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A new advocacy group tied to agriculture company Monsanto is trying to stop the proliferation of milk from cows not treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone. The group, called American...

Why does it often seem that men enjoy playing video games more than women? Perhaps because they do. A new study finds that when men play the games, a part...

High school seniors across America are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of much solace to them,...

Manorexia. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge eating disorder. All are dangerous variations on the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs,...

Colleen Sammis recalls that "it came out at a restaurant" in early 2006. She, the man she later married and friends were having dinner, "and they were talking about a...

A thousand dollars, or even $500, can go a long way toward transforming a room -- and your attitude toward your home. Whether it's contemporary lamp shades or new doors,...

A lawsuit filed Thursday in a New York federal court by Latino immigrants seeks to force immigration authorities to complete hundreds of thousands of stalled naturalization petitions in time for...

After Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment on Jan. 22, David Granger, the editor in chief of Esquire magazine, dispatched a writer named Lisa Taddeo to report...

Ramon M. Barquin, a respected Cuban army officer whose struggles to restore the rule of law in Cuba clashed with dictator Fulgencio Batista and later the revolutionary government of Fidel...

Dr. Peter Neubauer, a child psychiatrist and researcher who raised public alarms early on about the possible effects of television violence on the emotional development of children, died Feb. 15...