If the city is safer than ever, why does rape show so few signs of going away?

Feel like you're getting nickeled-and-dimed by your bank, especially at the ATM? Maybe you are. Here's how to fight back.

Delaware River; May 22-23

Camp out as nature intended on Mount Desert Island

Why go out for exercise when a home gym (or a ride in the park) can cost you less than a year's membership? The only catch: You'll have to wash your own towels.

7 Great Hikes

It was a rough assignment: rubbing elbows with celebrities, lounging around in frette bathrobes, eating Dean & Deluca chocolates from the mini-bar. Rating New York City's new boutique hotels required a connoisseur's eye for mid-century modern furniture and industrial lighting, plus the ability to really understand luxury -- before totally surrendering to it. Difficult, yes. But the boutique hotel is a New York art form and requires close study. We slept around -- so you won't have to.

There's only so far a stationary bike can take you. It's time to get out of the gym and into that Speedo.