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Save or Toss?


By DIANA MARSZALEK The Associated Press Having moved five times in the last nine years, Pam Syx, now of Venice, Fla., had many opportunities ...

Call it Twine?


By MICHELLE LOCKE The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Everyone likes a wine with character. How about one with 140 of them? Yes, the ...

Straw-bale homes have new converts


By ANDRA BRYAN STEFANONI The Joplin Globe PITTSBURG -- Students thought they were giving Mother Nature a hand when they started an eco-frien ...

Make someone's day with a photo card


By SANDI GENOVESE Scripps Howard News Service Some of my friends are already preparing their holiday photo cards. You know the ones I mean: ...