Life

Doris Michaux doesn’t get out as much as she used to. So when she does, she hopes it will be a fulfilling experience. Michaux, 90, got her wish Wednesday when the Baptist Housing Society brought a busload of seniors to St.

They came from more than 100 countries to McCormick Place Exposition Center in Chicago recently, more than 2,100 exhibitors and 10 times that many buyers for the International Home + Housewares Show.

Waiting rooms are funny places. They bring to mind the old Catholic notion of limbo. Or perhaps it’s purgatory. We’re poised to go somewhere. But in the meantime, we’re stuck here, waiting for Godot. Or at least, the dentist.

Chris Fortune spent most of his life in a wheelchair, and in the end was scarcely able to lift his stiffened fingers to his mouth.

WASHINGTON - Working mothers increasingly want full-time jobs, and tough economic times might be a big reason, according to a national survey.

WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama is pushing back against the notion that she and President Barack Obama don't socialize enough in Washington.

WASHINGTON - With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - There were lies told to parents, a car with five seats carrying eight teens, and an unlicensed driver. The car was speeding. No seat belts were used.

Cioppino, that marvelous Italian-American seafood stew with roots in San Francisco, is not hard to make.

TORONTO - A Canadian-led international research team has identified a new and potentially less life-threatening form of retinoblastoma, an eye tumour that occurs in very young children and can lead to the loss of at least one eye.