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AP - Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow ? like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.

Vincent A. Russo responded to readers' questions about long-term care insurance.

Democrats argue Bush proposal would threaten women's access to contraception.

Why, wonders Tarquin Cooper, would anyone race up and down mountains in foul weather? 'It's a Zen thing,' he is told. 'You thrive on that pain. In the end, you start to love it'

Evelyn Evans learns to blend her own essential oils.

Someplace else, people might tell you that human life is priceless. In Washington, the federal government has appraised it like a '96 Camaro with bad brakes.

CHICAGO -- A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an inland Ohio reservoir, spurring fears of major fish kills and the virus's possible migration to the Mississippi River.

KATE Chetwynd seemed to have everything to live for, with a newborn child and a loving family around her.

LOUD music in bars and pubs makes people drink more heavily and quickly, a study revealed yesterday.

A GP who gave sleeping pills to a patient so she could kill herself, branded the law an "ass" yesterday.