(Feb. 1) – When Christian Jahn, a 37-year-old graduate student, was 13, he wouldn’t leave the house without wearing a heavy Arctic jacket. In Southern California, that was enough to set him apart. But Christian was obsessed with what he deemed an even more troubling physical anomaly: He was terrified of his own face. Over […]
Don’t you just love how everybody sees things differently? I wondered after hearing that James Cameron’s blockbuster “Avatar” has been rewarded for its creative and technical brilliance with nine Oscar nominations — after receiving heaping doses of a less-obvious “reward” that also puts butts into movie seats: Controversy. As Oscar hype tempts the handful of […]
LAS VEGAS (Feb. 2) — Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who last month apologized for privately praising President Barack Obama’s lack of a “Negro dialect,” posted a Black History Month essay on his Web site Monday in which he takes credit for racial integration in Las Vegas. One problem: Some local black leaders and historians don’t […]
When you think of Black History Month your mind often turns to tradition.
Milk from nursing mothers in Ohio and around the country is on its way to nourish sick babies in earthquake-ravished Haiti.
President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address to confront Americans' widely felt economic uncertainty, but also the increasingly pervasive doubts among voters about his ability to enact the changes he promised as a candidate and newly elected leader.
It's easy to get sucked into buying a product based on what its label says -- after all, that's what the label's designed to do. And some of those label claims are regulated by the U.S. or monitored by the industry, and they actually mean something.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Jan. 27) -- A German man who stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison in New Zealand for plundering the country's protected species.
Guests who don’t want to hop into a cold bed at one English hotel now have a novel way to warm up: by enlisting a staff member to do it for them.
I had a dream last night that led me to think about how we relate to those we’ve been romantically involved in after we’re no longer involved with them and how should our friends respect the relationship that once was.