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When FedEx acquired printing chain Kinko's in 2004 for $2.4 billion, the air-cargo shipper's grand plan was to integrate the 1,200 stores into its business-services offerings. The goal was a digitally linked network of one-stop stores for customers to make, print, pack, and ship anything. A new name and logo, designed by Landor Associates in San Francisco, merged the two identities ...

THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Eating fruits and vegetables rich in flavonoids and drinking tea may help protect smokers from lung cancer, say researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Flavonoids are water-soluble plant pigments that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that can counteract damage to tissues. The UCLA team made the conclusion based on a study of ...

This documentary looks at a culture predicated on might and obsessed with achieving success at any cost. Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 1980s saw an explosion of butt-kicking in America, observes Christopher Bell in the raucously funny and surprisingly insightful prologue to his debut documentary, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster." And as a 12-year-old kid from a loving but undeniably short ...

A film director wears many hats: translator, visionary, disciplinarian. With so much power and so much responsibility, it’s no wonder that directors often end up sparring with actors, writers, and even other directors. In a recent directorial dust-up, Spike Lee made headlines by criticizing Clint Eastwood. "Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Get ready for iPhone-mania 2.0. On July 11, Apple will launch a zippier version of the iPhone starting at $199 with a two-year AT&T contract, down from $399. It will have built-in GPS for traffic directions, run on a speedy "3G" wireless network from partner AT&T and offer corporate e-mail support. "Sales will explode," says Van Baker, an ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish. Groups of long-tailed macaques were observed four times over the past eight years ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A woman pleaded guilty Monday to killing her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim's three children in a plea deal that allowed her to avoid the death penalty. Tiffany Hall, 26, pleaded guilty to all five charges against her — four counts of murder and one count of intentional homicide in the death of the fetus ...

We have the same row over and over again, never solving anything Having the same row is common enough and the result is that we get so used to what our partner is going to say that we switch off mentally because we’ve heard it a million times before. So the next time it happens, try to take a mental leap ...

In a few hours time, Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, will stand up and address a conference in San Francisco at which he is widely expected to unveil the next version of the company's much-lauded iPhone. In the meantime - as is customary before product announcements from Apple - pundits the world over are busy making their best guess at what ...

(CBS) Sen. Hillary Clinton officially suspended her presidential campaign over the weekend, endorsing Sen. Barack Obama and giving a rousing speech as she did. "When we first started, people everywhere asked the same questions: Could a woman really ser

THESE extraordinary new pictures show the world's first pregnant man—captured just four weeks from the birth of his baby girl. In an exclusive and moving interview with the News of the World, sex-change dad Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy tell of th

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. average price for a gallon of regular gasoline topped $4 for the first time, a survey issued on Sunday by the travel group AAA showed.

TOKYO (AP) — A man plowed into shoppers with a truck Sunday and then stabbed 17 people within minutes, killing at least seven of them in a grisly attack that shocked a country known for its low crime rate. The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing. The assault, which ...

Diane Coutu had suffered from depression for most of her life, but the revelation that compelled her to seek treatment occurred, surprisingly enough, in the workplace. While growing up, Coutu coped with periodic feelings of sadness and hopelessness well enough to become a high achiever—captain of her high school's cheerleading squad, a Rhodes scholar, and a Yale graduate with a degree ...

See what's hot and happening this weekend... First, go out and buy a Father’s Day gift so that if you order it online your Dad receives it in time and so that you aren’t scrambling at the last minute. If you are just getting him a card, do it this weekend so all the good ones aren’t taken and so you ...

With $4-a-gallon gas prices threatening to put the brakes on summer road trips, would-be motorists may be looking for extra guidance on routes that are truly worth the trip. Rand McNally offers five suggestions with its 2009 Best of the Road awards, announced this week and outlined in its 2009 road atlas. Now in their eighth year, the awards lay out ...

WASHINGTON — The nation's unemployment rate shot to 5.5% in May from 5% in April, biggest monthly rise since 1986, the government said Friday, as employers cut 49,000 jobs. "The report has recession written all over it," says Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Economy.com. "It's a big job decline, a large increase in the unemployment rate across all industries and ...

A rare form of tuberculosis caused by illegal, unpasteurized dairy products, including the popular queso fresco cheese, is rising among Hispanic immigrants in Southern California and raising fears about a resurgence of a strain all but eradicated in the U

BALTIMORE — Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at New York's ...

Hose or no hose? That's the working woman's dilemma around this time of year. The weather grows warmer, and the debate heats up: Are bare legs proper?