J.K. Rowling says her crime-writing alter ego Robert Galbraith had respectable sales and two TV adaptation offers before he was exposed as a pseudonym for the Harry Potter novelist, and she wishes she could have kept her identity secret a little longer.
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Gwyneth Paltrow strips in Thanks for Sharing
Jennifer Aniston’s doing it in We’re The Millers. And now Gwyneth Paltrow’s doing it in her new movie,Thanks for Sharing.
Resolving the Paradox of Thrift
Don’t spend more than you make. Don’t buy things you don’t need
Computers: Carry Along, Punch In, Read Out
The new portable computers are handy chips off the old block Last summer, when Adam Osborne, former computer columnist turned entrepreneur, put his Osborne 1 computer on the market, small had never seemed so beautiful. Despite its graceless design—a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3—the 24-lb.
How Eating Grass-Fed Beef Could Help Fight Climate Change
On a farm in coastal Maine, a barn is going up. Right now it’s little more than a concrete slab and some wooden beams, but when it’s finished, the barn will provide winter shelter for up to six cows and a few head of sheep
Room Service and a Shovel: The Rise of Voluntourism
Picking up trash and pulling weeds may not sound terribly posh, but at a growing number of high-end resorts, where rooms often cost $400 or $500 a night, these activities are becoming yet another hotel amenity.
Obama ducks gay soldiers pledge — for now
The United States is fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but there are thousands of troops caught-up in a very different battle and President Barack Obama is promising to win it. Obama says he will reverse U.S
Commentary: Nobel for Obama is premature
Usually, when a president wins the Nobel Peace Prize, it is uniformly seen as a positive development for America and for the world.