Lifestyle Stories from July 7, 2012 (Change date)
-
Family History Writers' Workshop Scheduled on July 14th at main Schaumburg Library.Jul 08, 2012 6:42 am - The Computer-Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois (CAGGNI) will hold a writer's workshop to help persons to write a family history. The workshop is free and ope...
-
Could a radioactive bite really create a Spider-Man?Jul 09, 2012 7:00 am - “The Amazing Spider-Man,” which retells the origins of Marvel's wall-crawling superhero, hits theaters this week. In the comic, a bite from a radioactive spider gives Pe...
-
Women and motorcycles: Female ridership on the riseJul 09, 2012 7:55 am - NEW YORK — Cris Baldwin was 7 when she commandeered her brother's minibike on their Wisconsin dairy farm and first felt the wind in her face. More than 250,000 miles and...
-
One L of a name: L.L. Bean's initials get scrutinyJul 09, 2012 7:57 am - FREEPORT, Maine — He's arguably Maine's best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror write...
-
How dangerous is home birth?Jul 09, 2012 7:56 am - So far this year women have learned that we can't have it all: We can't breast-feed past infancy without some idiot calling it pedophilia; we can't work a top political ...
-
Designer shows off fauna-inspired fashionJul 07, 2012 9:10 am - PARIS — Giambattista Valli’s haute couture explored the flora and fauna of Mother Nature in a cinch-waisted 1950s offering for fall-winter 2012. Models in billowing flor...
-
Dior creative director’s debut hearkens back to pastJul 08, 2012 6:55 am - PARIS — Say it with flowers. That was the clear message from new designer Raf Simons in his 1950s-tinged haute couture debut for Christian Dior. When the normally exube...
-
Is the secret to Chanel No. 5’s success a parasite?Jul 09, 2012 3:51 pm - On the fifth day of the fifth month of 1921, Coco Chanel changed the scent of the world. She released Chanel No. 5 as her final vaudeville act — her only child. The perf...
-
Ok, cats probably aren’t causing Danish women to kill themselvesJul 07, 2012 8:00 am - Danish women infected with the toxoplasmosis parasite, a crescent-shaped freeloader that lives in rats and humans but can only reproduce in the guts of cats, were 1.5 ti...
-
Can you help me identify this object I bought at a garage sale?Jul 09, 2012 3:51 pm - Q. Please help me identify this object. It is gold-plated and about 6 inches long. I purchased it at a garage sale. The grandson was disposing of his grandmother’s belon...
Showing 1-10 of 24
next