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Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

Earth Day is a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy some Earth Day events, or muck about greening your own patch of earth. Plant a tree or some flowers, put up a bird feeder, or set up your own backyard compost. Kids love to get dirty, and you’ll all feel good knowing you’re doing [...]

When Boston humorist and author Steve Almond unplugged his Baby Daddy blog last month, he posted a goodbye note saying he and his wife had never planned to post beyond their daughter Josie’s diaper years. But he also cited a few ethical concerns with writing the blog, which ran on the hip parenting site Babble.com.
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By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. [...]

The earliest %26#8220;typical%26#8221; Stravinsky interviews %26#151; charming, crafty, hyperarticulate, unerringly self-serving %26#151; appeared in St. Petersburg newspapers in 1912, and the stream, or torrent, continued unabated for nearly six decades, in dozens of languages and on every continent but Antarctica. By the end of his life he said he was living in a perpetual [...]

Prison Talk, a big board with nearly 150,000 members and 2,500 regular readers a day, is a case in point. It caters to what turns out to be an underserved consumer niche: family and friends of the incarcerated. Prison inmates, whose Internet access is extremely limited, also turn up periodically, usually seeking pen pals [...]

THE 104-acre piece of land, advertised as a horse farm, is striking, and not just because of the contrast between its pristine nature and its surroundings. It lies down the street from an abandoned discount chain store, across the street from an almost unbroken line of tiny bungalows and old workers%26#8217; housing. The [...]

VANCOUVER %26#151; Blair Kovacs recently sold a full suite of tiny video cameras embedded into shaving-cream canisters, bedside radio alarm clocks and other household items to a man who suspected his wife was having an extramarital affair.
The man told Mr. Kovacs he and his wife were taking a trip to their cottage, and he wanted [...]

A reader writes: My wife and I have been very close friends with another couple for more than 30 years. We are all in our late 50s. We have shared and supported each other through the births of our children, the deaths of our parents, health crises and career changes. But over the past three [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. But it was a freezing and stormy day as the American B-24 Liberator [...]