Archive for the ‘Lifestyle’ Category

A wheelchair-bound woman dressed only in bra and panties caught a Wednesday morning flight out of Oklahoma after passing through security.

A shop owner in western Pennsylvania has sold himself a winning $1.8 million lottery ticket — and as the seller of the ticket, he’ll get an extra $10,000. Ron Rea owns Tobacco World stores in Uniontown and Belle Vernon. He bought the winning ticket for the Nov. 18 Match 6 Lotto drawing at the Belle [...]

Who knew in the beginning that the world’s most expensive website would turn out to be sex.com? It makes sense since sex sells, but it is still surprising that the coveted site sells for $13 million. The previous owner of the site was Escom LLC, and they had to sell the domain due to debt [...]

On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, Dean Potter stepped onto a tongue of rock just below the summit of Switzerland’s Eiger and jumped off. At first he plunged toward a ledge 600 feet below, then air gathered in his wingsuit, his forward trajectory kicked in, and he began to fly.

A married couple have sparked fury by setting up a website to let the public vote on whether or not they should have an abortion. Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, say they launched www.birthornot.com because they are unsure if they want to be parents. They believe the controversial poll so the public could ‘make [...]

Huntsville, Ala., is not known for its love of sex toys. In fact, Alabama itself has banned the sale of our favorite gag gift (no pun intended) unless you can present some I.D. and explain how you need a vibrating penis for “medical reasons.” That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that Pleasures, a local sex [...]

Is the Netherlands the New Land of Freedom? Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation’s bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse the health measure for small pubs. The government said late on Wednesday it will amend the law to allow [...]

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (WJBK) – A Highland Park adult bookstore has sold the winning ticket for Saturday night’s Powerball lottery. Fox 2′s Alexis Wiley talked to people who live in the neighborhood, click on the video player to watch her report. According to the state lottery Web site , the ticket, sold at the Uptown [...]

A “hidden” language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal community that subsists on farming and hunting. They found an entirely different vocabulary and linguistic structure. Even the speakers [...]

The following is a series of 12 questions relating to my forthcoming book, The Moral Landscape, and my answers to them. 1. Are there right and wrong answers to moral questions? Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek [...]

A man plans to ride his Harley-Davidson about 300 miles from the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan to the Ohio border without using his hands to steer to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research. Phil Comar of Adrian told The Daily Telegram that the Sunday ride is in memory of his father, Robert, who died in [...]