With two major lakes and about 100 inches of snow a year, this Western Maine town is a winter playground.

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A spa weekend in your vacation home can focus on one very important client.

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Two Manhattanites learn that with a good eye, patience and a high-speed Internet connection, anything is possible.

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The Catamount Trail attracts skiers who want an affordable and athletic alternative to resort-based skiing.

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For the second time in a week, a team of scientists announced it had found an antibody that attacks both seasonal flu virus and the H5N1 pandemic flu strains.

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President Obama’s budget would make a down payment toward his goal of covering the uninsured, and he would pay for it in part by cutting federal payments to hospitals, insurance companies and drug companies.

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Some experts say the debate about a Medtronic heart device would not exist if efforts to develop a national database of patients who get heart devices had received more support.

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Supporters of stem-cell research said they had reintroduced a Senate bill that would allow federal financing for human embryonic stem-cell research, in anticipation of President Obama’s support for the work.

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Outside of Carnaval week each February, when the emphasis is decidedly on the present, this coastal city seems almost obsessed with its African past.

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