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It was a remarkable cello, with an equally remarkable pedigree, and by all accounts it was primed to draw a record price as serious bidding began Friday morning on the...

Now there's a bright idea. Motion sensors ensure that unoccupied offices, storerooms and canteens go dark after workers and cleaning crews leave at night. Dimmers soften overhead lights that once...

Chinese regulators said over the weekend they had confiscated and destroyed more than 3,600 tons of animal feed tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical that has contaminated food supplies in...

Q. I have painted my bathroom, including portions of the three walls above the shower unit, and everything is pretty good except for those three walls above the shower. The...

During the past decade, white working-class men and women have received far more attention from presidential candidates than they have from purveyors of a certain kind of upmarket popular culture...

With the economy reeling, Amy Birnbaum, a Broadway production assistant who lives in New York, wasn't planning to take a winter vacation until after the holidays, when prices typically are...

William Wharton, a successful impressionist painter who at 53 published his first novel, "Birdy," which won a National Book Award, became a critically acclaimed movie and led to a dozen...

Striking new evidence has emerged of a widespread gap in the cost of insurance, as women pay much more than men of the same age for individual health insurance policies...

Robert Furman, a former Army major who as chief of foreign intelligence for the American atomic bomb project in World War II coordinated and often joined harrowing espionage missions to...

Estelle Reiner, who as the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner was the matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy, and who delivered...