Here are some safety suggestions for people who encounter cougars:
Some facts about the cougar, also known as mountain lion, puma, panther and catamount:
Anna Lashley can't forget her surprise when she looked out her kitchen window three years ago just south of Milwaukee and spotted what she believes was a cougar.
Life in tent No. 16 is one of hardship, fear and mourning, but Rita Tichetti and her family feel lucky to be alive.
A new line of housewares and furniture bearing the name of Country Living magazine will debut at Sears and Kmart stores this fall, executives said Monday.
Catering to baby boomers and seniors who've lost savings during the recession, retirement-housing designers and developers are shifting to smaller homes that are more energy efficient and maximize space.
From a one-time $250 payment to a 50 percent increase in the limits for reverse mortgages, there are some housing-related items in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan that potentially can help seniors maneuver through difficult economic times.
For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.
Photos dangled from the charred ceiling, paintings decorated soot-stained walls. Red shards from the shattered roof lined pathways cleared through broken glass.
Picture a neighborhood where doors can be left unlocked, where 20 families gather to eat in a common home twice a week, where solar panels help heat homes, where everyone relies on each other and determines the fate of the community together.
After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health was back to normal. But the nurses at her retirement home knew better: Motion sensors in the 86-year-old's bed detected too many restless nights.
A Japanese tourist who spent three months living in Mexico City's airport has returned home.
The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking.
There are countless personal finance books that advise readers on budgeting, investing and paying down debt. Few leave the tips aside and ask you to question your relationship with money and the reasons you spend what you do.
Attention retirees, smaller cities throughout the South want you.
Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months, and he has no plans to leave.
Ski season's coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West.
The fishermen were hauling in the first net of the morning when the tiger pounced.
When this campaign ends, after future presidents have come and gone, and when today's young people are grown old, history will remember Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, as the day a black man became the presidential nominee of a major party.
A woman was cleared of all charges Monday in the shooting of a commune founder nearly killed by a shadowy figure on the stairwell of his compound.
Damien Barilko, co-founder of the Paris electric bike company Velocito, said sky-high gas prices have finally succeeded where environmentalists and governments have failed: persuading motorists to go green.
The distinguished voice on the radio advertisement pitching reverse mortgages has a familiar ring: Yes, that's James Garner, the venerable television and film actor.
As the rainbow brings beauty to our lives So our Love brings the promise of joy Theresa and Tal May 3, 1986
We are born into this world as single units there is no link of minds, we of course are nurtured mostly by adults of who smother us with love. Of who guide us, teach us to speak and how to behave.
Love is the highest emotion in life.
Scientists at the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Aberystwyth universities have created a "robot scientist" that they believe is the first automaton to make its own scientific discoveries. More Articles
Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology — including, at one point, telephone switchboards.
There is plenty of outdoor adventure in the State of Washington. Bring your camera the next time you visit my neck of the woods
Yes, there's the stress and emotional turmoil caused by encountering scenes of great poverty and need whenever I leave my home.
Strangely enough, I find myself from time to time reading the Obituaries. Finding them to be a sometimes sad but always fascinating glimpse of the not so distant past.
And what a monster to get off my back and outa my life it was… Son of a @!$%# habit did not go easy that's a fact. But after 30-35 years of smoking I did it…finally…
We all are suffering and upset. Some of us wake up each day in dread. It is hard to remain upbeat in some cases.
Dating challenges seem to be common to most smart people. In fact, the smarter you are, the more clueless you will be, and the more problems you're going to have in your dating life. On the one hand, this makes no sense.
Day 32 -- PATIENCE (Mar. 2) According to Cesar Chavez, "Nonviolence is not inaction...It is hard work...It is the patience to win."
The truth that will set us all free, is of course peace, and peace is the substance of all blessings, out of truth comes understanding, thus wisdom... So therefore the beginning of walking in truth is fear of the Lord... Fear of the Lord: Means reverance and respect...
They bid farewell to their beloved trips to the opera and museum, the beach and Buddhist temples. They ate one last time at their favorite restaurants serving Indian curried chicken and warm bowls of Vietnamese pho.
Many lists already exist ranking the cities that are most livable, most desirable, cheapest, and of course, most scenic. I was thinking a warm weather, nice place with Las Vegas would be good. The real estate bubble means rents are low and there's plenty of supply.
Some useful tips to live 100 years and beyond,
For too many of us, life revolves around the achievement of some defined "outcome." We hold tight to the belief that we can't be happy until we obtain/complete/accomplish some particular object or objective.
I have been so busy this week that I decided to put this weeks themes into one article. ~Reverence/ day 15~
Day 19 -- ACCEPTANCE (Feb. 17) "Resentment, fear, criticism, and guilt cause more problems than anything else," says Louise Hay. Today, choose not to judge yourself (your looks, your capabilities, your expressions).
Dawning Realism Evades Articulation Moving Into New Generations
She stood at the kitchen sink gazing absently out the window. Looking without really seeing, her mind swirling at a furious pace; what happens now, will things ever be the same or even normal again? Her heart beating in her chest reminds her that she is alive.
Maria was living in what I call the trance of fear. When you are in this trance, fearful thoughts and emotions take over and obscure the larger truths of life.