Summer safety tips for kids and teens The Examiner | Keeping kids safe during summer is easier when you plan for summer fun activities. Heat and sun safety is important. However, kids are active outdoors and teens have more free time. This list of summer child safety tips will help parents guard teens and kids during the long summer days. | Water a...
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China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US' BBC News Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. | The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. | Mr Chen recently spe...
After John Travolta lawsuit fizzles, questions about attorney remain The Los Angeles Times It was billed as a "shocking tell-all" and a "world exclusive," but the National Enquirer's March 26 cover story landed with a thud. TMZ, Page Six and other major players in celebrity gossip ignored the article in which a masseuse claimed John Travol...
Insurance Firm Is Set Up for Land Trusts, Which See Legal Costs Soaring The New York Times | NEW LONDON, Conn. — The $4 million estate on the Connecticut River in Lyme had everything: a six-bedroom home, a pool and a dock, all surrounded by 17 acres of native meadows, brush and woodlands. It also had a decades-old conservation restri...
New Hints at Looser Rules on Travel Stir Hope in Cuba The New York Times | HAVANA — From her small, tidy apartment here, Niurka dreams of visiting Miami one day to see her son’s home and the school where he is studying medicine. She also yearns to bid farewell to her late father at his graveside and to meet he...
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Carrots: Secret to Losing Weight? The Examiner | A lot of people I know have dieted at some point in their lives. Perhaps we all should. I mean everyone has a diet, just not one on which to brag. I’d wager to guess ...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | ...
Chinese herbal extract may help curb binge drinking Newstrack India | Washington, May 18 (ANI): An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking. | This i...
Mike McGrady, journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax, dies at 78 The Los Angeles Times | In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleague...
Struggling Racetrack Counts on a New Star The New York Times | VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Last week, jockey Mario Gutierrez was reunited with I’ll Have Another in Baltimore, preparing for the Preakness Stakes, the follow-up to their victory at the Kentucky Derby. | From the paddock to the winner...
Marvel artist draws the Avengers and more in his man cave home in Trinity Tampabay.com | Bill StevensTampa Bay Times In Print: Sunday, May 20, 2012 ADVERTISEMENT | ADVERTISEMENT | Story Tools Print this story Purchase reprints Contact the editor Email Newsletters | Shelbi Land bounced up the stairs to her dad's office, a true man cave ...
Bobby Brown says his new album represents healing Austin American Statesman | NEW YORK — Bobby Brown says it took him a long time to come out with a new album because he's spent so much time trying to get his life on track. | Now on tour with bandmates New Edition, Brown says he's ready to return to his solo career with the album "Masterpiece," due out June 5. | It's his first album in 25 years. | Brown calls the alb...
