For 20 hours Gao Ying lay in the rubble of her school in China’s Sichuan province last spring.
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Review: ‘Star Trek’ is exhilarating
Did somebody just reach through the space-time continuum and pull out a white rabbit?
Hong Kong hotel guests remain in quarantine
The mood at Hong Kong’s Metropark Hotel was subdued Thursday — but only because most of the guests were in their rooms nursing hangovers from a night of partying the evening before. And with good reason
Sarkozy’s Big Plans for a Greater Paris
The frightful Battle of Paris that many observers expected has been averted — at least for now.
Best-selling author shaped by cannibals, Christianity
Ted Dekker spent his formative years living with cannibals.
Forget Math. Women Lag in Becoming English Professors!
So much for the theory that maternity leave and childrearing are responsible for slowing women’s climb up the employment ladder. Despite increasing efforts to mint more female professors in recent years, a new report from the Modern Language Association of America shows that women take longer than men to get promoted from associate professor to full professor — regardless of whether they are married or have children.
Official White House photographer gets inside view
It’s early April, and President Obama is on his way to France with the nation’s top diplomat at his side.
Have Archaeologists Found the Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra?
History’s most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp. Ancient historians chronicled the act, Shakespeare dramatized it, and HBO even added its own to spin to the tragedy with the lavish TV series “Rome.” Yet while we may know how Cleopatra died of snake poison, after her consort Mark Antony fell on his sword, archaeologists have yet to pin down where the legendary couple was laid to rest.
Is it OK to change oil at chain shop?
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner: Dear Tom, I own a 2008 Ford Taurus.
Dieters’ Self-Control: Why You Make Bad Choices
On the list of things we’re supposed to do but generally don’t, nothing ranks higher than eating well. And no wonder, considering that they keep changing the rules on us.