St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation

Age: 70. Family: My wife, Lucy, and my sister, Ida. Where I live and for how long: Leesburg since Christmas. Defining moment: Church -- when I saw the light. My exercise routine includes: Swimming -- water aerobics. What makes a perfect world: Peace....

As we move toward the election of a new president this fall, Perspective offers a periodic look at our presidents—from Washington to Bush—and how they shaped our nation. Oct. 14, 1890 — March 28, 1969 State: Kansas Religion:...

Grant Park is sending some very mixed messages to pedestrians—"the foot people," as the late, great urbanologist Jane Jacobs called them. On the one hand, the lot of the pedestrian experience has been improving in the most central of Chicago's...

For nearly 30 years, the Port Welcome supplied plenty of memories for Baltimoreans who jammed its decks for proms, class trips, office parties, bar mitzvahs, moonlights, and cruises to Betterton, Tolchester and Annapolis. While not the most attractive-...

During summer the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, just 600 miles from the North Pole, comes alive with wildflowers, walruses, reindeer, arctic foxes and most especially polar bears. It is the polar bear -- called isbjorn or ice bear in Norwegian --...

SOUTHEAST ASIA Discover the steamy allure of some of the world's newest vacation hot spots on 16-day tours to the legendary kingdoms of Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). The Southeast Asia tours, offered Oct. 14, Dec. 30 and Feb. 3, will visit the...

In three months, downtown Chicago will get one of the most significant additions to its outdoor gallery of public art in decades, yet while the abstract sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor has been in the works for five years, few people in town know...

In his autobiography, Martin notes that if Grace had been well, the company might have taken the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. But in 1957, the company dropped its appeal of the ruling, after Grace suffered his first stroke and Homer replaced him as...

First of two parts Buffalo -- On the old southside of the former grain capital of the world, the air is fragrant with the toasted scent of Cheerios baking in the General Mills plant. Come lunchtime, neighborhood taverns still pack them in for beef on...