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The lunch table was full of people in the same boat: single mothers who are trainees in the hydraulics and pipe-fitting trades, thrown together and traveling to a place none...

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then try to be beheld by a feminist. A new study finds that women who describe themselves as feminists are more...

A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Baghdad's Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against the Shiite militias. The...

Lauren Zalaznick, the woman behind the surging success of cable television's Bravo network, is in many ways a model of the channel's viewers: She is wealthy, well educated and attentive...

For all those adults who have ever wondered what after-shave lotions and lipsticks are made of, you can't beat the insistent querying of a 5th-grader. "Do they really use whale...

John Wheeler, a visionary physicist and teacher who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission, gave black holes their name and argued about the nature of reality with Albert Einstein...

Silvio Berlusconi, the idiosyncratic billionaire who already dominates much of Italy's public life, snatched back political power in elections that ended Monday, heading a center-right coalition certain to make him...

Jackie Warner, the fitness trainer whose seesaw love life is chronicled in the Bravo reality series "Work Out," is maneuvering though a dark, half-built gym in Hollywood. Warner has plans...

Tucked into the corner of a boutique diagonally across the street from Oprah Winfrey's studios in the West Loop is a piece of custom-made furniture meant to evoke the feeling...

Dutch Harbor, a fishing port in this town on a pair of islands in the middle of the Aleutians, may be the bleakest, wildest frontier left in America. There used...