Finding fashionable wide shoes can be a challenge for women.

On a cool, misty June morning in 2008, Frank Reed pulled into the parking lot of the Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn.   He began to unpack what he remembers as “about a hundred pounds of nautical almanacs” from his car, which he’d driven from his home in Chicago.  Reed had come to Mystic to lead a biennial conference on celestial navigation — the second such conference he had organized.  Although the conference drew only a few dozen participants, it was widely considered a great success among the small but devoted community …

General Motors will have a new electric car in showrooms by the end of 2010. The company famous for “killing” the electric car a decade ago is working to win back the original electric car buffs.

Planning for emergencies often takes a back seat to the daily running of a business. But proper planning can mean the difference between being back in business quickly, or not being able to reopen at all.