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After 15 years of self-imposed isolation, Iran is searching for ways to come out of the diplomatic cold. The reasons are largely economic. Iran is broke, and the Islamic Revolution...

In 1922, the American Medical Association called for an annual physical for all adults, including the healthy. Today the concept is as outdated as long-playing records. Replacing the annual checkup...

They seem to have arrived by spontaneous combustion, these Utah Utes. Utah's was a long-dormant program that somehow caught lightning in a sideline water bottle and inexplicably emerged as a...

A man kills his wife, mother and children and disappears. A year later, someone has bought his attractive, contemporary house in an upscale Maryland suburb. An elderly woman is beaten...

The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of a Continent By William H. MacLeish Houghton Mifflin, 277 pages, $21.95 `The Day Before America" is titled a bit modestly. William MacLeish...

Body of Knowledge By Carol Dawson Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 471 pages, $22.95 It's the way of the world to confuse us with love, which it does by encouraging...

When the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics shut down in 1993, it promised to keep an eye on the reform movement. The commission promised that should it sense an attack...

Take out the garbage . . . do the dishes . . . make a bed . . . pick up a room . . . mow the lawn. How,...

You're at Chez Frou Frou enjoying a delectable but complicated meal, and he says it again: "Why can't you make stuff like this at home?" Because you don't have $20,000...

Our feeling about personal space runs deep-so deep, in fact, that it is part of our survival instinct. To be disoriented within a space is to be, by definition, psychotic,...