I love Thanksgiving, as my one-size-bigger-each-year elastic waistband pants seem to attest. Of course, when I was young I could devour the annual Thanksgiving feast without concern, as calories avoided me like the proverbial plague. Then I hit middle-age and I had to start working progressively harder at getting rid of those extra pounds, particularly around ...

I was recently given the opportunity to interview Miss USA. Since I don’t really keep up on the pageant world I had to do some research. Alyssa Campanella seemed like a fine person – I was mostly curious to ask her about feminism. Alyssa currently lives in New York City with Miss Universe. She is hardly ever there ...

Congratulations to all new parents, especially first time parents! One of the most exciting times of your life awaits you. However, it can also be the most stressful time of your life, though it does not have to be. Thankfully, Baby Koo, a Boston baby gear store, has put together a list of all the essential ...

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with an election-year ruling due by July on the U.S. healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years. A Supreme Court spokeswoman said oral arguments would take place in March. There will be a total of 5-1/2 hours of argument. ...

A veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes, according to a study published Monday. Military suicides have increased since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Center for a New American Security Suicide report. In the fiscal year 2009 alone, 1,868 veterans of these wars have made suicide attempts, according to armytimes.com. These staggering figures ...

Under rising pressure from fellow Republicans, presidential hopeful Herman Cain sought to muddy the reputation of one accuser, forcefully denied any and all allegations of sexual impropriety and vowed Tuesday the growing controversy would not drive him from the race for the White House. "Ain't gonna happen," he declared. Cain flashed defiance one day after a woman ...

In connection with the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama to Jammu and Akhnoor on 16th November, 2011, Director Tourism, Jammu Robin Singh Mehta, held a meeting with representatives of Travel Trade Associations of Jammu here today. During the meeting, the arrangements to be made by the department of Tourism and the Travel Trade and Hotel Associations for ...

A U.S.-educated engineering professor with little political experience is Libya's new prime minister, a choice that could reassure Western nations that helped topple Moammar Gadhafi and Libyans who consider many prominent figures tainted by links to the former regime. Abdurrahim el-Keib was chosen late Monday by Libya's National Transitional Council, winning 26 of 51 votes. He ...

What do séances and “tapping tables” have to do with today’s zeitgeist?  Perhaps as much as surrealism had to do with yesterday’s.  Today’s age is the first fully electronic age with each “soul” represented on the net digitally.  It is also the first age of electronic voting and mainstream radical politics that selects candidates “democratically”, ...

A teacher and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings on Wednesday, almost three days after a devastating earthquake struck eastern Turkey, but searchers said hopes of finding anyone else alive were diminishing. Excavators began clearing debris from some of the collapsed buildings in Ercis after searchers removed bodies and determined there were no other ...