest danger in the current economic crisis is that the United States will lose its historic appetite for risk. The mood now is that risk-taking got us into this...

In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's. Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some...

The credit bubble has burst. The economy is tanking. Investors in the U.S. stock market have lost more than $9 trillion since its peak a year ago. But in industries...

From Madagascar to Costa Rica, farmers, scientists and multinational companies have been racing to deliver an elusive product -- a gourmet coffee bean that's naturally low in caffeine. Coffee companies...

Financial markets are in the tank, and the economy is grinding to halt -- a great time, it turns out, to shop. Shoppers can find a bonanza of deals on...

Some wonder if Barack Obama is a hard leftist or more a pragmatic politician who simply rose in leftist precincts (that would be you, Hyde Park, Chicago). A less charged...