William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him.
It's doubtful there's ever a perfect time or place to end a marriage, but for Dean McDermott, that time and place was in a Palm Springs, California, hotel room after playing a round of golf.
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
Baby Bardot Vita is the second child for the Bones star
Should parents get involved in their children's issues? Here's some expert advice on seven common situations, so you'll know when to meddle and when to stay mum.
For most rockers and aging hippies the 40th anniversary of Woodstock this weekend will mark a happy occasion.
It's the first child for the How I Met Your Mother star and actor husband Alexis Denisof
He and wife Jaime Bergman already have a 6-year-old son
How many banks will fail this year? No one knows of course, but the answer is many. So far in 2009, we've already had three, putting us on a one-per-week pace. That could mean a doubling of last year's tally of 25, and only slightly less than the total number of failures heretofore over the entire decade (57).
• Anne Hathaway quietly took the next step with actor Adam Shulman, bringing him as her date to the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards gala where she picked up the Desert Palm Achievement Award. "They were together at the afterparty at the Parker Palm Springs," an onlooker says, "They were sitting next to each other and they were holding hands in her lap, trying to stay warm."
William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him.
It's doubtful there's ever a perfect time or place to end a marriage, but for Dean McDermott, that time and place was in a Palm Springs, California, hotel room after playing a round of golf.
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
Baby Bardot Vita is the second child for the Bones star
Should parents get involved in their children's issues? Here's some expert advice on seven common situations, so you'll know when to meddle and when to stay mum.
For most rockers and aging hippies the 40th anniversary of Woodstock this weekend will mark a happy occasion.
It's the first child for the How I Met Your Mother star and actor husband Alexis Denisof
He and wife Jaime Bergman already have a 6-year-old son
How many banks will fail this year? No one knows of course, but the answer is many. So far in 2009, we've already had three, putting us on a one-per-week pace. That could mean a doubling of last year's tally of 25, and only slightly less than the total number of failures heretofore over the entire decade (57).
• Anne Hathaway quietly took the next step with actor Adam Shulman, bringing him as her date to the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards gala where she picked up the Desert Palm Achievement Award. "They were together at the afterparty at the Parker Palm Springs," an onlooker says, "They were sitting next to each other and they were holding hands in her lap, trying to stay warm."
A blast of Arctic air Tuesday morning has much of the nation -- from the Great Lakes to Oregon and down to Texas -- in its cold, icy grip.
There comes a time in every free-wheeling, fun-having relationship where a lady has to suck it up, buckle down and meet the people who spawned her beloved.
Protests continued Friday in several California cities, including San Francisco, Palm Springs and Long Beach, over the passage of Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriage.
The How I Met Your Mother star and Alexis Denisof will welcome their first child this spring
The singer makes a surprise appearance at a screening of Jessica Biel's new movie
Gasoline prices may have fallen over the last 13 days, but the decline has offered little relief to long-distance commuters who still blanch at the pump every time they fill up.
They send the hard cases to John Carlos. Take José, here. According to a form filled out by a librarian at Palm Springs (Calif.) High, José is guilty of "defiance -- refusing to follow library rules regarding loudness and horseplay."
PARIS -- "Last American in Paris" could be the title of a summer blockbuster movie. The star? Robby Ginepri, the sole American survivor in both the men's and women's singles events at the 2008 French Open. Ginepri would have been an unlikely candidate for this particular casting after entering this year's French Open with a career 0-5 mark at Roland Garros.
I have always thought that golf courses are perhaps the finest collaborative work between God and man. Yes, only God can make a tree, but golf course architects can make trees seem prettier, and golf course superintendents can make the grass greener and the flowers brighter, so that even when you can't hit a fairway or sink a putt, it certainly is an awfully lovely place to be frustrated.
Most of the Supreme Court justices piled up a lot frequent flyer miles in 2007, jetting to such exotic locales as Austria, India and Hawaii, according to financial disclosure reports released Friday.
His third charge – heroin – was dismissed and he must complete a drug program
You get what you pay for. And that means you don't get much anytime you fly these days.
If convicted, the actor faces a probation term and a drug treatment program
Show sources say the star's arrest for alleged drug possession was not a surprise
The actor, who appeared to be sleeping in his car, was busted in Palm Springs
The couple heads to the California desert with baby Harlow this weekend
Runway incursions are on the rise and an air traffic vet thinks he knows why
"I'm so thrilled she's finally here," the former Law & Order star tells PEOPLE
"Film Takes Place" was the obligatory meaningless slogan for this year's Sundance Film Festival. In the logo, the word "place" was artfully wrapped in the center of what looked like a lollipop -- or was it a stop sign?
Video courtesy APHalle Berry says she's found the secret to surviving a glamorous Hollywood event while being seven-months pregnant.
Is Britney Spears sleeping with the enemy – literally?
Oscar-winner Jane Wyman, who also starred on TV's Falcon Crest and was the first wife of Ronald Reagan, died Monday morning at her Palm Springs home, a mortuary spokesman said. She was 93.
The question isn't whether to go swimming, but which pool to choose.
Jennifer Aniston is just not that into unemployment.
Christina Applegate's divorce from husband, actor Johnathon Schaech, is final, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Pill-poppin' sluggers, dog-drownin' passers, point-shavin' refs, ah me, big-time sports have moved to the dark side of the moon. Should we add our voice to the chorus of the damned?
KICK BACK This is a rare color image by famed French photographer Robert Doisneau, whose 1950 "Le Baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris" stands as one of the best-known images in photographic history (detail below). In 1961, FORTUNE sent Doisneau to Palm Springs to shoot a portfolio on life at the ever-expanding desert oasis that has long been a favorite destination of affluent retirees.
The French Open begins in exactly a month, and inevitably, the speculation over the Holy Grail of tennis -- the Grand Slam, where the same player wins all four major championships in the same calendar year -- will heat up.
SERVICE
Slip out of the dry desert heat into the breezy lobby of the Del Marcos Hotel, and there to greet you from behind the orange-topped registration desk is none other than Ol' Blue Eyes himself, looking quite debonair. Not literally, of course. But the Warhol-ish painting certainly evokes the proper dooby-dooby-do era.
Changing American demographics and social norms are altering the real estate landscape: the average home buyer is very different compared with buyers of generations past.
A man arrested Tuesday in connection with a June wildfire is a "person of interest" in last week's wildfire in Southern California that killed five firefighters and ravaged more the 40,000 acres, authorities said.
Three people have been questioned in connection with the arson that investigators say sparked the deadly Esperanza wildfire that killed four firefighters
Yesterday I heard a California Department of Forestry chief say, "This is a very difficult day for the Forest Service. And this is a very difficult fire."
The prognosis is "poor" for a firefighter who suffered burns over 90 percent of his body while battling a sprawling Southern California wildfire, the chief of the hospital where the man is being treated said Friday.
A raging wildfire near Palm Springs that has killed four firefighters and burned about 10,000 acres was deliberately set, said John Hawkins, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention's Riverside County Fire Department.
Less hiring managers predict they'll be taking on new employees in the fourth quarter, and more say they'll be reducing the number of workers on staff, according to a survey by CareerBuilder.com.
Homebuilder Toll Brothers said the current slump in residential construction is unlike any it has seen in 40 years as it became the latest to warn of a glut in new homes for sale and a slowdown in the closely watched real estate market.
Call her "The Accidental Tycoon." When Philippine-born Mary Buenaventura first started buying second homes, she didn't intend to become a real estate millionaire -- it just worked out that way.
FORGET OBSESSIVE PUTTING AND MONSTER graphite drivers: A growing number of luxury resorts are touting yoga as the newest way to hone your handicap. California's famed Pebble Beach had such a strong...
Federal prosecutors have stepped up their criminal investigation of Milberg Weiss, one of the nation's largest class-actions law firm in the field of securities litigation, according to a report published Monday.
Scattered rain was forecast in the Northeast early Monday, while isolated thunderstorms were possible along the Carolina and Georgia coast as a cold front moved across the region.
The Strategy: Build High-End Prefab Homes Minimum Investment: $300,000
"Shrek," the tale of a lovable green ogre, was one of the biggest movies of the last several years. And its sequel was equally successful.
If you can't live in the lap of luxury, it's nice to visit it once in a while. That's my sole conscious thought as I lie face-down on a massage table while expert hands rub every kink and knot out ...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, owns a home in Woodside, Calif. that most people would consider a pretty decent place to live.
You may recognize Adam Mesh from his stint as a suitor on NBC's Average Joe, a reality show in which a beautiful blond is forced to choose between average-looking guys with personality and perfect ...
WHAT'S THAT CREAKING NOISE? The days are dark and cold, and everything and everybody seems worn down--that's the sound of midwinter.
The champagne flowed four years ago when Goldman Sachs gathered tech-industry luminaries for a shindig to celebrate its new, 48,000-square-foot Silicon Valley office boasting a commanding view of t...
It sounds like something you'd debate with your dorm buddies, scarfing down Cheetos: Is Gilligan's Island an apt metaphor for 20th-century America? In Gilligan's Wake (Picador), sure to be the seas...
Elsewhere in this magazine you will find a discussion of elephants and how to handle them. That is the central problem of every person's career, from the little fellow who wipes your windshield whe...
Nov. 21 to Dec. 30: Wonderland of Lights Who's afraid of an energy crisis? Not the citizens of Marshall, Texas, who decorate their town with about 900 miles of Christmas lights each year, seven mil...
Bill and Joe, old friends, are playing golf. Walking down the first fairway, they notice a funeral procession creeping slowly along a nearby road. Joe stops, faces the procession, and removes his h...
I spent March 10--to be known henceforth as Doofus Day, or maybe Fat Friday--at a luxury resort in Palm Springs, Calif., hobnobbing with a roomful of finance executives, economists, fund managers, ...
ASIA Unlimited air travel. Cathay Pacific has rolled out the welcome mat again this year with its All Asia Pass. Round-trip air fare from New York City, San Francisco or L.A. to Hong Kong, plus 30 ...
Perhaps it was getting gently wrapped in an 88-inch towel as I emerged from the rooftop pool. Or maybe it was finding personalized business cards and letterhead in my desk upon arrival. Or discover...
The wonder of it, in retrospect, is that we found it so easy for so long to believe that our retirement would exactly mirror that of our parents. That one day, on or about our 65th birthday, we wou...
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Fortune makes no secret of its affinity for getting to the top of things when it comes to covering business. We like to nose around as much as anybody in the plumbing of a company or an industry, b...
While past scandals at organizations like the United Way forced existing nonprofits to become more accountable, they also fueled a new movement among altruistic business types. Call this crew the s...
Dear Mr. Statistics: I reside richly in idyllic Palm Springs, California, a locale where a fellow is supposed to have no worries except about possibly getting beaned by a golf ball. But lately the ...
The Vermont Supreme Court has reinstated the sex bias and handicap- discriminati on claim of a chambermaid who lost her job at a ski resort because her dentures were too painful to wear. The employ...
The year is winding down as we tap in these bytes, so it must be time for Keeping Up's traditional (now in its second year) list of the ten ''most notorious'' businesspersons of the annum. As in th...
Questions abound about the hugely successful Matisse exhibit, wowing them since September at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (and scheduled to close on January 19), but your philistine servant...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Alfonse D'Amato asked federal regulators . . . to respect the First Amendment rights of profane radio star Howard Stern . . . D'Amato's move surprised some civil liberta...
A good rule to follow these days is: Don't laugh. At least, don't laugh at every new demand of the political correctniks. It's bad luck. Many moons ago we laughed upon first encountering ''chair'' ...
After 17 years of investing, C. Beth Cotner, 39, still buys stocks the way she plays volleyball: She keeps hitting winners over the net. As a portfolio manager at Kemper Financial Services in Chica...
With prices off as much as 30% in some areas from their mid-'80s peaks, now may be your best chance in years to buy your dream vacation home. To help, here are 10 vacation areas around the nation t...
Six years after he forced Disneyland to give up its ban on dancing by same-sex couples, activist Andrew Exler is attacking another form of gender-based exclusion: a diet program for women only. Ups...
MONEY FLASH Plentiful pickings in vacation condos by Leslie N. Vreeland Prices from Palm Springs to the Jersey Shore are off 10% to 40% or more from their early-' 80s highs, so you can bargain hard...
Tuck Liskay's $250,000 Dana Point, Calif. duplex is seven miles south of luxurious Laguna Beach and six blocks from the Pacific. His $75,000 condo on the island of Maui is right across the road fro...
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