Reality TV wasn't even a glimmer in Hollywood's ever-wandering eyes way back in 1972 when the family drama “The Waltons'' debuted. Television, like the world, was a different place then. There were just three major networks and four kinds of shows: drama, comedy…

The reason people drive the way they do, recklessly and with total disregard for others, is because they're allowed to. It doesn't matter what you do behind the wheel. A license to drive is also a license to kill. And maim. And get away with it…

Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Floods in California. Mud slides in Vancouver. A bird flu that could turn into a pandemic. Terrorism. War.

Feeling down in the dumps? Don't want to get out of bed in the morning? Eating too much and exercising too little? A British psychologist says this…

You can't tell from the outside what's going on inside Dorchester's Patrick O'Hearn school. The building is old - brick, cement, cracks on the playground - old, worn and plain. But there's nothing old or plain about the learning happening there…

The voice was stunning - throaty, hoarse, old; not the voice of youth which routinely comes out of the radio but of a woman long lived. I happened on it in the car last weekend. Press ``seek'' and look what ye shall find..

In all the words written about the death of Rosemary Kennedy last week, no one has said what is most important. That she changed everything. The slow one. The one the father tried to hide and the mother tried to protect. This woman, whom the world wrote off, changed the mindset of the world…

The waves are gentle, the ocean in the background wide and calm. Reporters stand on the sand with their back to the water. You'd envy them normally. Snow here. Sun there.

Nobody says, ``This is exactly how it was 12 days ago.'' Light dancing on the water. Waves lapping the shore. Nobody has to…

It was an act of faith on his part to let me pick out the couch. A couch, after all, is not a dress. You can't take it home, walk around in it for a while, ask everyone's opinion, come to the startling realization that flowers on your backside are not the most flattering thing, then bring the dress back for a full and cheerful refund. A couch, specifically a sectional, special-ordered 12 weeks ago, cannot be returned or exchanged…