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SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER Although Citius, altius, fortius ("Swifter, higher, stronger") is the Latin motto of today's Olympic Games, athletes have been striving to improve their athletic sk...

A Passover sermon, a play, anda century of the Melting pot The melting pot metaphor, touchstone of America's debate over immigration, was claimed by the rabbi of a New York City synagogue, who said he...

Athens: Then & Now Imagine you are a citizen of Athens, enjoying a warm Mediterranean night in the Theater of Herodes Atticus. You are wearing jeans and a T-shirt, listening to a great concert.Now...

A robot in the kitchen Matt Mason has seen the future-and it's fun. As director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easi...

Online booksellers face highercosts for shipping abroad THE Postal Service is taking the ship out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for trouble.The post office said la...

Pass the bacteria, please! Bacteria are terribly good for you. So say the promoters of a rapidly growing industry in probiotic products. The title probiotic (for life) is technically reserved for thos...

Up close and edible:Green teaGreen tea is one of the most popular beverages to hit the U.S. market in the last decade. Unlike black tea or oolong, green tea is made from unfermented tea leaves. Becaus...

English as language of global education In the shifting universe of global academia, English is becoming as commonplace as creeping ivy and mortarboards. In the last five years, the world's top busine...

Global warming On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "...

Guilty plea in deadlyTennessee school shootingA 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Tuesday in the killing of a high school official and the wounding of two others under a plea deal announced after jury se...