Life

Even the sturdiest-looking trees can be brought down by high winds, heavy snow and ice, but there are ways you can limit the damage.

New year’s resolutions — that time when we promise to be better, slimmer, faster, more efficient — are the dreams of what we wish we could be. Sometimes our resolutions become realized, but often they don’t.

WEXFORD, Pa. - Inside the Big Buck Sport Shop, where mounted moose and deer heads loom over rifles, handguns, targets and ammunition, the customers have no doubt: More gun laws will not save lives.

This is the year you will resolve to ditch the diets, the “all or nothing” mentality and the “no-pain, no-gain” fitness goals. This is the year you will resolve to use common sense to eat less junk food, move more — and have fun doing it.

SATURDAY The Gift of Pandora’s Box, presented by Ballet Victoria at the Royal Theatre, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2 p.m. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or 250-386-6121.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. — Arthur C. Clarke It’s not too hard, at this time of year, to find myself siding with the so-called New Atheists — Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and the like.

TORONTO — So, the New Year is upon us, and that means a pristine new calendar with all those blank squares just waiting to be filled.

TORONTO - So, the New Year is upon us, and that means a pristine new calendar with all those blank squares just waiting to be filled.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Looks like Shamu may soon be making a splash in the stock market. The company behind the water shows featuring killer whales, dolphins and other animals at SeaWorld on Thursday said it was planning to go public.

The intricacies of plant patenting came home for me this past year with a shipment of strawberry plants.