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By Patti Nickell
WADI RUM, Jordan — The sun, a blazing orange ball, beat down mercilessly as my driver and I bounced over sand dunes in our creaky Land Rover.
COLUMNISTS
Sharon Thompson
When Time magazine writer Joel Stein learned that all 50 states make wine, he set out to "see if good wine can really be made anywhere." He looked for bottles that cost $15 to $20, and he rated each wine: excellent, good, bad or undrinkable.
Merlene Davis
Merlene Davis
Based on what I just learned it's obvious a lot of black women today aren't as thrifty as my mother, the woman who taught me how to manage money.
Medicine
By Lauran Neergaard
WASHINGTON — One in 75 patients who gets a knee or hip replaced must get it replaced again within three years, new research finds. The studies underscore a question: Just how much pounding can a new joint take if you want it to last?
By Sharon Thompson
Feeling nervous about the economy and looking for more ways to save money? Cooking at home, instead of eating out, is one solution.
CLIPPINGS
By Susan Smith-Durisek
An ad for an art class with the lofty title "Botanical Art in the French Court Tradition of the 18th Century" caught my eye.
By Sean D. Hamill
MONROEVILLE, Pa. — As expected, a wide majority of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh voted Saturday to leave the national church and align with a more conservative South American branch as part of the continuing fallout from the 2003 appointment of an openly gay bishop.
In canine freestyle, dogs, owners bust some moves
By Cheryl Truman
In the same way it has never occurred to you that your cat can run the vacuum, it probably has never occurred to you that your dog can dance — dance with you, in fact.
October is a great month to make a new best friend for life
By Robin Roenker
Thinking of adopting a dog? There’s no better time than now. October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Area animal shelters are filled to the brim with all types and sizes of lovable pooches just waiting for a good home.
By Amy Wilson
Pat Bale weighs maybe 105. Her varicose veins are, needless to say, not a product of obesity. Rather, they are an unwelcome family inheritance, something she knew she was going to have to deal with when, in her 20s, she was already feeling tenderness behind her knees.