Watching you itch makes me itchy
You know how seeing someone scratching an itch makes you feel itchy too? That's perfectly normal, a new study says, especially for those who tend to be on the neurotic...
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Watching you itch makes me itchy
You know how seeing someone scratching an itch makes you feel itchy too? That's perfectly normal, a new study says, especially for those who tend to be on the neurotic...
The Times Square vortex
NEW YORK — On a walking tour of Times Square, something supercalifragilisticexpialidocious happened. With the guide at my side, I was strolling along the streets without causing any casualties. No...
Historical sound effects depicted in ‘Lincoln’
If you are sitting next to someone snacking on a tub of buttered popcorn, you might miss important details in Steven Spielberg's epic film, "Lincoln." So lean in during the...
Swiss pressured to surrender keys to secret bank accounts
— For decades, Switzerland was the place where money went to hide. Cash sent to its mountain aeries was protected by some of the strictest secrecy laws in the world....
A perfectly sweet treat from One Direction
American big-box stores hoping to peddle One Direction's new album "Take Me Home" in significant numbers this holiday season should stock it in the checkout aisle where it belongs, near...
Obamas trying to keep life normal as girls grow up ‘before our very eyes’
WASHINGTON — When her father's second term as president is up, Malia Obama will be 18 and entering adulthood. She and her younger sister, Sasha, will have spent their formative...
‘Fiscal cliff’: Alternative minimum tax could blindside millions in middle class
— The best hope for a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" may lie with the alternative minimum tax, an obscure provision of the tax code that is about to...
Taking the stress out of family dinners
Children who regularly sit down to a family dinner, parents are told, will be less likely to use drugs or develop eating disorders and more likely to be successful in...
Local chef and farmer writes about the lingering effects of West Nile
In northwest Indiana, where I have raised vegetables for 20-odd years, mosquitoes flourish when rain fills the swamp pools in the backwaters of the Kankakee River. In August 2004, those...