October 17, 2006

The fire department will remember its greatest lost before 9/11, a fire that killed 12 firefighters.

Barack Obama, the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is a rare politician who can actually write, as his new memoir shows.

Balancing theater and preservation in the renovation of a historic landmark in Harlem.

Muslim fury over Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on Islam has brought a new level of threat to an already shrinking Christian population.

Rampant crime is robbing Latin America of up to 8 percent from national economic growth, economists and World Bank officials say.

Electronic record-keeping is making expungement of criminal records much harder to accomplish.

There have been clusters of cases in which children have prematurely developed signs of puberty, though the causes are varied.

When Tom Glavine woke up Monday to see rain pelting his hotel-room windows, he knew: another 24 hours to think about the most unusual postseason of his 20-year career.

An intriguing feature of political debates in New York is the way they are shown on television at hours when few people are watching.

Lionized from Harvard to Beijing, Shing-Tung Yau learns that stardom has its price.

Walt Disney plans to curtail the use of its name and characters with food items that do not meet new nutritional standards.

An options grant made years ago to the new chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, Stephen J. Hemsley, is raising questions.