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Family history buffs to descend on Salt Lake City in late April for 4 genealogy conferences. Even after almost 30 years of research, Jan Alpert still gets goose bumps when she discovers a new branch on her family tree.

Peter Graves dies; found drama success with 'Mission: Impossible'; comic hit with 'Airplane'. Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.

Neil Patrick Harris goes to the dogs for PBS documentary on service pups airing in April. Neil Patrick Harris is the narrator of a PBS documentary exploring the bond between service dogs and those they help.

Health summit gives Obama chance to direct his own televised debate, but did anybody tune in?. Barack Obama has long seem preoccupied with his presidency's dissection by cable TV talk show hosts. With his health care summit, he effectively became one.

Barack Obama has long seem preoccupied with his presidency's dissection by cable TV talk show hosts. With his health care summit, he effectively became one.

Concerned by a rise in food allergies, Massachusetts health authorities plan this summer to start requiring that restaurant staff and their menus address diners' potential adverse reactions to nuts, dairy products, and other ingredients that can make pulses race and lungs tighten. Under regulations unveiled yesterday by the state Department of Public Health, thousands of restaurant workers would undergo training and then return to their kitchens, sharing lessons on how to prevent dishes from being contaminated with allergy-inducing ingredients. Every menu in the state would be emblazoned with this admonition: ``Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.'' Statistics suggest servers could be hearing that a lot. It is estimated that 12 million Americans suffer from food allergies, spawning as many as 125,000 emergency room visits a year, and, on rare occasions, deaths. For reasons that remain murky, the prevalence of those condition

Concerned by a rise in food allergies, Massachusetts health authorities plan this summer to start requiring that restaurant staff and their menus address diners' potential adverse reactions to nuts, dairy products, and other ingredients that can make pulses race and lungs tighten. Under regulations unveiled yesterday by the state Department of Public Health, thousands of restaurant workers would undergo training and then return to their kitchens, sharing lessons on how to prevent dishes from being contaminated with allergy-inducing ingredients. Every menu in the state would be emblazoned with this admonition: ``Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.'' Statistics suggest servers could be hearing that a lot. It is estimated that 12 million Americans suffer from food allergies, spawning as many as 125,000 emergency room visits a year, and, on rare occasions, deaths. For reasons that remain murky, the prevalence of those condition

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Louis Gossett Jr, best known for his Oscar-winning role as the tough drill instructor in "An Officer and a Gentleman," said on Tuesday he was fighting prostate cancer.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Louis Gossett Jr, best known for his Oscar-winning role as the tough drill instructor in "An Officer and a Gentleman", said on Tuesday he was fighting prostate cancer.

Great Scott! Genealogists say Obama, GOP's Brown share family ties despite party differences. It was bad enough that President Barack Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican. Now it turns out he also lost it to a relative.

George Stephanopoulos learns of likely genetic link to Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Stephanopoulos has learned that he may be genetically linked to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

George Stephanopoulos learns of likely genetic link to Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Stephanopoulos has learned that he may be genetically linked to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

PASADENA, Calif. - A late-night talk show host going prime time? It didn't exactly work for Jay Leno, but Tavis Smiley isn't worried. That's mainly because he won't have an hour to fill every night. ``Tavis Smiley Reports'' is a series of quarterly prime-time specials for PBS. The first, in which the LA-based host travels with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 2. The second installment examines Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic anti-Vietnam speech and its contemporary resonance, and in the third, Smiley teams with Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme for a look at New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (The fourth episode's topic has yet to be announced.) Smiley recently met with reporters here to discuss the series. Q. Having spent so much time traveling with her, what did you learn about Secretary of State Clinton? A. [I learned] very quickly that the job is harder than I thought. I've interviewed seven secretaries

Rep. Barney Frank calls for replacement of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. A top lawmaker on Capitol Hill is calling for the elimination of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the establishment of a new system to provide money for U.S. home loans.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC may have put a public relations nightmare behind it with the departure of "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien, but the network faces a long, costly road to revive its sagging fortunes, media analysts said.

Portrait of macabre author Edgar Allan Poe shows a younger, vigorous scholar on the rise. Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years ? and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The NBC executive who has overseen the network's decline in recent years said on Monday he showed "guts" and "leadership" by shaking up the network's late-night programing -- a disastrous move that will likely send talk-show host Conan O'Brien to a rival broadcaster.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The NBC executive who has overseen the network's decline in recent years said on Monday he showed "guts" and "leadership" by shaking up the network's late-night programing -- a disastrous move that will likely send talk-show host Conan O'Brien to a rival broadcaster.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Willie Nelson has teamed with prolific producer T Bone Burnett for "Country Music."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of a U.S. congressional panel said he wants to see all of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's communications about the Federal Reserve's payouts to counterparties of insurer AIG Inc at 100 cents on the dollar after a government bailout.