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Sun Yaoting was 8 when his father castrated him with a single swoop of a razor. The year was 1911, and China was in turmoil. Just a few months later,...

At this stage of "Lost," no one actually believed that the character John Locke (played by Terry O'Quinn) would remain dead, but still, it's satisfying to see him alive again....

Social scientists have always warned that once a person's basic needs are met, money doesn't buy happiness. But if you're wondering, or maybe even arguing over, what to do with...

Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has...

Buried under two months of winter in Buffalo, Kim Kramer could take no more. "I came home and said, 'I've got to get out of here,'" said Kramer, 44, a...

Borrowing a cut-and-paste trick from bacteria, scientists have created for patients the first personalized stem cells free of the cancer-causing viruses and genes needed to make them, according to a...

George McAfee, who was an explosive threat playing both offense and defense for the Bears in the 1940s, died Wednesday in Durham, N.C., at age 90. Duke University, where Mr....

Director Zack Snyder has said he labored to adapt faithfully the groundbreaking graphic novel "Watchmen" so comic book fanatics would not be disappointed. Whether other audiences will be as enthusiastic...

Want a personal piece of the $787 billion stimulus pie? Don't look for it in online ads that promise individuals a share of the money. They're scams, warned the Federal...

I would rather quaff turpentine than Pepsi, and yet I remain sentimental about the brand. As it happens, Pepsi-Cola was invented in 1898 in my hometown of New Bern, N.C....