Think of all those brand names that players pick up as endorsements. And make bags of money in the process. And the team strips emblazoned with corporate logos. But maybe it's time for a new logo to be branded across the chests of our favorite soccer stars -- those ones...

Soccer is struggling to shake off the curse of flopping -- when a player dives through the air to win his team a penalty. Here's a list of the top soccer floppers.

Germany's Jurgen Klinsmann soared through the air like the Ride of the Valkyries, the uber-flopper of his generation....

While in the library the other day, the man next to me was looking at A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. His laptop buzzed and he quickly abandoned his reading continuum for a short blast of finger pulses transmitting data to followers everywhere across the cyber universe. He...

"What's that?" I asked.
"A literary fortress," he said, "And a metaphor."
I walked around the battlements. Thick hardback tomes lay beneath stacks of paperbacks rising into walls and turrets.
"The foundations are the Greek myths," he said.
I ventured to pick up a...

There is a lovely little library in the Berkeley neighborhood of Elmwood, in California. The rumble of the world recedes when you step inside. On one side, little kids sit with the librarian learning the pleasure of opening a book. Across the way, at the tables sit the readers of...

OK, this one is for the books. We need them for more reasons than reading. A while back, my molar was in its death throes, and the dentist was several days away. I was screaming in agony. Cats fled, dogs barked, and neighbors buried their heads under pillows. Aspirin failed....