Q. Last weekend, I was at a party in an apartment packed with people, and two days later, symptoms of the flu came on hard and fast. Now on the fourth day, my fever, which hovered around 100.6 the whole time, has come down to 99.6. My body aches, and the coughing has made my rib cage sore. I ...

Dear Annie: If you had told me five years ago that I would fall in love with my ex-boyfriend’s brother, I would have laughed you out of the room. And yet, here I am. I dated “Mark” for two years. He moved into my home, and even after I ended the relationship, he stayed another six ...

DEAR HELOISE: We’ll be spending hours wrapping Christmas and Hannukah gifts in a few weeks, using a lot of paper sourced from forest trees that would be better left standing. I hate wrapping! I’ve come up with an alternative that has saved me hours of work — and saves trees as well! I ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a male who is 58 years of age. I recently had an MRI of my cervical spine, and just this month, I had a CT scan of my whole abdomen. Since then, I have had symptoms of dry eyes, weight loss and insomnia. I wondered if the contrast dye used for the MRI or CT scan can cause ...

Assume you’re East, defending against three notrump, and West leads the jack of spades. Declarer wins with the queen and plays the king of diamonds, West following suit with the seven. How would you defend the hand? You can’t see declarer’s cards, but it isn’t hard to figure out what ...

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