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Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007...

Call it Lance Armstrong vs. France, Round ... ? Actually, who can keep accurate track of how many times the cyclist and French anti-doping officials have stepped in the ring....

This winter, while it is too cold to garden, I will be counting birds for Project FeederWatch, a survey run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in Ithaca, N.Y., and...

The design of Bill Armstrong's cottage in Roxbury, Vt., is reminiscent of a child's first rendering of a house: a rectangular box with a triangle roof on top and a...

Mike Huben spends enough time working with flowers and thinking about flowers and savoring their blooms from February to November that one might think his small plot of earth would...

When Anne Baker graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1975, she was pleased to be hired as a birth control counselor for a Planned Parenthood clinic, though it was not...

For many, a dream house means lavish materials and abundant space. But Paul and Lee Pierson envisioned something simpler. They preferred solid, sustainable building blocks and just enough space --...

Before a recent photo shoot in London, U2 frontman Bono wanted to know what kind of walk the band should use for pose. After a discussion, the band started a...

Making U2's latest album, "No Line on the Horizon," wasn't easy. The result of a convoluted two-year process, it presents a band that still is restless and impassioned, kicking formulas...

Sixty percent of baseball fans are bothered by players' steroid use, and 44 percent say Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez should not be allowed in the Hall of Fame, according...