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Nick Scandone, a sailor who won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China six years after having been stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, died Friday at his...

"You've caught me with my pants on," Hugh Hefner said with a sad smirk. There are days (or entire decades) when Hefner greets the midday sun in silk pajamas and...

Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez and John Adams, died Saturday of pancreatic...

President George W. Bush created three national monuments in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, protecting waters near U.S.-controlled islands that contain a rich diversity of corals, fish and other sea...

"Human kind cannot bear very much reality," T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Wasteland," but regarding the television kind we apparently have not yet reached our limit. This first full week...

After fighting with record labels over its everything-for-99-cents stance, Apple on Tuesday said it would start offering different songs at different prices. Apple is the No. 1 music seller in...

With the U.S. caught in limbo between two presidencies, Europe is trying to fill the diplomatic void by assuming a greater role in the international effort to end the bloodshed...

Last week, I received the Golden Ticket of journalistic invitations: a summons to Prince's mansion, high atop Mulholland Drive, to hear the new music he'll be releasing sometime after the...

The holiday season is also the season for Oscar blurbs, the only real difference being that the Oscar blurb season keeps going long after we've opened the gifts, celebrated the...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one...