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The next time you walk into a hotel, close your eyes, listen and inhale. There may even be a water fountain you can run your fingers through or a treat...

Why would some people willingly spend decades -- and hundreds of thousands of dollars -- renovating houses they will never own? For a small but growing number of so-called resident...

When Tom Glavine, a star pitcher for the New York Mets, earned his milestone 300th victory on a hot and humid night last month, he had a secret weapon. It...

The Bush administration stepped up its confrontation with the ruling junta in Myanmar on Friday, and officials said they were searching for ways to persuade China and other nations to...

Lenore Tawney, an artist whose monumental sculptural weavings redefined the possibilities of sculpture and weaving in the second half of the 20th Century and helped create the genre of fiber...

The United States, Britain and France chose unity over speed and agreed to delay until November a UN Security Council vote on a third sanctions resolution against Iran. The delay,...

Andre Emmerich, an influential Manhattan art dealer whose gallery was an early champion of the 1950s and '60s school of Color Field painting and who also mounted important shows of...

Harvey Fehrenkamp has been a dancer as far back as he can remember. When he was a little boy, his father used to give him 50 cents just to watch...

Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers and other Interior Ministry officials throughout Iraq, with at least 10 attacks in 48 hours....

Women who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day double their risk of endometrial cancer compared with those who drink less, a new study finds. Researchers examined a multiethnic...