Women who have watched a mother, sibling or child battle breast cancer can become preoccupied, if not obsessed, with trying to reduce their own risk of the disease. One possible way to do that? Breast-feed. ...more

August 13, 2009

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August 1, 2009

Digging in beach sand, scientists have found, puts people at risk for subsequent stomach cramping and diarrhea because of fecal bacteria on the shore. ...more

July 11, 2009

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hastily announced news conference had all the earmarks of Richard Nixon's famous concession speech in 1962, after he lost the campaign for California governor to Democrat Pat Brown. ...more

July 6, 2009

Starting Saturday, reservations for a visit to the crown of the Statue of Liberty on New York's Liberty Island will be accepted. The crown, which was closed after the Sept. 11 attacks, will reopen July 4. About 240 people will be allowed into the crown each day, the U.S. Department of the Interior said. Reservations will open Saturday at 10 a.m. from www. statuecruises.com and 1-877-523-9849. ...more

June 10, 2009

"The Jazz Singer" brought sound to the movies. "Becky Sharp" did the same for color. Now "Monsters vs. Aliens" is accelerating Hollywood's 3-D revolution. The surging popularity of 3-D movies, dramatized recently by the $59.3 million opening of "Monsters vs. Aliens" - the biggest for a 3-D movie - has directors and studio executives reconsidering which, and how many, of their projects can be reworked into the medium. ...more

April 7, 2009

Media Misinformation When I was young I was always told the following: "If I heard or was told something of importance to check it out either through the print media or the broadcast media." ...more

March 20, 2009

California corrections officials have released a new photograph of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now bald with a thick gray beard. ...more

March 19, 2009

SEATTLE - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska's gold fields, will print its final edition Tuesday. ...more

March 16, 2009

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, a U.S.-trained economist who gained international respect and hefty aid donations for the Palestinian cause, said he will resign in a move aimed at reviving a power-sharing deal with the militant group Hamas. ...more

March 8, 2009