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Proud of his religion and worried about its future, Chicago dentist Max Feinberg wrote a will with an unusual catch: His grandchildren wouldn't inherit a penny if they married someone who wasn't Jewish.
The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.
Before home soccer games in this Basque city, local fans wearing their team's red-and-white jersey cram into bars and streets around the San Mames stadium and chant, full-throated, Athletic Bilbao's traditional call to arms.
In a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones has for the first time surpassed those that just have traditional landlines.
A tribe trying to persuade the state Legislature to let it reopen its casino has run into a roadblock — its rule barring women from voting in tribal council elections.
Trendy California isn't a trendsetter when it comes to relying on cell phones. And while the 1987 movie "Wall Street" helped introduce the then-brick-sized mobile phone to popular culture, New York and other Northeast states lag in dropping landlines. Surprisingly, Oklahoma and Utah lead in going wireless, according to federal estimates released Wednesday.
The portion of homes with cell phones but no landlines has grown to 18 percent, led by adults living with unrelated roommates, renters and young people, according to federal figures released Wednesday.
After 27 years as a print publication, PC Magazine is ditching its print edition and going online-only in February.
South Korea's Se Ri Pak defended the LPGA Tour in the wake of its short-lived plan to suspend players who don't speak English well enough to satisfy sponsors, saying Wednesday that learning the language can benefit rising international stars.
Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 p.m., learning Latin and — to top it all off — no girls.
Lorena Ochoa of Mexico says a new LPGA Tour policy requiring players to be effective in English starting in 2009 is a "little drastic."
Imagine what could have happened to Angel Cabrera if he belonged to a tour that required its players to speak English.
Ninth grade, often the first year of high school, is a critical time when many students sink or swim while coping with new academic responsibilities and learning the oh-so-important social hierarchy.
Many Kodiak residents were a bit confused when they received election pamphlets urging them to "Bumoto!" The pamphlets for four ballot initiatives being decided Aug. 26 weren't in English but in Tagalog, a language widely spoken in the Philippines.
Police say a man named God was arrested near a Tampa church for selling cocaine. Authorities began investigating God Lucky Howard in April, and he was arrested on Saturday. Police say he sold the cocaine to undercover detectives in his neighborhood. When officers searched his home, they reported finding another 22 grams of cocaine and a scale.
For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.
EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
Bill Cosby says apathy among some black Americans about violence, drugs, profanity and teenage sex has sunk to a level of asking someone to "pass the salt."
A black judge says he was wrong to evict whites from his courtroom so he could deliver a stern lecture to black defendants, but says he meant no harm.
The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled Wednesday.
Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms.
A small sign that asked customers to order in English at a famous cheesesteak shop was never meant to be offensive, the shop's owner testified Friday at a hearing to decide whether the policy was discriminatory.
More than one in eight households have cell phones but lack traditional landline telephones, according to a federal study released Monday that tracks the country's growing dependence on wireless phones.
More than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional landline telephones, a federal survey showed Monday.
The number of Americans with traditional landline telephones has declined sharply over the past three years — a trend with ramifications for phone surveys that inform policy and market research.
It happens only in India . Pipeline Falls Over Train Near Mumbai Pipeline Falls Over Train Near Mumbai Rail traffic in Mumbai's central line was thrown out of gear on Friday after parts of an under construction pipeline fell on a moving suburban train.
Men's-only knitting night a hit at Ohio shopCall them the Knights of Knitting. One evening each month the Wonder Knit shop in Columbus, Ohio, holds a men's only knitting night.
Is Violence the only way 2 24 09 Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 How many people will read this letter because of the title. We live in a civilized society where communication is considered the proper way to solve problems.
********************************************************************** -- The Elkridge Club in Baltimore is more than 100 acres of privilege where Maryland corporate chieftains retire to play golf, swim and dine with people like themselves.
Ill. Gov. arrested in Obama successor probe on Yahoo! NewsWow! What a surprise! The guy has big balls, especially when he already knows that his butt was on the life. Can you imagine the arrogance of this bastard. If Ryan stays in prison like he should the Big B can share the sell.
24 Cars blue Sky: Only in Dubai: 24k Gold Plated Toyota CamryWith all that money floating around it's no wonder that Dubai is turning into the capital of bling-bling in the automotive sector.
Soccer Life II announced on PS2Going football crazy on PC is enough, but going football crazy on PS2 must be something special. Even though Sony's upcoming PS3 has been announced, and we could clearly get a glimpse of it at E3, some developers are still writing games for PS2.
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