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The pair of soldier's shoes is battered and hard-worn; a hole in one leather sole suggests the many miles trudged en route to battle with a rifled musket and canteen....

At Newswalk, a 168-unit condominium building in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood, doormen have for years let residents know they have packages by putting little yellow sticky notes on their mailboxes....

Cervical cancer, which can be prevented by a vaccine or detected early by Pap smears, kills 33,000 women in Latin America and the Caribbean a year, according to a recent...

When Scotland Yard disrupted what it called a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives in August 2006, officials in Britain and the United States said the deadliest...

Nas "UNTITLED" RATING: 2 1/2 EXCLAMATION POINTS Nas is a martyr of his own making, from his shortsighted proclamations about the death of hip-hop and his steadfast resistance to radio-friendliness...

You already know that if you exercise outside on hot and humid days, you should drink plenty of water. And you are probably well aware of the risk of heat...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Sudan's tense capital Sunday in a carefully choreographed protest against the expected request by the International Criminal Court to arrest President Omar...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a fondness for magazines. The New Yorker is often among the titles at the front of his campaign plane. This week's issue, though, is...

Alarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration on Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package. The deal would...

The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, according to administration and military officials, raising the prospect of a more ambitious plan...