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Maureen Ryan was the first to report that as many as three “Battlestar Galactica” TV films were under discussion at the Sci Fi network. She noted that “it would make sense to make more ‘Battlestar’ TV movies while the show’s creative team and actors are still all in one place.” Well, too late for that now — the cast is being flung far and wide.

Tonight in Vancouver, the "Battlestar" cast will have its wrap party. On the shooting schedules in these final weeks, huge chunks of time have been blacked out to accommodate new jobs for Cylon and human character alike: No Mary…

Waistlines are measured by employers to determine the overall health of the company. Those with overweight employees are fined, and unhealthy employees are shamed into becoming thinner, else being labeled a “metabo.” Retirees and family members are also included. The question is asked: could this work in the US with our much larger populace?

Mr. Ogushi was actually a little harder on Americans than they deserved. A survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that the average waist size for Caucasian American men was 39 inches, a full inch lower than the 40-inch…

Is Darwin due for an upgrade? There are growing calls among some evolutionary biologists for just such a revision, although they differ about what form this might take.

Transitions between species documented by the fossil record seemed to be abrupt, perhaps too abrupt to be explained by the modern synthesis. If this were generally true, it could render irrelevant much of natural selection occurring within…

Stylish design, seasonal menus using local produce, and a sea view… no wonder we want to eat beside the seaside

I might suggest The Steam Packet, Isle of Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway. While technically not a restaurant I guess but a pub and restaurant, it sits on the quayside at the harbour and serves some of the best food I have had in all of the UK….

In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the countrys history, a plan for the state to buy the nations largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corp.

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. — In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced…

The American Red Cross and Johnson & Johnson announced that they had settled a longstanding dispute over use of the Red Cross trademark.

Johnson & Johnson sued the Red Cross last August, claiming that the organization’s decision to use the Red Cross symbol on products sold in stores was a violation of a longstanding arrangement. Under that arrangement, the company…

A new study shows that alcoholic drinks served in bars and restaurants are often larger than the standard size and contain more alcohol.

Nationwide, there is a big effort to take the mystery out of alcoholic drinks. Health groups have been battling the federal government over a proposal to label packaged alcohol products with information on nutrition and alcohol content, similar to…

From Scarface? to Miami Vice,? Floridas drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.

“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which…

A raw food regimen is not just another diet, it’s a way of life that requires serious commitment to reap the health benefits, and the long-term implications need to be considered carefully as well.

Prepare for some shock and awe, petrol lovers. Despite the greens trying to wipe it out, the car is about to offer us the most exciting year ever

Struggling with shrinking revenues and new federal mandates that focus on improving the test scores of the lowest-achieving pupils, Mountain Grove and many other school districts across the country have turned to cutting programs for their most promising students.

Since that survey, released in 2002, the outlook for programs for the gifted has grown harsher. In Michigan, state aid for gifted students fell from more than $4 million a year to $250,000. Illinois, which was spending $19 million a year on…