Frustrated by a battle to open a store in New York City, Wal-Mart’s chief said, “I don’t think it’s worth the effort.”

While I was in Santa Fe earlier this week, I spent some time at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture researching Native American weaving, basketry, and ceramics patterns for the book. Pretty much every culture on Earth makes patterns—on walls, objects, or…

When the actor Morgan Freeman was growing up in Greenwood, Mississippi, there was only one movie theatre in the town.

China, Brazil and members of the EU have weighed the potential risks and outlawed chemicals found in US loaves

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The "Me" generation in the United States is a term referring to the baby boomers generation and the self-involved qualities that some people associate with it. The 1970s were dubbed the "Me decade" by writer Tom Wolfe; Christopher Lasch was another writer…

Wharton professor Adam Grant just unraveled one of the most pervasive myths about success out there.

The National goes undercover to investigate some of Apple's controversial business practices including allegations of overpriced repair charges and the battery/slowdown scandal.

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When, in early-1986, Disney executives decided to change the noscript of their upcoming animated feature from 'Basil of Baker Street' to the l...

The China Central Television recent broadcast of V for Vendetta, in which an anarchist rebels against a totalitarian government and persuades the people to rule themselves, has stunned viewers and raised hopes that China is loosening censorship.

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U2 debuts at No. 33 as featured on Kendrick Lamar's "XXX."

Utah court allows Barbara Bagley to seek damages from herself following fatal car crash which killed her husband

“The notion is absurd,” a sandwich expert testified.

A Buddhist statue was meant to simply ward off trash and graffiti on a rough Oakland corner. But it became a community gathering place for the area's Vietnamese immigrants, who turned the site into a beautiful shrine. #globalnation

In 1970, when originally offered the lead role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by director Mel Stuart , the great  Gene Wilder ac...

Long established as the premier portal for sound, your ears are facing increased competition from emerging techniques for transmission through your skeleton.

2000 American adventure drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis

Scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a supervoid: an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across