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Big wooden planters full of ripe tomatoes. Homemade pickles. Over good wine and grilled steak at the home of Chris and Hugh Hempel, in the hills around Reno, Nevada, the conversation turns to biomedical research and genetics.

Chances are you have a vegan in your life -- a real dyed-in-the-natural-fiber-cruelty-free-wool vegan for whom all animal products are off limits. And perhaps that vegan is threatening a visit to your Thanksgiving table this year.

Victoria's Secret changed an ad campaign that was getting criticized online.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen searches for remnants of the Berlin Wall, once an iconic symbol of the Cold War.

Ah, the kiss. It can be so many things: sweet, loving, awkward, intense, transporting, disappointing, boring, sublime, life altering.

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.

Menopause: the permanent end of fertility (and periods!) that commonly happens to women in their late 40s and 50s. For many women, just saying the word "menopause" can increase anxiety levels.

October 22 will mark 25 years since my son Jacob was taken from his family as he rode his bike home with his brother and a friend on a rural Minnesota road.

After years spent fighting in some of the world's worst wars, former U.S. Navy SEAL Kristin Beck says she knows what she wants.

Some things are just better after dark.

"I just love it when I get milk-to-dark converts," says Kerrin Rousset, as she prepares to lead a small cocoa-hungry crowd through the narrow streets of Zurich's Old Town.

A hotel is demolished in Albany, New York, with a colorful fireworks show. WRGB reports.

Mobile phones and apps become crucial to the next generation of campus safety services. Karin Caifa explains.

Stressed colleagues, traffic jams, pollution.

During the 10 years since it's launch, Cassini has revealed much about Saturn.

Sarah Palin is again going rogue -- this time to the digital world, with the creation of her own online news channel.

Forget the new black. This is the real black.

It's 5:55 p.m. on a warm summer evening on Hanami-Koji Street in Kyoto's historic Gion district. A dozen or so camera-clutching tourists line both sides of the cobblestone road, waiting for that magical moment.