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You are at a formal dinner party. The guests are in evening wear, the food and wine are of the best ... and there is a live elephant in the room.

Everyone knows that there should not be elephants at dinner parties but is so shamed at its presence — and so polite — that no one even mentions that it is here. People are like that; we will not acknowledge something right in front...

Wrapped in a mental fog, Donald Powelson spends his days in an Ohio nursing home 50 miles from the Allen County farm he worked for years, unaware of the ongoing legal fight over his money.

An 80-year-old widower with only a son and a daughter his closest heirs, Powelson is a man whose finances would seem simple. But in a sordid four-year court case that everyone would like to see end, whe...

INDIANAPOLIS - In the span of five minutes, Bishop Dwenger went from despair to jubilation.

For the first time since 1999, the girls state soccer final went to penalty kicks.

And on the foot of freshman forward Lisa Underwood, Bishop Dwenger won the penalty kick session 3-1 and the school's first state title 2-1 over Zionsville at Kuntz Stadium.

A Zionsville forward broke awa...

Whoever wins election to the Tacoma School Board will help tackle a hefty to-do list:

• Find a replacement for retiring Superintendent Jim Shoemake.

• Decide whether to close schools due to falling enrollment.

• Propose a $350 million school renovation bond for the February ballot.

• Raise student performance at 11 schools identified by the federa...

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A lab test might mean the blues for you, but for some doctors, it has a decidedly greener appeal.

The practice known as client billing, or referral deals, is simple enough. A physician sends a test to an off-site l...

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Restaurants and businesses have planned a smorgasbord of tasty foods, coffee and wine at the Tavares Chamber of Commerce's inaugural "Taste of Tavares" scheduled for Nov. 17 at the Civic Center.

The event gives people an opportunity to sample small portions of food prepared by eating establishments.

The event also ...

North of the U.S.-Mexico border, Minnich's research over several decades recorded large splotches of red and orange and yellow, illustrating massive fires that consumed thousands of acres at a time. Directly across the border, the patchwork changes abruptly to a finer mosaic of much smaller fires.

"Before fire suppression became popular in the 19th century, we had the same mosaic," Minni...

The 2005 N.C. Child Health Report Card, issued jointly by the N.C. Institute of Medicine and the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute (NCCAI), makes it clear that North Carolina gets what it pays for.

n Access to publicly-supported health insurance has been expanded in recent years, and the percentage of uninsured children has dropped substantially.

n Vaccines have been made avai...

Compassionate Landscape is the most lyrical and personal. Humphrey Carver, an architect and artist, was one of the first "planners" hired by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp. He is also the only one of the three authors who genuinely loves the idea of the suburb. Not surprisingly -- for he lived in one of Canada's oldest, most elegant suburbs, Ottawa's Rockcliffe Park. For Carve...

More than 900 houses of worship on the Gulf Coast have been destroyed, seriously damaged or forced to suspend services by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, leaving many clergy without salaries.

Interviews with more than a dozen faith leaders indicate hundreds more congregations had at least some damage.

Even as Monday's Gulf Coast damage from Hurricane Wilma begins to be assessed, Chris...