Board games — the old-fashioned kind where you sit around a table and actually talk to each other — are doing very well in today's economy and electronic world.

An extra-dark gingerbread crust and dark chocolate glaze make these miniature pumpkin tarts a rich rethinking of the classic Thanksgiving dessert. If desired, accompany them with lightly sweetened whipped cream.

Clinical therapist Margaret Preston believes that working out is key to a woman's mental health. Yet when women go to exercise outside, they shouldn't have to do it alone.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders — and tattoos — exposed. Male models wore long, Islamic robes as well as shorts and sequined T-shirts.

Board games — the old-fashioned kind where you sit around a table and actually talk to each other — are doing very well in today's economy and electronic world.

Clint and Lacey Loumaster of Lenexa, Kan., met in an advanced calculus class. But the husband and wife share more in common than a prowess for complicated math.