PHILADELPHIA, PA — With airlines charging for everything from a single piece of stored luggage to a can of soda to “extra” leg room, it was only a matter of time until one proposed weight-based fees for the privilege of flying. Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and...

PENSACOLA, FL — First Amendment attorney Lawrence Walters is trying a new approach to convince a jury the material at issue in Ray Guhn’s obscenity trial meets one prong of the Miller Test: It does not fall outside the bounds of the local community’s standards of decency....

KNOXVILLE, TN — Nice Guys have long watched in horror as the girls they fancied fell into the arms and beds of heartless Lotharios that provided them with endless hours of Dear Abby letter-writing fodder and relationship baggage. Why, oh why, didn’t those girls spend their...

REDWOOD CITY, CA — The clever animation sequence promoting Electronic Arts’ (EA) brand-spanking new program, Spore Creature Creator, begs users to “leave my sister out of it” when it comes to mocking up alien life forms. It then signs off with “that is all.” As a number of...

CUPERTINO, CA — It may not be Apple chairman Steve Jobs’ favorite indication of the popularity of his company’s ubiquitous communication device, but over the past year Google Trends has reported a sharp increase in the Web buzz associated with the term “iPhone porn.”That...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — It was June 21, 1948 when Geoff Tootill and his university laboratory partners delivered the Small Scale Experimental Machine. For the first time in history, a machine was capable of containing memory that could store an executable program and not need...

STAMFORD, CT — The number of personal computers in use worldwide has surpassed 1 billion units and the installed base is growing at about 12-percent annually. At that pace, the figure likely will double by early 2014, according to Gartner Inc.Gartner defines the installed...

LAS CRUCES, NM — Jesse James, James Dean, Kid Rock, Tommy Lee, Mick Jagger, Snoop Dog, Tupac – all Bad Boys with a special way with the ladies. What Nice Guy hasn’t wondered where a woman’s good sense goes when she falls for a Bad Boy, leaving him convinced that Nice Guys...

ZHELEZNOVODSK, RUSSIA — While American conservatives might consider the very suggestion a perverse attack on public decency, a Russian town that has built its reputation on getting to the bottom of health matters has erected a $42,000 bronze monument commemorating the lowly...

LAS VEGAS, NV — It is not uncommon to hear industry insiders observe that we “eat our own.” Fortunately, many of the bad old ways are dying, and an increasing number of professionals are motivated by a sense of social obligation and a desire to “give back” to their various...