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Wildwood A Journey Through Trees By Roger Deakin Free Press, 392 pages, $26.95 Can someone tell me why old-fashioned naturalists write so beautifully and present-day environmentalists write so badly? Roger...

It looked nauseating from contact. It screamed wildly right and ricocheted through a brutish array of cactuses and barged to the other side of a barbed-wire fence. Had the rattlesnakes...

Early on an otherwise slow Saturday morning, 16 men drifted into the lobby of a police station in South Los Angeles. They had no crimes to report or friends to...

Lance Reddick doesn't get to smile a lot on the job. As federal agent Phillip Broyles in Fox's hit drama "Fringe," he is icy -- and possibly sinister -- as...

The jet left Baghdad and had just crossed the ribbon of blue indicating the Euphrates River thousands of feet below when it arced back toward the Iraqi capital Wednesday. Upon...

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may well be the most popular politician in Pakistan. So the Supreme Court's decision Wednesday banning him from holding elective office has set the stage...

Ever the resident of some sublime golfing planet with a population of one, Tiger Woods walked into a coronation Wednesday under the weird impression he'd come just to hit an...

Melinda Doolittle had many reasons to let nearly two years pass between the end of her "American Idol" stint and the beginning of her solo recording career. The Season 6...

Even small amounts of alcohol increase the threat of various cancers, according to a new study of more than 1million women. As little as one drink a day increases a...

Even small amounts of alcohol increase the threat of various cancers, according to a new study of more than 1million women. As little as one drink a day increases a...