Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SAN FRANCISCO----Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 takes place January 5 - 9, 2009 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

Why Halsey Minor Can't Have Nice Things (Valleywag)

Dotcom mogul Halsey Minor, the CNET founder, has spent freely on real estate, artwork, and startups. He's having trouble keeping them all. The latest bauble to run aground: San Francisco magazine...

Western Montana life in ’08 - Small towns filled with interesting stories all year-round (Missoulian)

Warren Winter and his wife, Wanda Thorpe, wash and dry puppies taken in by the Thompson River Animal Care Shelter last February in Thompson Falls. The shelter took in 289 cats and dogs in its first year of operation and adopted out 252.

Know your antiques to find auction bargains (San Francisco Chronicle)

Educated collectors find bargains. The more you know, the more likely you are to find a sleeper at a house sale or auction. And it is also important to handle a piece to judge weight, texture and quality. Recently a group of five blown-glass Champagne glasses...

Travel Briefs (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

MARIGOT, St. Martin

BELOVED PETS EVERLASTING? ARE CLONED PETS THE REAL THING? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

BC-CALIF-CLONE-KING-ART-1050&ADD-NYT BELOVED PETS EVERLASTING? ARE CLONED PETS THE REAL THING? By ERIC KONIGSBERG (Eds: Some honorifics were retained for clarity.) (ART ADV: Photos NYT 8-9 are being sent to NYT photo clients.