The past year saw some Lawrence residents dispatched to the war zones of Iraq. There were bitter divisions in a presidential election and a controversial ban on cigarette smoking in the city’s public ...

Canadian bear researcher Charlie Russell knew it was dangerous to set up shop in Kamchatka—a frontier of lawless poachers, ruthless kingpins, and 10,000 wild grizzlies. But when up to 20 of his ...

Dec. 18, 2004 — The Food and Drug Administration says a large study has shown no increased survival among patients taking a newly approved drug against lung cancer. The drug, called Iressa, is ...

EVANSVILLE — When the great snowstorm of 2004 slammed into the Tri-State, forecaster Christine Wielgos was hunkered down at the National Weather Service’s Paducah, Kentucky, office trying to keep ...

Dec. 23, 2004 — The Food and Drug Administration has issued interim guidelines on the use of painkillers, in light of recent studies showing some may be harmful. While many experts say painkillers ...

Private equity firm Veritas said it agreed to acquire DynCorp International, which provides aviation maintenance, personal security and training for law enforcement agencies and the U.S. government, ...

A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.

The race for king of the 11 p.m. newscast in Los Angeles just got more interesting. For the first time in 11 years, KABC-TV Channel 7 came close to tying KNBC-TV Channel 4 for first place in local ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the cabinet on 27 December that it holds the key to reconstructing and stabilizing the war-torn country (see news items below). "The people of Afghanistan have big ...

The voices of religion are more prominent and influential than they have been for many decades. Researchers, religious and otherwise, need to come to terms with this, while noting that some dogma is ...