New York City’s garment industry once had lots of zipper shops, some bigger than his, Mr. Feibusch says. But little by little they relocated, to China, India, Costa Rica. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks. “They couldn’t get their goods in,” he said. “That was the end of the business.”
But not for Mr. Feibusch, a [...]

Fast-forward a few decades and there I was again, on the shores of Sydney Harbor cleaning up a very different kind of litter. It was 1989 and I was leading the first ever Clean Up Day on Sydney Harbor and 40,000 other Sydneysiders were removing hundreds of tons of accumulated plastic, polystyrene, aluminum cans and [...]

(CNN) — Nine people federal prosecutors say belong to a “Christian warrior” militia were accused Monday of plotting to kill a Michigan law enforcement officer and then attack other police at the funeral.
Six Michigan residents, two residents of Ohio and an Indiana resident were indicted by a federal grand jury in [...]

Alexander Reyes’ boyhood dream of a military career ended when he was hit by an improvised explosive device during a patrol two years ago in Baghdad.
“Laying in that hospital bed … sometimes I felt I’d rather [have] died,” Reyes said. “My life came to a complete halt.”
Reyes sustained severe blast injuries that led to his [...]

These days, they are still out there, but they have rivals in the realm of zealotry: people who do watch television — sometimes plenty of it — but don’t own a cable box.
Those who belong to this crowd are only too happy to remind you that they can watch most of what you watch, but [...]

Ten years ago Blackley, who is from Melbourne, Australia, was found to have attention deficit disorder and was given a prescription for Adderall, a psychostimulant that some believe has been abused by some baseball players as a way of sneaking performance-enhancing amphetamines into their bloodstream to boost energy levels during games.
Adderall is banned in baseball [...]

Did Ryan Seacrest, 35, let down the fourth estate — or at least the fashion slice of it — when he failed to ask that question while interviewing many of the arriving celebrities on E!’s pre-Oscar show last Sunday?
Yes, according to the bloggerati, many of whom were dissing him even as the two-hour show “Live [...]

After four months locked in a New Jersey immigration jail facing deportation, Qing Hong Wu, 29, was told by guards to pack his things on Tuesday evening. Fearing that he was being abruptly transferred to a detention center in Texas or Louisiana, like many detainees with families in New York City, Mr. Wu asked other [...]

Washington (CNN) — Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Bourland hugged his wife, Peggy, goodbye and headed out for his two-day mission.
The date was January 12, and the destination was Haiti.
Neither knew it would be the last time they’d see one another.
Upon his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Ken Bourland sent his wife an e-mail saying he had [...]