Chicago - Americans' hands are getting dirtier, US researchers said on Monday. They said 77 percent of more than 6 000 men and women washed their hands in public restrooms - a six percent decline compared with a similar study in 2005.

THE Moora Historical Society was recently presented with a commemorative photograph of the Moora men enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1940.

Black skin is thick and lush, sensuous to the touch, like satin and velvet made flesh. There's only one patch of skin on a white man's body that remotely compares to nearly every inch of a black man's skin. The first time I caressed black skin, it felt

LANDSCAPE and portrait artist Clifton Pugh died in October 1990. In the same week, Melbourne newspaper The Age ran a front page article that included a warm tribute from his former wife Judith. It's not often that ex-wives receive such prominent media at

About 20.8% of adults and 23% of high school students currently smoke. The prevalence of smoking in high school students leveled off from 2003-2005 after declining from 1997 to 2003.