Eye Color
When someone asks, "What color are your eyes?" he should really be asking "What color are your irises?" because it is the iris that contains the pigment that dete...
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When Janice Smolinski's 31-year-old son Billy disappeared in 2004, there were no Amber Alerts, no urgent police investigations.Police made the family wait three days to report the Waterbury man's d...
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William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.Peters died of pneumonia May 20 in a hospice center 20 miles northwest of...
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Chemotherapy beat back her ovarian cancer, but took Sophie Valot's fertility with it. Her doctor said she had just one option to start a family of her own: Find an egg donor, have children and get ...
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This Valentine's Day, one publisher wants you to be the one doing the bodice-ripping. Book By You says it sells thousands of personalized romance novels each year with titles such as "ER Fever" and...
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Femme Fatale, modeling for Gucci or wearing barely more than wings in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Her cheekbones and light eye color are reminiscent of a young Michelle Pfieffer, but sh...
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The Chinese want boys, and the Canadians want girls. If they have enough money, they come to the United States to choose the sex of their babies. Well-off foreign couples are getting arou...
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This is the time of year the NBA hands out kudos to its players for jobs well done. MVP, rookie of the year, defensive team _ more trophies are being passed out than on Oscar night. Now it's the le...
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A dozen headless female bodies hang from industrial metal hooks in the center of the room. To the left are a table of plastic faces, awaiting makeup. To the right, a stack of silicone molds ready f...
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Yasmine Toney describes herself as a "dark-skinned sista." So when she heard about a recent club promotion in Detroit, allowing all-night free admission to black women with fair or light skin, she ...
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