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Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand A Novel of Adam and Eve By Gioconda Belli Harper, 210 pages, $23.99 The creation story is the best improv exercise ever invented....

The Face on Your Plate The Truth about Food By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson W.W. Norton, 288 pages, $24.95 Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson wants to help all meat eaters wake up from...

ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- It was a brazen assault, not just because it targeted the city's police station but for the choice of weapon: grenades. The Feb. 21 attack on police...

Morton Lachman, one of the creative minds behind Bob Hope who was a writer and producer for the famous comedian for more than two decades before shifting into sitcom production...

Betsy Blair, an actress best remembered for playing the shy, plain-Jane schoolteacher who meets Ernest Borgnine's lonely Bronx butcher at the Stardust Ballroom in the 1955 movie "Marty," has died....

At a time of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, two American TV journalists and their guide were taken into North Korean custody while shooting video near the sensitive border...

Martin P. "Marty" Knowlton, a world traveler who fought ageism by co-founding Elderhostel, a program that pioneered learning vacations for mature adults, has died. He was 88. Mr. Knowlton died...

Two months after ending its assault on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army was confronted Thursday by the first public allegations from within its ranks of unwarranted killings and other...

Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers have developed an electric laser capable of producing a deadly 100-kilowatt ray of light, a major milestone that is expected to help transform what once was...

Jack Lawrence, a songwriter who wrote the lyrics for hits such as "All or Nothing at All," "Tenderly" and "Beyond the Sea," has died. He was 96. Mr. Lawrence, who...