By Nancy Stancill | Home and Garden Editor
| October 12, 2008
Could your granite countertops emit enough radon gas to make you sick? A recent New York Times story set off alarms over the issue, but federal and state officials, granite sellers and local radon testers say they strongly doubt it. However, nobody is willing to say that all granite is radon-free.
By Pam Kelley | Reading Life Editor
| October 12, 2008
Just a few years ago, Khaled Hosseini was a physician living a quiet life with his family in California. That changed almost overnight in 2003 with the publication of “The Kite Runner,” the story of two boys living in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion.
Chicago Tribune
| October 7, 2008
The top places to drink a beer.
