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Death as a dream world in 'Lovely Bones'

'Lovely Bones' heroine drags mortal world along into afterlife HOLLYWOOD -- After young Susie Salmon is murdered by the local pedophile in "The Lovely Bones," she ends up in a place easily mistaken for heaven, but what she...

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High-End Designer Answers to Higher Power

Priest With Passion for Fashion Provides Parishioners With Jobs, Guatemalan Village With Funds (CBS) When the Rev. Andrew O'Connor is not tending to his congregation at Holy Family Church, he's in his makeshift workshop next...

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Traveling To Afghanistan

Business Trip Jim Brosseau, 10.17.09, 09:30 AM EDT ForbesLife Magazine dated November 02, 2009 Cargo transport executive John Connolly's Kabul. "Kabul is not Afghanistan," says John Connolly, meaning the city of about 3 million...

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NBA: Dallas 129, Toronto 101

Published: Nov. 8, 2009 at 3:00 AM scored 29 points and Dallas had a 10-0 run in the third quarter to down the Toronto Raptors 129-101 Saturday. Nowitzki also pulled down nine rebounds, while Jason Terry scored 19 and Shawn...

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With slum school, Brazilian socialite targets intellectual gap

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Like her neighbors in Rio's elegant Flamengo district, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello enjoys the trappings of wealth, from riding show horses to escaping on weekends to a mountain estate north of the city.

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Injured Marine fights to 'move forward'

By Marie Szaniszlo Sunday, November 8, 2009 - Updated 2h ago The call came on a sunny day in August 2006 as Reta Rae was coming home from work in Arlington. “Mom, it’s me,” Lance Cpl. Robert Rae said, his voice shaky and weak....

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Does Wall's fall resonate today?

It seemed to herald the inevitability of democracy, but the forces at play in 1989 weren't universal T o Americans, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this week - and the Iron Curtain with it - was more than a big move on...

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Authentic Mexican dishes, plus a $100 margarita

Azul 17 in Columbia is also a tequila lounge Howard County has other places where you can get Mexican food, but a $100 margarita? Azul 17, Columbia's new Mexican restaurant and tequila lounge, offers more than 100 tequilas and...

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Religious Jews shun comics that "pollute" minds

Religious and chaste comics have become a hit among ultra-Orthodox Jews who fear the thrills of Spiderman and the sexy glam of Superman's Lois Lane will pollute and corrupt their children's minds. For the reclusive Haredi...

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Conde Nast Aims to Expand in China

BEIJING – Conde Nast Publications Inc. aims to continue adding more magazine titles in China, already a top-five global market for the U.S. publisher, the head of its international arm said. "In emerging markets like China......

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