Lifestyle

In an effort to curb theft and protect jobs, self-checkout limits are being imposed across the country. In New York City, councilmember Amanda Farías recently introduced a bill that would impose a 15-item limit for shoppers using the self-checkout lanes in NYC supermarkets and pharmacies, including Costco, and require stores…

If she’s made of money, he’s sticking like honey — can ya dig it?  Cash often acts as the ultimate adhesive that binds a well-to-do tycoon to a money-hungry grifter. Those opportunistic, parasitic “gold diggers,” whom Kanye West and Jamie Foxx melodically scolded in their 2005 chart-topper about women who strategically rope rich…

DEAR ABBY: My oldest granddaughter will be looking at colleges soon. My son and her mother are divorced. My parents gave my son (their grandson) money to put away in accounts for his daughters’ college. Instead, he helped himself to that money before the divorce. When his ex-wife told me…

New research reveals that common visions arise in the days before death. Researchers from Azienda USL–IRCCS di Reggio Emilia surveyed 239 Italian palliative care professionals, hospice volunteers, nurses, and psychologists about the end–of–life dreams and visions (ELDVs) their terminally ill patients had shared with them. Results published in the journal…