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Choose your hues

You can call it a rainbow coalition in the fight against cancer or you can call it a fashion show.

Taste

Summer supper trifecta

Light, in-season and make-ahead — it’s the trifecta for the perfect summer supper.

Life

Facebook on top in divorce evidence

Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.

theGuide

Shakespeare in short time

In “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged” three actors make short work of the Bard’s history plays by presenting them as a gridiron contest.

At Home

These fan favorites help save

Conjure up an image of vacationers sitting on a verandah at a tropical resort, a ceiling fan rotating overhead and supplementing the cooling effect of the ocean breezes.

Entertainment, Travel & Culture (etc.)

The moon rises over Edinger Hill.

The moon rises over Edinger Hill.

Sandra Snyder

Just imagine a house full of monikers

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but the real question: Would there be any sort of return on investment?

Tom Mooney

The grass is always greener in other yards Tom Mooney Remember When

Obviously the members of the tour group have never seen a backyard like mine. They’re gawking like first-time visitors to Manhattan.

Health and Medical News

FDA issues hold on much-debated Avandia study

Federal health officials are barring new patients from enrolling in a safety study of GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia, a week after a panel of experts ruled that the drug increases heart risks. The Food and Drug Administration said it issued a "partial clinical hold" on the study to update researchers o ...

Consumer News

Avoid costly colleges to graduate debt-free

STUDY HALL: Sure, your kid is gonna rack up an enormous amount of debt over the next four years. But isn't that just the price your coed, or maybe you, has to pay for a good college education these days? Not so, says Zac Bissonnette, a student at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, blogger and author of the recently published book ...

Technology News

EBay 2Q profit rises 26 pct on PayPal, marketplace

EBay Inc. reported healthy second-quarter earnings Wednesday as more people transferred money through its PayPal payment service and shopped on its main website. The online auction site operator also gave lower-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, predicting that a strengthening dollar will cut into overseas revenue because ...

Science News

Hundreds of dead penguins dot Brazil's beaches

Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still investigating what's causing them to die. About 500 of the black-and-white birds have been found just in the last 10 days on Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state, said Thiago do Nasc ...

Religion

House Church: Skip the sermon, worship at home

To get to church on a recent Sunday morning, the Yeldell family walked no farther than their own living room to greet fellow worshippers. The members of this "house church" are part of what experts say is a fundamental shift in the way U.S. Christians think about church. Skip the sermons, costly church buildings and large, f ...