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Treat Yourself: Eating Dessert at Breakfast Can Aid Weight Loss
Turns out, that morning chocolate chip scone may not wreck your diet after all. In fact, it might help you stick to your weight loss goals. Researchers from Tel...
The Germiest Spots in Your Hotel Room
Hopefully you pack hand sanitizer when you travel because you may need it — especially in your hotel room. If you flick on the light switch or use the remote...
The Airlines Get a Little Cranky
Interesting week in the airline business. On Thursday a cranky three-year-old got his entire family chucked off an Alaska Airlines flight for refusing to put...
A Dragon Shakes Hands With the Space Station
There's a little purple dragon on the Capcom console in Mission Control in Houston. But even if you had been in the room this morning, you could be forgiven for...
Brain Surgery, Live on Twitter
Doctors at Houston’s Memorial Hermann hospital have set the latest trend in science: live tweeting. Following on the heels of its live-tweeted open-heart surgery...
Alumni Credit Card? First, Lose the Greedy Pitch
Doctors learn to “first, do no harm.” Maybe universities should come to the same understanding before they start hawking credit cards to students on campus. Wait...
Can ID-Scanning Machines Ease Lines at Airport Security?
The Transportation Security Administration is slowly testing a system that will check boarding passes and IDs by machine, instead of relying on an officer’s...
NASCAR Takes an Easter Holiday, But There’s Always Golf to Watch
I was looking forward to weekend of alternating between the glorious green of the Masters and asphalt jungle of NASCAR. But those good ole racing boys leave...
Tear Down That Wall?
Rick Santorum seems to be a well-read man. In a single speech on faith and politics, delivered in September 2010 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston to...
Girl Scouts Punch Thief, Jump on Car in Cookie-Cash Robbery
What’s a girl to do when thieves snatch nearly $200 of your Girl Scout money?
A Hospital Live-Tweets an Open-Heart Surgery
Warning: Graphic images ahead. Don’t click on this if you’re squeamish. Houston doctors live-Tweet a 57-year-old patient’s double coronary artery bypass surgery,...
SNL’s Five Best Skits: Friends Visit Blue Ivy Carter, Linappropriate Puns
Maya Rudolph’s signature Whitney Houston impression was conspicuously (and appropriately) missing, but that didn’t stop the former SNL powerhouse from bringing...
Q&A: Two Super Bowl Champion Coaches Talk NFL Playoffs
Tebowing fanatics, take heart. Though Tim Tebow doesn’t take the field until Sunday afternoon, there’s still plenty of football to go around beforehand. The NFL...
Scrooged: Walmart Managers Turn Down Layaway ‘Secret Santa’ Donor
After one anonymous woman in western Michigan generously paid for a stranger’s layaway purchases, reports of copycat good Samaritans have popped up around the...
Galley Girl: The Tragic and Inspiring Tale of Gabby Giffords
A trio of books takes a look at the case of the wounded Arizona congresswoman.
Rookie of the Year? Minnesota Wild Signs 51-Year-Old Goalie
Desperate times call for desperate measures, even in professional hockey. For the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, that means signing a middle-aged shop owner as a...
Mark Kelly, Retired Astronaut and Steadfast Supporter of Gabrielle Giffords
Astronaut Mark Kelly skyrocketed to fame as the loving husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after the Arizona congresswoman was shot at a campaign event...
Fourth Blogger Reportedly Killed by Los Zetas Mexican Drug Cartel
The Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas have reportedly executed the fourth blogger since September for sharing information on social media sites.
Texas Fumes Over Space Shuttle's Houson Omission
“It's like putting the Statue of Liberty in Omaha.” — TED POE, a Texas U.S. Representative, discussing the frustration in Houston over cities such as New York...
Urban Outfitters Taken to Task for Faux 'Navajo' Products
Fashion retailer Urban Outfitters has landed in hot water after a scathing letter points out its (potentially illegal) fascination with all things Navajo...
