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NEW YORK — Ladies, step aside — just a little. The men are craving a bit of the spotlight. In the world of U.S. fashion, women’s clothes tend to get most of the glory. But the industry is aiming to change that, one chic skinny suit at a time.

Drought conditions, shortage of feed force farmers’ costs up

Maxim Zorya had more than a decade’s experience as a registered nurse in his native Ukraine and then in Israel. But when he and his family made Vancouver their home five years ago, Zorya’s nursing career floundered.

NEW YORK Hard work, persistence, initiative.

It’s a small thing, often overlooked amid major items like furniture and paint colours when you’re decorating a room. But don’t underestimate the power of household hardware.

Sarah Britton’s food transformation started when she ate a tomato picked from a vine that was packed with more flavour than anything she’d ever tasted.

Never mind an axe-wielding maniac: It may be “super lice” that await your child at sleepaway camp this summer.

Sometimes the whale-watching, the golf playing, the movies, an ice-cream cone or beer by the waterfront just aren’t enough. Not intense enough, active enough, mysterious or even scary enough.

Tribune News Service Burt Shavitz, the Maine beekeeper who co-founded the Burt’s Bees natural cosmetics company and lent it his name and likeness, has died. He was 80.

To some, a sleeve is a 14-ounce beer glass; to others, it’s a wrist-to-shoulder tattoo. And when those worlds collide, you get something like Bad Tattoo Brewing in Penticton.