Moby Dick (fictional animal)

I actually had ideas for two columns last week about Gov. Tom Corbett. What can I say? He's inspiring. One of them ran Saturday. Here's the other: Gov. Tom Corbett spooned out a bit of gruel. A single candle by his chair provided the only light in the...

A giant white plane reminiscent of Captain Ahab’s whale took to the skies over Everett this week. The aircraft is the first 747-8 Intercontinental scheduled for delivery. The reason for its understated and logo-less paint job—it has been...

TAIJI, Japan — Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" have high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, a government lab said Sunday. The levels of mercury...

Having by now read all too many snarky -- not to mention pseudo-snarky -- stories detailing the saga of Kevin Smith getting bounced from a Southwest Airlines flight because he was, in large part, too overweight to comfortably fit into......

++++++++++++++++++++ || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ I still remember my first Starbucks moment. It was in 1988 at a new mini-size coffee bar in Illinois Center. I recall being mystified by the strange name, not catching the connection to a character in...

Get Ray Bradbury talking and he soon makes the Rev. Robert H. Schuller sound like Oscar the Grouch and the proverbial busy beaver seem like a lazy sloth. "Everything is good--children don't die any more . . . people are living into their 70s and 80s,...

Friday November 22, 1996      This is a test. This is only a test. Can anyone outside the hard-core faithful tell the "Star Trek" movies apart? One featured whales, but was it "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" or "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"? And at...