Can money buy your kids a bigger brain?
Research has shown that a person's position in the economic pecking order can have a lasting effect on cognitive development. But can it also affect the size and shape of...
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Clever crows have a favorite side for tools, study finds
Crows are more clever than you might think. They use tools to get food and can remember human faces. It turns out that crows also have a preference for the...
Dallas nurses describe Ebola hospital care: ‘There was no protocol’
A Liberian man who arrived by ambulance at a Dallas hospital with symptoms of Ebola sat for "several hours" in a room with other patients before being put in isolation,...
Giant virus revived from deep freeze in Siberian tundra
A 30,000-year-old giant virus has been revived from the frozen Siberian tundra, sparking concern that increased mining and oil drilling in rapidly warming northern latitudes could disturb dormant microbial life...
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISIONDIWANIYAH, Iraq–The U.S….
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION DIWANIYAH, Iraq--The U.S. paratroopers were wringing their hands in frustration while the 12 sheiks and civic leaders of Diwaniyah kept chattering in Arabic. "Are these...
War dispatches
WITH THE 1st MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN CENTRAL IRAQ--Clad in green camouflage vestments, Rev. William Devine knelt in the red mud and whispered a private prayer. As chaplain for the...
War dispatches
Far above Iraq, Lt. Cmdr. Zeno Rausa looked down on two rivers of light streaming toward Baghdad. "The troops have swept so far north. It seemed to me there were...
Freelance tree sitter helps suburbanites tackle sprawl
To construction workers hammering away at new houses, John Quigley is just "a crazy dude." But the quixotic tree sitter who has vowed to save an ancient oak from bulldozers...
In Calif., nonvoters express disgust
Since 1956, Robert Gamm had made the trek to the voting booth. He never missed a general election. He never missed a primary. Until Tuesday. "I'm really disgusted," said Gamm,...
Body in Karachi not missing Pearl
In the latest twist to theenigmatic case of kidnapped American journalist Daniel Pearl, police investigators rushed to a hospital in this port city early Monday only to find that a...