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Back to Home > Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 Business Posted on Thu, Mar. 29, 2007 email this print this

It's tough to imagine Suze Orman as a waitress. But that's where she started, serving diner food to the likes of Apple founder Steve Wozniak at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley.

It was a time that Orman, now a 55-year-old bestselling financial author and TV star, described as "the bes...

Bill would ease rules on insurers with claims from condos and businesses.

TALLAHASSEE - When lawmakers approved sweeping insurance reforms early this year, they promised Floridians would no longer wait months or years to collect on insurance claims.

Now, the House is moving to undo a key part of that guarantee.

Under a bill that moved forward Wednesday, insurance companies wou...

POSTCARD PRETTY The "Mountainview" house and the swimming pool at Passages, a rehab center in Malibu, Calif.

IN the weeks before Tara Conner handed over her crown as Miss USA, she talked to television reporters about her stay at a treatment center for drug addiction and alcoholism. At the insistence of Donald Trump , an owner ...

"Big and Little. -- Among the great variety of birds, beasts and fish that decorate our oyster shops and decoy the hungry, many curiosities are there to be found.

"At yesterday among a vast collection of birds, ducks, squirrels, and oysters, there was the very fattest buck, and the very smallest sturgeon. The former was almost as fat, both within and without, as a prize sheep at Christmas...

Back to Home > Life & Times > Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007 Health Posted on Wed, Mar. 28, 2007 email this print this

Sam Monismith was prepped and ready to begin his colonoscopy when health workers brought the university professor awkward news: His insurance wasn't going to cover the colon cancer check. They wanted a signed promise to pay, or the test was off.

Monismith hesitated only b...

Back to Home > News > Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007 Today in the Times Posted on Wed, Mar. 28, 2007 email this print this reprint or license this

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest maker of personal computers and printers, promised to reduce its global energy use 20 percent by 2010.

The cut, from 2005 levels, includes changes to operations, product design and packaging, and its su...