Karen Brandon

In 1943, the few people who lived on the treeless plains and buttes of the Columbia River basin here were evicted, a closed community for government workers was created, and...

In a limited ruling Friday, a federal judge barred the University of California from immediately implementing new policies that end affirmative action programs in admission decisions. The order came nine...

Two-thirds of them are men. Almost 90 percent of them are white. They earn more money than most Americans. Meet the delegates to the 1996 Republican National Convention. The profile...

CELESTE BERNARD Four days into the Games, the quality of my Olympic experience hinged on finding a package I needed for deadline and was a day late reaching me. I...

As the centennial year of the Olympic Games and Information Age wizardry converged in Atlanta, the '96 Summer Games were supposed to highlight technological as well as athletic feats. But...

If all goes according to plan, doctors late Thursday will treat Jeff Getty for AIDS in an unprecedented way: They will give him bone marrow cells from a baboon. The...

At long last, someone has tackled India's biggest threat to public health and safety. It is not the contaminated water disguised as "nutritious" spring water and sold in re-sealed plastic...

Alleles. Thermal cycler. Polymerase chain reaction. Restriction fragment length polymorphism. So much for vocabulary. From there, it's on to expert debate about the limits of knowledge in molecular biology and...

Just two weeks ago, few people outside of California had ever heard of Robert Citron. But that was before Orange County became the largest municipal government in history to go...

In the latest twist to one of the nation's most bitterly fought Senate races, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service confirmed Friday that Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein employed an illegal...