Did you know that there are toxic chemicals in many shampoos, makeup, shower curtains, baby bottles, furniture, cleaning products and all sorts of other products in our daily lives? These chemicals, which are linked to health effects including cancer, learning disabilities, asthma, and reproductive ...

Hey everyone. This is a slow week here for this columnist, but not a slow week for new releases. An unprecedented three studio releases were not screened for critics: Disaster Movie, Babylon A.D. and College. Of these three, Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel, I was holding out some amount of enthusiasm ...

AN 81-year-old grandmother has won her case against the Department for Work and Pensions.As reported, Edna Nixon, of Bader Close, on Grimsby's Willows Estate, was alarmed when she received a letter from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), saying she owed them £1,390.42 because they had been paying ...

So right now, Michael Phelps is America's golden boy (and rightfully so). He's the American hero of the Olympics, and what do Olympic heroes get? Endorsement deals! But uh-oh, Michael Phelps didn't stick with the approved Wheaties brand, and he's angered the obesity police. You better eat your . . . ...

Do you want to be the commander or the engineer? It's exactly the kind of question you'd expect to hear from Richard Garriott, the 47-year-old father of massively multiplayer online gaming. His titles, which have sold more than 100 million copies, let gamers assume the role of magician, warrior, or ...

One third of American public schools are in an "air pollution danger zone," researchers at the University of Cincinnati found in a new study to be published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. They defined danger zones as areas within a quarter-mile of heavily trafficked highways. ...

Serve God, Save the Planet Though I’ve gone on record as a skeptic of global warming and of the catastrophic man-made climate change that is so much in the news today, this certainly does not indicate that I care nothing for the environment. If anything, the reading I’ve done on the subject of global ...

You all are awesome hip domestics, and I know you take some of your awesome tips to work, so I hope the mods don't mind this ask.   My office smells like hot, sweaty boy. Notice I did not say hawt fine Sawyer from LOST sweaty boy, just hot sweaty boy which is ick.  Edit: The smell is not one particular ...

Hi all, I am subletting my gorgeous apartment from August 20th - June 20th (10 months). If it is just ONE person interested the rent is 1600 / mo - if it is TWO people (married couple, etc.) the rent is 1800/mo (to cover additional utilities). Heat and hot water are included. The entire apartment is ...

New knowledge points to the fact that a genetically induced lack of filaggrin, a key protein of the skin barrier, plays a decisive role in the origin of allergies. In a large study on more than 3000 school-children scientists found that about 8% of the German population carry variations of ...