Coffee was once considered an everyday commodity by most Americans, but now it's not uncommon to see folks spend several dollars at Starbucks for a cup of java. The same phenomenon has hit the world ...

The chief executive of Select Comfort Corp. comes bounding across the Sleep Number store in Edina with her hand extended. “Shelly Ibach, 35,” she says. That number is not her age. It indicates the ...

(This story originally appeared in the June 2005 issue of Consumer Reports.) Many of the estimated 70 million Americans who complain of sleeplessness have turned their backs on conventional ...