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Paleontologists have been lifting fossil bones out of Texas’ rock beds since the late 19th century. Now, after years of exporting these bones to some of the world’s best museums, the state is getting two huge... See More

Next time you find yourself grousing when the passenger in front reclines his seat a smidge too far, consider the astronomers of the Enlightenment. In 1761 and 1769, dozens and dozens of stargazers traveled thousands of ... See More

WHEN and how did the first people arrive in the Americas? For many decades, archaeologists have agreed on an explanation known as the Clovis model. The theory holds that about 13,500 years ago, bands of big-game hunters ... See More

Readers debate if unpaid work is exploitative or beneficial. The Letter To the Editor: Re “ Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships ” (front page, May 6): As a casting director and business owner, I have ... See More

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I WAS born in Germany. My parents divorced when I was 5 and I moved to the United States with my white mother and the black American soldier who became my stepfather. From first through fourth grade I attended school in ... See More

THE blistering pace of advances in automotive technology may be confusing to consumers, but it seems to be creating a strong employment outlook for those who fix cars. According to a forecast by the Bureau of Labor Stati... See More

LIKE many college students, Katherine Bovee, a master’s degree candidate at Ohio State University in Columbus, struggled to find a focus for her undergraduate studies. Wanting to sample a broad range of possibiliti... See More

Seattle I’VE spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The exc... See More

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Amanda Burden, Planning Commissioner, Is Remaking New York City

AMANDA M. BURDEN, in a sheath dress, impossibly thin and with a blond bob reminiscent of the “Mad Men” ’60s, wore a serene smile as she oversaw a recent public hearing in a drab hearing room near City Hall. “Today, I am thrilled to vote on the department’s latest sustai...
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Alex Kurtzman Directs Chris Pine in ‘People Like Us’

Santa Monica, Calif. WHEN Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were hired to rewrite the sequel to a yet-to-be-released reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, they were given one major directive. Mr. Kurtzman refers to it as “the big idea.” “It’s one of those things that, well, we rea...
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OP-ED COLUMNIST; Here Comes Nobody

WASHINGTON I ALWAYS liked that the name of my religion was also an adjective meaning all-embracing. I was a Catholic and I wanted to be catholic, someone engaged in a wide variety of things. As James Joyce wrote in “Finnegans Wake:” “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.&rsqu...
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Revisiting a Decline in Minority College Basketball Coaches

African-Americans have long dominated college basketball on the court. The same cannot be said for the sideline. The number of minority coaches in N.C.A.A. Division I is declining. The latest race and gender report card released in 2010 by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport showed that ...
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Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town (20/May/2012)

One problem with Treece, Kan., is that the ground keeps caving in. It has happened more than a hundred times over the last century. On most occasions, the subsidences — that’s what the scientists call them — are small, like when a sofa-size crater opened up on 10th Street last year. Other times, they are much worse. In 1966, a... Read More

LETTER; Anne Tyler’s Cosmos (20/May/2012)

To the Editor: In her review of “The Beginner’s Goodbye” (May 6), Julia Glass captured my recent feelings about Anne Tyler’s novels: that the characters are too removed from the larger world and that things are a bit too easy for them. After years of finding Tyler’s works lovely, funny, insightful about the details of... Read More

LETTERS; ‘Turing’s Cathedral’ (20/May/2012)

To the Editor: I was interested to read in William Poundstone’s review of “Turing’s Cathedral,” by George Dyson (May 6), about how my husband, Martin Davis, a distinguished mathematician and logician, and I expressed our opposition to that destructive force, the H-bomb, while Martin was a visiting member at the Institute for... Read More

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Google's Lab of Wildest Dreams

Physicists Anxiously Await News of the ‘God Particle’

NASA Telescope Detects a Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars

Latest Global Events

Trending Events

Amanda Burden, Planning Commissioner, Is Remaking New York City

Alex Kurtzman Directs Chris Pine in ‘People Like Us’

OP-ED COLUMNIST; Here Comes Nobody

Revisiting a Decline in Minority College Basketball Coaches

Digital Future Stories

Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town (20/May/2012)

LETTER; Anne Tyler’s Cosmos (20/May/2012)

LETTERS; ‘Turing’s Cathedral’ (20/May/2012)

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