Your life
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Jay Harrington eats a lot of peanut butter and crackers in November.
Potatoes often get a bad rap nutritionally, but it usually is because of what gets put on or in them.
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health product marketers?
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Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday.
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Winter looks likely to be mild in the Midwest and dry in the Southeast, the government said Thursday. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected for the nation's center, especially Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Does a messy neighborhood make a difference on how people act? It sure does! Graffiti on the walls, trash in the street, bicycles chained to a fence, all resulted in a decline in how people behaved in a series of experiments.
Q: Over the years, I've read many articles on indoor air quality issues in homes, but never paid much attention until now since I'm getting ready to retire and we want to build a new home in a climate we're not at all familiar with. What do we need to talk to our builder about to be sure he is sensitive to this issue and will build us a safe, comfortable home?
Q: Our 4-year-old son has a problem with hitting other children at preschool and has to spend the afternoon in his room for this. We recently signed him up to play soccer and he is pushing kids down and tripping them during the games. My husband wanted to pull him out of the last game and take him home to sit in his room, but I didn't want to teach him to quit on his team in the middle of the game. How should we handle this?
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For me, Thanksgiving isn't a holiday unless there is pie. In our families, it seems to be the only dessert to grace the groaning buffet tables on that day.
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Q. I have two plants called angel's trumpet. They are in a tree form and are about 10 feet tall. We cannot overwinter them inside and I do not think they will survive outside. Any suggestions on making cuttings? Can we grow them from seed?
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Q. My neighbor two doors down tried to use me as a baby sitter over the summer. She would send her son down to play, without my permission, and he would help himself to whatever he wanted from my garage. No one would bother to check on him and he never said "thank you" when he left.
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Last weekend, I fell into a huge pile of leaves. Backwards.
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Election Day has passed and I can come clean with the American people.
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Q. You see many products that offer mail-in rebate offers. Of these offers, what percentage of the rebates are mailed and cashed in?
