Frozen dinners, check. Phone card for the hospital, check. Your list of items to buy and pack is almost complete! However, it seems that no matter how much one plans, a necessary item is overlooked! Here are a few of the items that are very useful to have on hand. Baby bottlesWhile many new moms [...]

Parents tend to be very diligent when it comes to baby-proofing the house. Electrical covers, cleaners and medicines locked up and baby gates are the norm in a home where young children live and explore. But what about outside the home? The warm weather months are a time filled with fun family activities, exploring outside [...]

It was the kind of summer morning one dreams about during an icy, cold winter. As bright June sunlight filtered through my bedroom blinds, a cool breeze blew in and woke me. Sitting up, I realized there was something seriously wrong with my breathing. On that June morning in 1998, I thought my life was [...]

What we are talking about here… Big subject! Or is it? There are different types of relationships, with: Parents, class mates, teachers, lecturers, tutors, team leaders, friends, partners, church and many others. Why it is important… People need to get on with other people. It’s a basic fact of life that we live together in [...]

In the 1960s, the future was plastics. Today, the future is wireless. This industry is poised for growth like no other. Experts everywhere firmly believe that–despite shrinkage in some other industries–wireless will continue to hum. Heady predictions were commonplace in March 2001 at a cellular communications conference in Las Vegas. Executives, vendors, suppliers, and FCC [...]

At one time or another, every worker bee in the hive finds him/herself puzzling over whether or not to pursue an office romance. Sure, there are the endless litany of horror stories: a failed relationship with a superior crippling one’s career, the snide comments of prying coworkers, unwanted advances leading to sexual harassment litigation, getting [...]

Sorry folks, but after you leave college finding the perfect mate is just going to get harder. Given the easy, instant and relatively safe access that the Internet provides, it’s no surprise that online dating services are attracting millions of people looking for love or some fun flirting. If you’ve never tried it, here’s what [...]

The term adventure travel gets tossed around so much these days, it’s in danger of becoming a cliche. But what exactly is it? Luckily, you don’t have to go careening down a 540-foot drop on snow skis, brave the oxygen-deprived elevations of Nepal’s Mt. Everest or risk your life rafting the roughest passage of the [...]

The numbers seem to get darker every day. There were more layoffs between December 2000 and February 2001, according to the consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, than during all of 2000. Webmergers.com reported 49 dot-com deaths over the same period, of which 52 percent were e-commerce wannabes. Cisco Systems stock, once considered a sure [...]

You’ll always have the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London’s Buckingham Palace. But these days it’s harder than ever to find places untouched by civilization. From the jungles of Thailand to the Amazon rain forest and other places threatened by political, economic, cultural or environmental degradation, we’ve compiled a list of must-visit places. Hong Kong. [...]