William Mullen

Back in 1978 a flood in Tennessee rushed through a wholesaler`s warehouse, and dirty water soaked several truckloads of Jockey brand men`s underwear. It seemed a disaster, of course, for...

Kolata began his dig at Luqurmata last summer around the outer perimeters of Luqurmata`s temple buildings on the hill. Three skeletons--two of them headless, the third with no head and...

The first raised fields were discovered in Bolivia in 1961 by William Denevan, a University of Wisconsin geologist, who found them in a tropical lowland area far to the east...

About 400 years ago the first European, probably some Spanish conquistador or missionary priest, laid eyes on the Pampa Koani of Bolivia. History does not record whether that trailblazer lingered...

In the case of an emperor`s death, there would be several days of citywide mourning, while the royal kin gathered from far and wide for the state funeral. The mourning...

It isn`t surprising that many, perhaps the majority, of the Vietnam vets tried to stop thinking about the war. They packed away their memories with their photographs and uniforms. ''The...

How many people turned out to honor the veterans is difficult to pin down. The official estimate is 300,000, though it could have been more, given that it was a...

At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 13, three men left the entrance to Navy Pier and began moving west along Grand Avenue. The three were old soldiers, the point men...

The most compelling evidence of fluoridation`s benefits came from studies conducted in seven Chicago-area towns just before America`s entry into World War II. Dean headed a team that examined the...

Perhaps appropriately, Illinois and Chicago, which have figured so heavily in advances in dentistry in the last century, have now become the center of the most far-reaching thought on how...