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Jeremy’s Heroes is a nearly 10-year-old non-profit that has given hundreds of children and young athletes opportunities in sports they otherwise would not have had while asking them to do something in return: give back to their communities by performing service projects in their schools and neighborhoods. It’s a relatively small, grassroots organization based in New York that its namesake would have loved, if only he could have known about it. Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS, August 24, 2011 – A few weeks ago as I drove a Kia Sorento, I kept noticing all the crossover models alongside me, like the Honda CR-V, Chevrolet Equinox, Mazda CX-7, Subaru Forester, and the Toyota RAV4. As I looked at them, I couldn’t help but believe that the Sorento is one of the best-looking crossovers on the road. Read the rest of this entry »

For the third year in a row, various shops from coast to coast and online retailers will be participating in Fashion’s Night Out on Sept. 8. Timed to coincide with the kickoff of Fashion Week in New York — the presentation of designers’ collections for next spring and summer — it is the fashion industry’s equivalent of the fall county fair. FNO, as it’s called, is a moving carnival of events to beckon recreational shoppers into stores or onto websites to spend at the height of the fall retail season, when nothing is on sale yet. Read the rest of this entry »

LOS ANGELES — Former Vice President Dick Cheney isn’t picking sides in the battle for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, but in a remarkably candid interview with ABC News in Los Angeles, he had blunt words about the current field of GOP candidates.

Cheney accused Rick Perry of using “over-the-top” rhetoric, chided Michele Bachmann for overpromising on the campaign trail and said that Jon Huntsman’s views on Afghanistan hew too closely to President Obama’s. Read the rest of this entry »

Shuffling your audio files from device to device is old hat. Here’s a guide for using music streaming services to save you from drag-and-drop hell. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, we live on a planet with no shortage of stupid.

If stupid was fuel, we wouldn’t have to go to war over oil.

On the other hand, if stupid was a greenhouse gas, we’d already be living on Waterworld.

Reader’s Digest is taking an up-close and stupid look at… well… stupid — especially our dumbest politicians, celebrities and criminals.

Take Jessica Simpson here, for example.

Just don’t take oral hygiene advice from her.

“I don’t brush my teeth. No, really! I just use Listerine — and sometimes I’ll use my sweater,” she said.

Ugh! Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine being a full-grown adult… and still being shorter than a chicken.

Meet Junrey Balawing, an 18-year-old Filipino who at 23.6 inches tall has taken over the title of world’s shortest man.

Guinness World Records traveled to the Philippines to measure Balawing and give him the good news.

Balawing is nearly three inches shorter than the previous record holder, 26.4-inch-tall Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal.

Honda’s new-for-2011 CBR600F brings an iconic name back to the middleweight class – but does it live up to its illustrious forbears?

Where the original CBRs were market-leading supersports in their own right, the new version has already come in for some stick for being essentially a mildly tweaked and facelifted existing old model – the Hornet CB600F. Read the rest of this entry »

SALT LAKE CITY – A private investigator says he has tracked down a homeless Utah man and delivered some good news: He’s inherited a lot of money.

David Lundberg said he found Max Melitzer pushing a shopping cart filled with personal possessions in a Salt Lake City park Saturday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »