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"Scrubs," the surrealist hospital sitcom that spent seven seasons as a stepchild of NBC's schedule, has come close to cancellation more times than its creator, Bill Lawrence, cares to remember....

Baghdad's isolated, fortified Green Zone reverts to Iraqi control with the turn of the new year. The turnover Thursday is part of the recent security agreement with the United States....

Alvah H. Chapman Jr., the former publisher of The Miami Herald, chairman of the Knight Ridder newspapers and one of South Florida's most influential philanthropic and civic leaders, has died...

You have what seems to be a really bad cold. You are coughing and sneezing, and it is hard to breathe. Should you work out? And if you do, should...

A decade ago, a trainer at Ball State University, Thomas Weidner, wondered what he should tell athletes about exercising when they got colds. Thus researchers began a study asking two...

A defining moment of the Cold War came in 1955 when Moscow detonated its first hydrogen bomb -- a weapon roughly a thousand times more powerful than atom bombs and...

Abdullahi Yusuf, the cantankerous president of beleaguered Somalia, resigned Monday. The question now is, will it make a difference? Could it be the death knell of Somalia's transitional government, whose...

Al Meyerhoff, a leading labor, environmental and civil rights lawyer who brought a landmark case to stop sweatshop conditions for 30,000 workers on the Pacific island of Saipan, died Dec....

The first night Jules Javernick and Keith Brunel spent in their new house was more like a wildlife adventure than a dream come true. When the couple lived in Denver,...

With its forthright prose, little-before-discussed-in-the-suburbs erotic advice and amusing pictures of an ardent naked person known popularly as the Hairy Man, "The Joy of Sex" was a revolution in its...