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Byline: John Christian Hoyle When the New Orleans Saints march into Miami to clash with the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV, Big Easy residents will be sporting black [...]

DON'T CALL them slackers anymore. By helping to thrust Barack Obama into the White House, young people have stridently shaken off their reputation as unmotivated and civically apathetic. His election [...]

Byline: John Christian Hoyle Mobile, Ala. -- Don't call them slackers anymore. By helping to thrust Barack Obama into the White House, young people have stridently shaken off their reputation [...]

Imagine if O.J. Simpson's criminal trial had lasted only seven months instead of nine. Prosecutor Marcia Clark's tell-all book would have hit bookstores earlier. O.J. could have hit the golf […]

Tonight I have a dinner date with a sophisticated older woman - who will be grading me on my manners. She is Letitia Baldrige, former White House social secretary to […]

The modest flock of pink plastic flamingos that graces Mary Randolph Carter's garden is just the perfect touch, she believes. And they're in good company - leaky, dented watering cans, […]

Restaurant diners who live by the swordfish may go hungry - for a while. Bringing attention to overfishing in the North Atlantic, prominent chefs on the East Coast are campaigning […]

One night when he was in Washington on business, Jeff Lowenfels was approached by a homeless man while strolling down a desolate street. "I need money to eat," the man […]

What's the difference between the Boston Celtics and the Boston Bruins? About 6 inches. I'm not talking player height here: That's the difference between the wooden floor the Celtics race […]

Looks at the history of the Frisbee. Walter Morrison as the inventor of the first Frisbee; The legend that college students at Yale University in Connecticut first threw pie pans from the nearby Frisbie Pie Co.; Wham-O as the company to first mass-produce the disks of plastic; The worth of an original Frisbie Pie tin in 1998; How to throw a Frisbee correctly. INSET: ...And Decades of Flying Pups.