Lifestyle

5 Reasons You've Hit the Dreaded Weight-Loss Plateau
You were happily losing weight eating right and exercising, but with five more pounds left to go, the scale stopped budging. Find out what can cause weight loss to…

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7 Surprising Things that Can Affect Your Sex Life
His Belt Size Over the years, his waistline has stealthily expanded (whose hasn't?), but you've never let it get between you and a great sex life. The surprise: His…

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A Little Privacy Please!!!
AskMen.Com is out with its annual Workplace Productivity Survey. Most of us prefer to work alone — or at least we’re more productive that way. Among the findings... • The…

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10 Things Every Man Should Know by 21
Adulthood has no eureka moment. Author and blogger Kelly Williams Brown, whose new book Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps came out this week, believes…

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5 Things Your Dermatologist Won't Tell You
Super simple secrets for healthy, young skin. 1. They can tell which way you sleep. Sleeping on your side or stomach creates a furrow on one side of your…

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Travel

Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where…

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A cruise ship fitness class designed by Rockettes
ABOARD NORWEGIAN BREAKAWAY (AP) -- I'd been at sea on Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, for more than 14 hours but I didn't feel the ship moving until…

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Cruises get good buzz from new ships, overhauls
NEW YORK (AP) -- The 2013 cruise season began with a nightmare: A Carnival ship adrift with no power. But in the last month or so, several cruise companies -…

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Airlines collected record baggage fees in 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year - the highest amount since the fees became common…

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Unlikely tourist ride: Rio shantytown cable car
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and…

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Pope: church should open up but follow teaching
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing…

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Merkel and Francis talk about a 'strong' Europe
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, has discussed with Pope Francis how Europe's economy should better serve people.......

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Homesick pope? Vatican opens Argentine gaucho show
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- If Pope Francis is feeling a bit homesick these days, he need only go downstairs to St. Peter's Square.......

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$1 million in jewels stolen near Cannes film fest
PARIS (AP) -- A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera…

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Pope blasts cult of money that tyrannizes poor
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer…

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Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to…

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Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that…

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Brain Stimulation Increases Ability to do Math
Authors: James GrebeyiStockphoto(OXFORD, England) -- Bad at math? A new study by researchers at Oxford University suggests that applying high-frequency electrical noise to the brain can make you better at…

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What do we eat? New food map will tell us
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.......

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Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure…

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