IT IS MINUTES before 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in Berkeley and already a line is forming in front of a white plastic table at Three Stone Hearth, a community-suppo rted kitchen near the city's waterfront.

MIAMI -- Though a hot, devilish moon is known to loom over this city, we safely can assume it won't belong to a Chicago Bear. Such was the ongoing concern the last time the boys were in a Super Bowl, specifically the acupunctured hind end of Jim McMahon, who flashed helicopters when he wasn't questioning the sexual mores of New Orleans women.

FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) -- Deutsche Telekom has issued a second profit warning in six months, blaming fierce competition in Germany and the weak U.S. dollar for a cut of up to 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) from 2007 forecasts.

A century after that zenith of classical architecture, the Parthenon, was replicated to full scale in Nashville, the city's design scene is making room for contemporary homes.

WATERLOO --- After completing the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo later designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

In December 1948, in his newspaper column "The Seventh Column," Nathan Alterman wrote how impressed he was by the archaeological excavation at Tel Qasile, the first to be conducted in the new State of Israel, which had attained independence the previous May. He could visualize the ancient Israeli housewife's kitchen and naturally connected the tel (which in Hebrew literally means "hill" ; or ...

Dan Saxon Palmer, an architect who with his partner, William Krisel, designed Modernist tract homes that provided the building blocks for Southern California's suburban boom in the 1950s, has died. He was 86.