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Humans are pathetic at athletic feats compared to animals. We get outrun by ostriches and outswum by penguins. But human physiology makes us aces at one sport: endurance running. Sorry, horse.

A bad restaurant write-up couldn't have been real as the restaurant had yet to open, a French court ruled.

How's this for a show? Lovely princess has an affair with a much younger man while her much older husband is off hunting in the woods. Princess's well…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W52TL9Akv4 Dominique Garcia is a radio personality who has lived in San Antonio for most of his life. In an effort to…

Loud were the wailing and gnashing of teeth when a video surfaced of Andrea Bocelli in rehearsal for Gounod's Romeo et Juliette at Genoa's Teatro San…

If there weren't a lot of cultured and sophisticated cows hereabouts a few days ago there are now. "Cowtown" is a sobriquet either endearing or annoying…

Another obituary. Agence-Presse Paris reported yesterday death of Galina Vishnevskaya. In Russia and Europe in the 1950s and 60s she was known first as…

In his commencement speech to the recent graduates of Julliard, composer John Adams lets them know how worthless -- and priceless -- their degrees are.…

The Vienna Philharmonic has but seven women, representing 5% of its 136 members. In the Berlin Philharmonic, 18 of its 128 members, or 14%, are women.…

Of all the music babies born on February 29, the birth date suits best Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868). At his death he was officially 76 years old,…