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Byline: JEFF WISE UP SHIP CREEK WHEN A CARGO SHIP GOT STUCK IN THE SUEZ CANAL TO THE TUNE OF $10 BILLION LOST DAILY IN GLOBAL TRADE, AN AMUSED PUBLIC [...]

The defendant looked uncomfortable as he stood to testify in the shabby courtroom. Dressed in a dark suit and somber tie, he seemed aged, dimmed, his posture noticeably stooped. The [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise DOWN IN THE VALLEY THE HELICOPTER RIDE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ANY OTHER: A SHORT, SCENIC CHOP TO THE MAMBA SPORTS ACADEMY, HOME IN TIME FOR DINNER. [...]

FOR DECADES, the pollsters at Gallup have been asking Americans if they trust their media. In 1974, the year Woodward and Bernstein brought an end to Richard Nixon's presidency, 69 [...]

Magic Theatre is one of several nationally prominent theater groups that are struggling in an era of dwindling funds, political hostility, and public dissatisfaction with live theater. To stave off financial disaster, Magic Theatre is reassessing its mission.

Byline: jeff wise the unsettling oddness was there from the first moment, on March 8, when Malaysia Airlines announced that a plane from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, Flight 370, [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise The doorbell rings, and Katie Wenger, 13, leaps up from the family dinner table and throws open the front door. On the stoop of her family's building [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise Long before summer's first heat wave, temperatures were running hot among the parents of New York's 4-year-olds. A series of gaffes by the test-publishing company Pearson undermined [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise Photograph by Bartholomew Cooke In times like these, when everywhere you look there's horror, it pays to keep your head in the office. Here's how. In the [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise In the bucolic hinterland north of San Diego, on a hillside shaded by eucalyptus and pine, Attila Melkuti pulls open the doors of a barn. Inside, light [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise Some folks like to take their time on the can. Not Paul Stender. When the 43-year-old former pit mechanic feels the need for speed, he straps himself [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise Just after noon on March 29, 2003, Derek Fox woke to the astronomical equivalent of an air raid. Automated alerts and agitated messages from other astronomers jammed [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise 'What's to be afraid of?' my gliding instructor, Bruce Stein, asks. 'The worst thing that could happen in a powered aircraft already has: There's no engine. But [...]

Byline: Jeff Wise This is a story about software, but bear with me. At the moment, we're hanging sideways in a rented Cessna 172, slipping from 7,000 feet toward the [...]

The door is already swinging shut as a flash of horror hits me. Clunk. There they are, my car keys, dangling from the side of the steering wheel, a few [...]

IT IS SUNSET ON SUNRISE Beach, and the great lunar orb is climbing skyward over southern Thailand. A scruffy trio of Israelis and a lone Italian follow the narrow dirt [...]

As more and more businesses create World Wide Web sites to market their products, cases over who has the rights to what names have arisen. Very high bids over domain names have occurred as more site builders want easily-remembered names.

Fighters call Gleason's Gym an institution, but it feels more like a correctional facility. Lodged above a warehouse in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the gym has chipped battleship-gray [...]

Men do have intuitive abilities, especially when it comes to determining the character of other men and how they should treat the women in their lives. Men also are satisfied with disorder and can also detect when clothes are ready for the laundry.

A woman can encourage a man to shop for new clothes by starting him off with reassuring denim and then getting him to try on something different. Alternating between shopping for clothing and sports-related shopping is another suggestion.