Lifestyle
Marriage as a minority state
By DAVID YOUNT
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
As America's population reached 300 million, it was revealed that for the first time in our history only a minority of us are married. The decline of marriage has been a long time coming.
Revolutions, like wars, leave victims in their wake.
A roommate problem ... Unhappy about 'short' jokes
By JEWEL KATS and DAVE SILVERBERG
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Jewel,
I need your outlook on roommate issues. I am getting really frustrated with one of my roommates, "Katie." I have been very honest with her, but I find it really hard to confront her at times.
Couple works to unmask combat frauds
By MIKE HARDEN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Mary Schantag's phone has been ringing a lot lately.
"Sunrise to sunset, 365 days a year, I've got someone turning in a phony," Schantag said from the Skidmore, Mo., home where she and her spouse founded the POW Network in 1989.
If you must have that chocolate fix, go dark
By RONNIE LYNN
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The holidays are approaching and here come the treats: foil-wrapped chocolates on every counter. Already, you can feel your waistline expanding.
Heed the usual survival strategies.
Working both sides of the church aisle
By DAVID WATERS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
American history was made last week when Minnesota's Keith Ellison was elected to Congress.
Ellison, who converted to Islam at age 19, will become the first Muslim to serve in Congress.
Was it a vote to breathe? Or to limit personal freedom?
By BEN GRABOW
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Call it a crisis of second-hand conscience.
This past election, when the House went blue, my entire state went smoke-free. I voted for the Smoke-Free act that bans smoking in all public places, including bars and restaurants.
When someone doesn't like the wedding registry
By CARLEY RONEY
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Q. My aunt called to complain that she didn't like anything on our registry and wanted suggestions for something else to buy us. What am I supposed to tell her?
A.
Study challenges advantages of angioplasty
By LEE BOWMAN
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
In a finding that challenges the way American cardiologists treat tens of thousands for heart attacks each year, a new study concludes patients who undergo a balloon angioplasty to open a blocked artery days after a heart attack gain no advantage over drug treatment.
Opening arteries that are 100 percent blocked within the first 12 hours after a heart attack through angioplasty to quickly restore blood flow to the heart is considered the gold standard for cardiac care.
But many doctors believe that eliminating the blockage, even well beyond the initial treatment window, is still a good strategy to prevent another heart attack, heart failure or death.
Each year, about 1 million people in the United States have a heart attack, and about half of them die.
Lassen has cooled, but it isn't tame
By ALLEN O. PIERLEONI
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The landscape here speaks clearly, in a rumbling voice, saying it was forged over millions of years by the irresistible powers of fiery volcanoes and glaciers of ice, when chaos and upheaval ruled.
Now Lassen Volcanic National Park is mostly cooled off, calmed down and resurrected.
The best Mayan artifacts, from Central America to Pennsylvania
By VIRGINIA LINN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
If you want to learn more about the ancient Mayas, where do you go?
That's the fun part, because depending on your sense of adventure and stamina, you can seek out ruins still cloaked in lush tropical forests and accessible only through back jungle trails or find some close to airports or beach resorts that are merely a bus ride away.
Pyramids, temples, palaces, observatories and ball courts are common to many of the hundreds of Classic Mayan sites throughout Mexico, and Central America.
