Staring up at a summit too long might result in a dizzying and nauseating feeling. ...more

January 27, 2009

Americans may be cutting back on holiday shopping, but they are still buying video games - to the tune of nearly $3 billion in November, according to data from market researcher NPD Group. ...more

December 14, 2008

Investors believing that Wall Street is on the verge of a year-end rally piled into the market Tuesday, brushing off more weak economic data while they scarfed up stocks and propelled the Dow Jones industrials up 300 points to its highest close in four weeks. ...more

November 5, 2008

Democrat Barack Obama is bringing several GOP-leaning states he's aiming to win together in one place. ...more

October 21, 2008

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions - divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions - he was able to reinvent the Republican brand. The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of the "silent majority," the regular guys - white guys, it went without saying - who didn't like the social changes taking place. ...more

October 21, 2008

The great bellow of victory seemed to begin in the soles of Michael Phelps' feet and coil upward through his taut frame, gathering force in that all-world diaphragm, before it came ripping out of his throat. His quest for eight gold medals was still alive, though only by mere fractions of a second, saved by the unforgettably lion-hearted performance of his teammates on the United States' 4x100-meter relay team, anchored by Jason Lezak, who made the water boil with his world-record effort. ...more

August 12, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced Sunday in a nod to her strong second-place showing in the party's presidential primary. ...more

August 11, 2008

As a symbol of the last century of flight sits in its shadow, a new JetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport is undergoing tests ahead of its scheduled opening on Oct. 1. ...more

August 7, 2008

Joey Chestnut claimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off. ...more

July 5, 2008

3A GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD Springstead's relay team finally takes its turn at states after falling short two years straight.   ...more

May 2, 2008