PRODUCT REVIEW: Artemis Woman Personal Groomer Available at Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, artemiswoman.com, or by calling 1-877-212-1560; retails for $14.99. ...more

August 30, 2008

Brazil will spend $160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast, the defense minister said Friday. ...more

August 30, 2008

"The Physics of Christianity" by Frank J. Tipler (Doubleday, $15.95) ...more

August 24, 2008

A local computer businessman has donated a slew of copies of a local author's books to an international nonprofit organization. ...more

August 21, 2008

When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city. ...more

August 16, 2008

The pictures show shredded limbs, burned faces, profusely bleeding wounds. The subjects are mostly American GIs, but they include Iraqis and Afghans, some of them young children. ...more

August 5, 2008

I was both puzzled and horrified when I listened to Nobel laureate Al Gore blatantly lie about global warming. ...more

July 30, 2008

Looking back over the last 40 years, the presidential campaign that most closely resembles this year's is the contest between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976. The Republicans were the incumbent presidential party that year, as they are now, but the Democrats had a big advantage in party identification - on the order of 49 percent to 26 percent then, far more than today. ...more

July 20, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI, like many world leaders, has spoken passionately about the urgent need to protect the planet from climate catastrophe. But unlike his fellow heads of state, the pontiff has actually created a carbon-neutral economy - and done it inexpensively and quickly. ...more

July 20, 2008

Paul Nerger of Valrico flipped through a binder detailing the specifications of a dozen foreclosed houses in the Bay area as he rode a bus one recent Saturday morning. He was one of 13 riders people who had signed on for a "foreclosure bus tour" organized by a Tampa Realtor. ...more

July 11, 2008