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New midwestern wine region is biggest in US

Quick, what's America's biggest wine region? If you answered California's Napa Valley, you're way, way off thanks to a federal ruling that creates a new one starting Wednesday. It's the Upper Mississippi River Valley, covering a whopping 29,914 square ...

Check the views before wearing waist-defining belt

With wide belts, a mirror is the other must-have accessory.

Shrubs can be `great green furniture' for the yard

Blooms may be losing some luster among cash-strapped gardeners weeding out nonessential spending. A practical option is investing in an assortment of low-risk, high-return shrubs. Few plants can return so much for so little attention as shrubs, which a...

MTV Poll: Young people sunny despite bad economy

Rick Lagrappe is 19, without a job and living at home in Shawnee, Okla. But he's far from bummed out about life. Lagrappe described himself as a "very happy" person in an MTV poll of 1,100 young people released Tuesday, and he wasn't alone. The poll sh...

Hunting best buys when eating healthy costs more

Has the recession cut heart-healthy seafood and leafy greens out of your budget? Are you squeezing boxed meals or fast food between two jobs? Obesity experts say the lousy economy threatens to worsen Americans' already bulging waistlines because bad-fo...

Paris menswear week winds down with Dior, Lanvin

The French capital's spring-summer 2010 menswear displays wound down Sunday with a harder-than-usual silhouette from romantic label Lanvin, a retro rocker at British dandy Paul Smith and a sheer, shorn look at Dior Homme that sparked catty rumors about...

Britain's Paul Smith returns to rocker origins

Models at Paul Smith pulled out their best Michael Jackson moves on Sunday, shaking it to "Thriller" as they took a riotous final lap around the catwalk. Smith, who designed for the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin early in his career, said the spring-s...

Dior Homme shows light, transparent menswear

Dior Homme designer Kris Van Assche's spring-summer 2010 collection of sheer suits with fluttering raw seams and visible shoulder-pads had the star-studded fashion crowd at Sunday's show abuzz with rumors that it would be his last for the Paris-based l...

Lanvin delivers hard-edged menswear collection

Paris' most romantic label, Lanvin, sent out a hard-edged menswear collection Sunday of eclectic spring-summer 2010 looks with a dark criminal twist. The models, in black shades and with penciled-on, pencil-thin mustaches, looked like fashion-forward p...

Easy ideas for jazzing up summer sandwiches

When the heat of summer has you ditching cooking in favor of sandwiches, don't settle for the same old carbs-meat-and-cheese. Liven up sandwiches the easy way _ pick high-flavor ingredients that do the work for you. Start with the bread. Forget anythin...

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