Dear Annie: Last week, my husband and I went to a wonderful concert. But I knew I was not going to enjoy it to the fullest when the woman beside me started to hum. We had great seats that were costly. I wanted to ask this woman to keep quiet, but dec...
Dear Annie: I am 15 and almost positive that my best friend, Amanda, is anorexic. I know for a fact that she was anorexic two years ago, but she told me she had treatment and is cured. I rarely see Amanda eat lunch at school, and if I ask about it, s...
Dear Annie: My 24-year-old son and his wife are the parents of two toddler boys and are expecting another baby soon. They live four hours away. I recently learned that my son goes off to work early in the morning and his wife sleeps until noon, while...
Dear Annie: Please settle a dispute between my husband and me. Several weeks ago, I surprised him with a 50th birthday party. It was very low-key and in our backyard. Several of his friends gave him gifts. I handed him the addresses and thank-you not...
Dear Annie: I have been dating a wonderful man who is very special but has absolutely no table etiquette. I know I should try to overlook it, but I can't. Jed talks with his mouth full, chows down as if he hasn't eaten in a month, uses his fingers to...
A report from the Jing Chuan Child Safety Foundation reveals that Taiwanese children are three times more likely to drown than Australian children. The director of the foundation called on schools and parents to make swimming and water education a pr...
Amanda: Check out this new folding bicycle that my boyfriend bought for me! We've decided to keep fit together by riding around town whenever we get the chance. Mike: Oh, that's nice, but it kinda looks dorky with those small wheels. And what's even...
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have returned as former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a taut, well-acted, thoughtfully organized, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery. The pa...
Dear Annie: My adult son, Nick, has been hospitalized more than a dozen times and treated in emergency rooms nearly 100 times over the past 18 years. He has shot himself, stabbed himself in the liver (both accidental) and has had innumerable bouts of...
Mike: I'm so excited, Amanda! I just qualified to participate in a singing contest on TV. I'm going to be a famous singer and everyone is going to be listening to my music and saying my name. Girls will be all over me and people on the street won't b...
Handsome is as handsome doesn't in The Dark Knight. Of the three male lookers who dominate it, who would have guessed that the one with his face hidden behind twisted clown makeup, whose perfect features and fair brow are not glimpsed even once, woul...
The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming carbon bomb if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said. Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the...
A father's abandonment of nine of his children, aged 1 to 17, at a safe haven center in Omaha, Nebraska has been on my mind like a big rock. Readers may be drawn to this event for many reasons. As someone who enjoys children but is not a parent, I fi...
Dear Annie: I have four daughters under the age of 10. We live on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, which we value as a safe place to raise our family. Last year, a new family moved in and we've become friends with the entire family. My children love to p...
The plot of WALLE may be about a steaming heap of garbage, but the film is a garden of unearthly delights. Set in a future where the Earth has become covered in trash, swept by monstrous, rumbling dust storms and whose only bona fide wildlife is the...
