By: Jessica Golden Laurie Valadez spent years in corporate finance but had always been a passionate dog owner and dreamed of starting her own dog business. For more than two years she researched various dog-oriented…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS The holiday season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing dietary pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can succumb, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time…
By JENNIFER LEE CALL it the male iPad dilemma: too large to slip into a pants pocket, too stiff to be curled up like a magazine and too precious to leave unprotected. With its rigid tablet…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRIAN STELTER SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The…
By CATHY HORYN YOU know how remote and strange the fashion world is when you go to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. For one thing, employees are zipping around the sprawling campus on scooters…
By JOHN TIERNEY A quick experiment. Before proceeding to the next paragraph, let your mind wander wherever it wants to go. Close your eyes for a few seconds, starting … now. And now, welcome back…
Dolly Craig Denver, Colorado Sweet potatoes and curry give this comfort food a new twist. Prep Time:15 Min Total Time:55 Min Makes:4 servings INGREDIENTS: 1can (15 oz) sweet potatoes, drained, cut into bite-size pieces (2…
Lola Nebel Cambridge, Minnesota A crumbly brown sugar streusel tops a classic apple pie made easy in a frozen pie crust. Prep Time:30 Min Total Time:3 Hr 40 Min Makes:8 servings INGREDIENTS: Filling 1/4cup LAND…
Ingredients: For the Dough: 11/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 2 tablespoons beaten…
by Alton Brown Ingredients: 1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey For the brine: 1 cup kosher salt 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1 gallon vegetable stock 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 1 1/2 teaspoons…
By NICOLA CLARK In the 10 years they have been together, Charissa Benjamin and her Serbian husband have always flown from their home in Washington to spend the winter holidays in the warmth of her…
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — The notice on the door to the hotel-casino was emphatic. “The Westin Casuarina is a Smoke Free Environment. Thank you for not smoking.” Just beyond, four people were hunched…
By KERMIT PATTISON Jim Denney faced a common choice: buy a franchise or start an independent company? He was an experienced business owner in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, who had spent a year investigating a…
By KERMIT PATTISON When Remi Tessier recently decided to open a pizza franchise, he got a big surprise: it was not going to be easy to get financing from a bank. Mr. Tessier had owned…
By DAVE ITZKOFF As Madonna would be the first to tell you, there are all kinds of incentives to improve one’s physical fitness, from increased energy and improved health to the possibility that your personal…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Google’s bread and butter has been search ads — the few lines of text that show up alongside search results that are based on the keywords that people search for. But…
By NICK BILTON True computer nerds, do I have a deal for you! Christie’s, the tony auctioneer, is hawking a snazzy computer that it hopes will sell for between $159,800 and $239,700. You’re probably wondering…
By MIGUEL HELFT Facebook has more than 500 million users around the world. And Americans spend more of their time online with Facebook than with any other Internet company, including Google and Yahoo. Now the…
By MICHAEL TORTORELLO FOR years now, my foyer has been a halfway house for indoor plants — that is, halfway between a cozy berth in someone else’s home and a pauper’s grave in my backyard….
By BOB TEDESCHI I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through 300,000 apps to find…
By MICHAEL MOSS Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from…
By Clint Hale People attempt to burn calories in a number of ways. Some prefer standard forms of exercise such as weightlifting, jogging and aerobics, while others have gotten into alternative forms, such as Pilates…
By RONI CARYN RABIN Middle-aged smokers are far more likely than nonsmokers to develop dementia later in life, and heavy smokers — those who go through more than two packs a day — are at…
By SABRINA TAVERNISE WASHINGTON — When workers in a McDonald’s restaurant in Canton, Ohio, opened their paychecks this month, they found a pamphlet urging them to vote for the Republican candidates for governor, Senate and…
The trampoline is a gymnastics device, constructed from a very strong, tightly stretched material, attached with springs to a frame. The trampoline was invented by American George Nissen in the period after 1930, when as…
What’s a trampoline for if not to have fun on? Sure enough, trampoline exercise routines are good for people who avoid gyms like the plague and are bored by normal, mundane routines. A trampoline is easy…
Trampoline exercise is a great way to stay fit. It is much easier on the joints than walking or jogging on a hard surface. Additionally, most trampolineexercises can be done on a backyard trampoline or a mini trampoline, making…
A trampoline workout is a simple, low-impact way to get some cardiovascular exercise. Choose a trampoline model that works well for your situation. For example, if you want to work out inside your home, a…
They never have to know it’s good for them! When parents say, “it’s good for you,” kids usually run the other way. To them, it’s good for you means that it’s no fun, boring, or worst…
By fay roberts So you’ve had your morning jog? Got your heart rate up? Paid your dues at the Gym? Worked your biceps, your quads and abdominals? But did you exercise your cells? Did you give…
Bouncing on a trampoline is a lot of fun. You only have to hear the laughing and shrieking that accompanies children on a trampoline to know that it is something they enjoy a lot. What…
Trampoline exercises are a great way to provide steady weight loss when used in conjunction with a good, healthy meal plan. As with any exercise program, always consult your physician before you begin. The trampoline…
A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric on which…
by Laurie Sullivan Google began rolling out Place Search to combine local and organic listings on Google.com when searchers look for information around location. It aggregates results based on places, so searchers can compare information,…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER This week Google is introducing two new features. One is a new way to search — Place Search, for finding local businesses along with maps and reviews. The other is a…
By MALIA WOLLAN SAN FRANCISCO — It was just about a year ago that Kevin Faler came up with his get-rich-quick marijuana scheme. No, he does not plan to sell the drug, even if Californians…
Universal Orlando, Florida will live-stream scenes from two scare zones at Halloween Horror Nights for one hour Friday evening. Folks not wanting to face Fear in person at the theme park can go to www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/news_index.html…
Sharon Gaudin Microsoft advanced its partnership with Facebook this week, a move that could be the biggest threat to Google’s search standing yet. Microsoft and Facebook announced that they’re teaming up to make Internet searching more…
By Linda Shrieves Halloween can be a frightening holiday, but safety experts want it to be safe — for you and your trick-or-treaters. Here are 13 lucky tips from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,…
MARIA CHENG LONDON (AP) — At the end of nearly every training session, Matt Whitmore downs a pint of milk straight from the bottle. “I do it pretty religiously,” said Whitmore, 25, a gym trainer…
Caution, cleanliness advised to avoid common skin infections. Jane E. Brody When you go to the gym, do you wash your hands before and after using the equipment? Bring a clean mat for floor exercises?…
By TARA PARKER-POPE Americans are thousands of steps behind other countries when it comes to daily physical activity, according to new research that used pedometers to measure movement. The study tracked the steps of 1,136 adults…
By TARA PARKER-POPE Egg dishes can be a great way to serve up more vegetables at dinner time, explains Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health. Like omelets and frittatas, scrambled eggs make a…
By TARA PARKER-POPE PARENTING has never been an easy job, but mothers and fathers today face challenges in raising their children that their own parents may never have had to address. While children have always been…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Should you stretch before a run? That question, which has prompted countless academic studies, debates and inter-running-partner squabbles, is now at the heart of a notable new study published in August on the Web…
By MARILYNN LARKIN Dr. Barry E. Levin, a neurologist at New Jersey Medical School, has been investigating the brain’s role in obesity for more than 20 years. His recent findings suggest that exercise early in life…
The drug destroys the receptors and as a result may, over time, permanently reduce dopamine levels, sometimes leading to symptoms normally associated with Parkinson’s disease like tremors and muscle twitches. As addiction deepens, meth wreaks…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who oversees advertising and who also supplied the garage where Google was founded, has been given a promotion. Ms. Wojcicki has been named a senior vice president, Eric E….
By BRIAN STELTER Last month at a meeting in Hollywood, it was time to plot out the sequel to “Star Trek,” last year’s blockbuster reboot of the sci-fi franchise. The attendees all brought smartphones — gadgets…
By MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON — Doctors told Ann B. Maddox that she had thyroid cancer and that the cure was to swallow radioactive iodine, to kill the malignant cells. She traveled 500 miles from her home…
