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Second only to "last call, Ms. Handler," it's the most common refrain among bar and club owners: "Smoking bans hurt business." As a non-smoker, I love being able to come home after drinks without stinking like Patty Bouvier, but bar owners have claimed that indoor smoking bans, where they exist,...

As web innovations go, Google Maps' "Street View" function is pretty fantastic. In cities within nine countries, including our own, you can pull up an image of major street addresses to see what they look like from the street. You can even surf along from image to image, as if you're driving past....

Woolworths closed its doors in the United States in 2001, so American shoppers haven't missed it for years. But recent news in the New York Times that Woolworths is closing all of its 807 stores in Britain, with the last one closing Jan. 5, may send another wave of nostalgia through anyone who grew...

During times of financial turmoil, consumer spending tends to drop across the board, with a few exceptions for the things that are simply necessary, like household groceries. But surprising new data from froggybank.co.uk, the UK's leading cash-back shopping network, indicates that lingerie might...