I’d like to throttle whoever invented the Tooth Fairy. I hate that nocturnal bicuspid-thieving creature more than any other mythical being I pretend to be for my children, mostly because I’m really bad at it. Being Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are easy. Holiday shrapnel is all over my house to remind me about the job I have to do. But a tooth is tiny. A tooth is random. A tooth gets buried under a pillow hours before I ever think about calling it a day, and most days I

When you're working in the world's second oldest profession, it might be difficult to imagine honest-to-goodness innovation is even possible. After all, farmers have been honing their ability to coax every last bushel of crop from the land for millennia, and the promise that some newfangled gadget or machine can help them do it better, faster, and cheaper can only be regarded with a healthy dose of skepticism. Still, the last couple of centuries have seen a handful of inventi

Travelers wanting to visit Cuba need this primer on how to manage in a country that is likely unlike anywhere else they've ever been, from the food to the money exchange to the scams.