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The claim: Super Glue can heal wounds. The facts: Call it the secret life of Super Glue. During the Vietnam War, emergency medics began using the all-purpose glue to seal...

When Glenn Gould died unexpectedly in 1982, a victim of a stroke at the unseemly age of 50, his red-hot reputation had calmed to a simmer. Gould, a sufferer from...

Heather Kuzmich has the neurological disorder known as Asperger's syndrome. She is socially awkward, has trouble making eye contact and is sometimes the target of her roommates' jokes. But what...

He has said it over and over again, in increasingly somber and urgent terms, to anyone who would listen. But former Vice President Al Gore used the occasion of his...

Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea, blackening beaches, coating birds and oysters in...

Hundreds of students at the University of Southern Maine have been barred from its campuses here and in nearby Gorham over mumps vaccinations. The Maine Center for Disease Control and...

Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, waiting as long as three years for...

Adding a cultural wrinkle to the diplomatic engagement between the United States and North Korea, the New York Philharmonic plans to visit Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in February, taking...

John Strugnell, a respected biblical scholar at Harvard University whose tenure as the chief editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ended in controversy over anti-Semitic remarks he made, has died...

Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea, blackening beaches, coating birds and oysters in...