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It's taken me 40 years to learn how to tell time. I'm not talking about distinguishing the little hand from the big hand (though anything between 25 after and 25 'till kinda confuses me.). No, what's eluded me is time management. Or perhaps I've eluded it. At the risk of oversharing, I'll mention...

For 25 years, Frank Ahearn made a career out of tracking people down. Now he helps them disappear. Starting in 1984, Ahearn worked as a skip tracer (tracing people who skip town) tracking down everyone from a crook who helped steal the Oscar statuettes to an out-of-focus doughball in a beret named...

America is suffering from amnesia. That's the only reason I can think of for the Republicans heading toward Congressional victory. Sure, the Dems have had two years and the unemployment rate isn't getting any better. But what nobody in Washington wants to say (because nobody in America wants to...

Now that all of the government's recovery money is gone with no recovery in sight, you'd think that businesses would do anything to keep consumers, right? Tell that to the Starbucks manager who wouldn't let a customer get a refill because he stepped outside. Or the department at Bank of America...

"If you want what somebody has, do what they do." That's what I thought as I stepped into the swank Beverly Hills home of otolaryngologist Dr. Murray Grossan, who, at 87, still practices over 20 hours a week.

Portland, Oregon has been taken over by Pod People. But they're not snatching bodies, they're feeding them -- everything from kimchi quesadillas to chocolate caramel potato chip cupcakes. All served from pods of food carts populating empty lots all over the city. Accounts differ, but there could...

Social networking: is it the key to success in the information age or a colossal waste of time? The prevailing opinion is that if you want to sell yourself or your product you have to blog, tweet, share, blab, carp, bill and coo so you can be liked, dugg, hugged, diddled or snagged. Whoever gets...

"So many people need someone to talk to," says Reva Hoewing of Poolesville, Md. "I just listen." The 76-year-old owner of Crafts-a-Plenty does a lot more than that. The mother of five, the grandmother of 12 and the great-grandmother of eight, she still works five days a week in the crafts shop she...

Freelance writer Dennis Hensley calls them Job Hogs: media people who seem to be everywhere while everyone else is out of work. Like Ellen Degeneres. Or Ryan Seacrest. "Ryan Seacrest wants to be Dick Clark, the original Job Hog," he says. "That I get. But Ellen being the spokesperson for Cover...

It's official: the chicken came before the egg. At least that's the finding of British researchers at Sheffield University. But here in Portland, Ore., we've known for years what comes first: the coop. Portland ordinances allow residents to keep three chickens (or ducks or rabbits or pygmy...