Sarintip “Jazz” Singsanong came to Los Angeles in 1979 with $200 and a suitcase. Like many immigrants, she also came with a head full of recipes from her village–in this case, Pak Panang in southern Thailand. Among her 12 siblings, she was known for her cooking: “Everything I make, I make delicious,” she says. One [...]

Crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies are reinsurance companies that, for a fee, insure policies sold by other insurers, essentially to spread the risk. A founding father of Singapore’s reinsurance industry is Hwang Soo Jin, 72 years old, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at Singapore Reinsurance Corp., or Singapore Re as it is [...]

Are you an underwear woman or do you wear lingerie? Do you like a flattened backside line or perky pert buttocks? Do you want a waist (again)? Is your pot belly ruining the line of your skirts? How about cleavage? Obvious? Subtle? Hopeful? If you were run over by a bus would you want to [...]

Crose had hoped the big lake might yield a fish. Or two.
She didn’t expect the expedition to end at Wal-Mart, where the family bought two 15-gallon coolers just to keep the piles of freshly carved fillets from rotting on the drive home to Des Moines.
“Oh, my goodness,” the 40-year-old mother of two says of the [...]