Everyone knows broccoli as a good staple vegetable, but how about taking the flavor one step further? It can be the highlight of a savory sauce, backed up with a...
When fellow golfers on the Senior PGA Tour call Jim Colbert the "Magnet Man," they're not referring to his magnetic personality. They're talking about the two silver-dollar-size magnets strapped to...
As you walk by it or through it, you would never guess that the two-story colonial home in this western Detroit suburb is anything but a run-of-the mill house in...
Led by President Clinton and the Pentagon's top military leaders, the nation said goodbye Tuesday to Adm. Jeremy Boorda, the chief of naval operations who took his life last week...
Here's a new answer to an old riddle: How are politicians like monkeys? Brain researchers are finding that when dominant monkeys appear before their noisy and attentive followers, something goes...
Safety can be cheap--especially considering the alternative. For a small investment of money, skill and time, these home improvements will go a long way toward making 1996 a safe year....
Where do hard-core statisticians go to gauge the nation's cultural, political and moral pulse? To the 1995 Pizza Meter, of course. Domino's Pizza has again published the results of its...
`ER's" Yvette Freeman owes her success to a smoking Pinto. While auditioning for the part of nurse Haleh Adams, Freeman knew that her ailing '79 Pinto was billowing smoke throughout...
`Visitors of the Night," NBC's Monday night movie (8 p.m. on WMAQ-Ch.5), is about a woman, played by Markie Post, who's suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. That's because she was...
In a sharp split with American aviation regulators, the Environmental Protection Agency is endorsing a steep reduction in jet engine emissions worldwide. The EPA's call for tougher standards on nitrous...