Carbon monoxide poisoning. Electrocution. Fire. With all the possible safety hazards that can occur if you misuse a portable generator, you have to wonder why homeowners take the risks.

Eve Pidgeon watched the large group of kids, many of them laughing and chatting excitedly as they boarded a bus for summer sleepaway camp last summer.

Child and family experts say it's completely normal to miss your kids when they go to camp. Here are a few tips for dealing with "kid-sickness":

Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon whom they were marketing them to - lower levels for young smokers who preferred the milder brands and higher levels to "lock in lifelong adult smokers," researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health concluded.

If you are of a certain vintage - you watched Three's Company and All in the Family, you cheered (or jeered) when the Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup - you will recall a special torture parents put their children through in summer.

The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the duelling weight-loss techniques.

Doug Boyd is one of those people you meet that you immediately feel comfortable with.

* Full name: Douglas Reid Boyd

You will be happy to know, dear reader, that, after years of resistance on my part, my bride has finally succeeded in dragging her antique husband into the 21st century.

Pets are not hearing-challenged.

There's nothing like a purring lap cat, but some cats just seem unable to take the attention.