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Thom Mayne of Morphosis in Los Angeles designed a house that would float if the city floods. James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia created a house with native vines...

"I was a hairdresser until a couple of years ago," Gail Simone said. "It took me a long time to admit that I was a professional writer." Simone was talking...

Bill and Hillary Clinton have been in career-threatening scrapes before, but never quite like the one they face in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, when nothing less than their...

President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the CIA and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas...

Marie-Jeanne, an American ballerina long associated with George Balanchine and a member of the New York City Ballet during its first season, has died. She was 87. The cause of...

Grapefruit, cabbage soup and maple syrup have had their moments. Now a new weight-loss ingredient is all the rage: Rage. "Skinny Bitch," a diet book that is political, profane, passionately...

Reality television doesn't rise to challenges. The whole genre is decidedly homemade, a little lazy even, bailing on the need for scripts and actors, for riffs and romps. That makes...

The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes...

In the last of the four one-act plays by Samuel Beckett at the New York Theater Workshop, Mikhail Baryshnikov sits on an iron bed in a tatty red plaid bathrobe...

Some exterior colors go in and out of fashion, but uninterrupted black has seldom been a popular choice. That doesn't bother Ed Reeve, whose inky new house lurks among the...