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Big 12 Conference fans feel anxiety and frustration

Big 12 Conference: Texas A&M withdrew from the conference earlier this month, upset at rival Texas' $247 million cable television deal with ESPN that does not have to be shared with other conference members.
'What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?'

An exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., featuring vitamin donuts and President Nixon's last White House breakfast shows the historic influence of the government on what we eat.
GOP candidates in the Tea Party crosshairs

The Tea Party movement is taking aim at Republican incumbents, including Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. Olympia Snow of Maine, and Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Will it succeed in unseating them?
Qualities that could solve America's budget crisis

Among the qualities: 'attunement' and equipoise. America's budget crisis won't be solved through 'book smarts' alone.
DOMA: Was the Obama administration only pretending to defend it?

A conservative legal scholar, testifying to a House subcommittee, says the Justice Department sowed the seeds for the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act even as it publicly defended it.
Caravaggio painting not actually painted by Caravaggio

Caravaggio fans were no doubt disappointed when scholars announced that the 'Martyrdom of St. Lawrence,' initially thought to be the work of Caravaggio, was likely painted by one of his followers.
The Wolfman: movie review

Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins star in this brooding remake of the 1940s horror classic, ‘The Wolf Man.’
Africa's continental divide: land disputes

African land reform, plot by plot, may be the foundation for solving so much else – from famine to poverty to genocide.
Gray water's grass roots

In a grass-roots effort, a Los Angeles community pushes the plant-saving practice of reusing water from showers, baths, sinks, and washers.
Pearl Harbor Day 2009: three enduring mysteries

On Pearl Harbor Day 2009, here is a look at lingering questions such as: How did the Japanese fleet get so close to Hawaii without being spotted?
The cake of good hope

After years of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, the $6 confection is a store-bought miracle.
Kansas pol seeks one 'great white hope.' Experience necessary.
Home prices at record highs in six US cities
Barney Frank: Happy ending possible despite economic mess
Steadfast, Mumbai begins picking up the pieces

Witnesses return defiantly to a favored haunt, amid dismay at massive security failures.
Review: 'Ballast'

Drama set in a Mississippi Delta township follows the life of a single mother and her son who struggle to subsist.
When political lawn signs shout too loudly

The size of the political message has become an issue, pitting freedom of speech vs. local codes.
"When We Were Romans"

A 9-year-old tells of life on the lam in Rome.
New in theaters

In 'Dark Matter,' starring Meryl Streep, brilliant minds spar in academic debates. But 'Smart People,' with Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, and Sarah Jessica Parker, could have used more intelligence.
When Robert Frost met Khrushchev

This genre-bending bio-novel views Frost’s life through the lens of his last year and his 1962 trip to Russia.
When Robert Frost met Khrushchev

This genre-bending bio-novel considers Frost's life through the lens of his last year and his 1962 trip to Russia.
She fell in love with a stereotype…

He longed to be American as much as she wanted to be Indian. Can this family be saved?
She longs for India as much as he yearns to become an American

'The Konkans' tells the story of a cross-cultural misalliance.