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Steve Abrams, owner of Magnolia Bakery, dropped out of college one semester in. Would his life be different with a degree?
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Steve and Danny Abrams have owned restaurants and bars in New York City for the past several years. What’s it like being in the same industry as a family member?
The ethics of more than 30 lawmakers and their aides have been under scrutiny, according to a leaked report.
Why do Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh oppose Obama’s healthcare reforms? Ask their wives.
The coronary angiogram was not discovered through scientific skill but via a medical accident.
The economic boats aren’t rising, they’re bobbing, and analysts are being swept away by the tide of numbers, writes the Wall Street Journal.
The political crisis in Honduras could be nearing its end after the de facto government agreed to let the ousted president finish his term.
An artist with autism has drawn an 18-foot picture of New York from memory after a 20-minute flight over the city.
Thousands of juvenile convictions in Pennsylvania have been chucked out following a “jailing kids for cash” scandal concerning a former Luzerne County judge.
Wal-Mart plans to cater to our cradle-to-grave needs—and is now selling coffins.
Spiders find a bloodsucking-by-proxy diet sexy—and it helps control malaria, new research finds.
For the first time in decades NASA will subject monkeys to radiation experiments to test the long-term effects of space travel on humans.
"Nobody who's ever been poor would ever use the phrase 'selling out.'" So said Sherman Alexie, award-winning author of "War Dances," "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," and […]
“If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision,’” Mary McCarthy wrote, “you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.” Calling a course of […]
Today was the last of three days of hearings this week on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), introduced by John Kerry (D-Mass) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) […]
Stories from major newspapers this week have examined this moment of crisis for American foreign policy in the Middle East. Afghanistan is expected to receive more American troops, while a […]
While sustainable agriculture is rapidly becoming one of the looming issues of our time, a myth-based propensity toward naturalness may be stripping the movement of any effectuality.
I am in the heart of Tamil territory. I am surrounded by jungles and tea plantations. A few miles north of me is a camp of 250,000 internally displaced Tamil […]
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A conversation with the award-winning author and chronicler of the Native American experience.
