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Travel

Paris: A City of Lights Amid Some Dark Moments

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Aaron Dalton, JE Feature

For many travelers, Paris is all about art, fine food and romance. Certainly, there's plenty of that to go around. By all means, spend a day at the massive, breathtaking Louvre. (If the quality of the art doesn't take your breath away, it will surely be pressed out of you by the crowds swarming the Mona Lisa and the Venus...

Families

Adopting ... but not Adapting

Is there room for a child's heritage when he becomes 'Americanized'?

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Alexandra Dorante, JE Feature

When she was 2, Jennifer Kelley's mother abandoned her at a Korean train station. She was quickly put into foster care in Korea, and, six months later, a white American couple adopted her. The couple changed her Korean name, Myung Ja Choi, and moved the family to an all-white neighborhood in New Canaan, Conn. With two white brothers and a...

Personal Finance

Recession Resolution for 2009: Please Go Away -- Fast!

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Joel L. Naroff, JE Feature

Will the recession of 2008 be followed by the recovery of 2009? What a year! It began with the economy faltering -- and then got worse. There was a financial panic, followed by the disappearance of a number of major financial institutions. Companies cut payrolls every month, the stock market cratered, and the recession deepened. In other words, 2008 will...

Business

The BUGS Are Worked Out

Build your own in era of DIY electronics

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Justin Jouvenal, JE Feature

While most tech gadget companies carefully guard their products from hackers, start-up Bug Labs is courting them. The company has just released a series of modules, known as the BUG, that snap together like electronic Legos to form an array of different gadgets, from GPS locators to motion detection cameras. It's DIY electronics. The company freely gives away the hardware...

Senior Health

Wii Bowling: They Do Seem to Enjoy It at the Stiffel Center

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

Connie Felzer lined up her shot along the wooden floorboards, careful to aim the ball just right. She brought her arm back, then swung it forward, releasing the bowling ball ... strike! But wait, where's the noise and the smoke and the beer and the shoe rentals? This isn't real, physical bowling -- it's Wii bowling, and it happens every...